How to pronounce “marble”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone. [from 12th c.]
• (countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. [from 17th c.]
• (in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble. [from 17th c.]
• The marbling in meat.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
• (intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
• (transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
• (intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
• (by extension, figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.
• [Adjective]
• Made of, or resembling, marble.
• (figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.

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