Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made of or covered with marble.
- adjective Having streaks of fat.
- adjective Mottled or streaked like marble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having veins and cloudings like variegated marbles.
- In zoology, variegated with different colors, like marble; dappled; clouded.
- Having the lean and fat properly blended: applied by butchers to meat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Made of, or faced with, marble.
- adjective Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.
- adjective Having small flecks of fat interspered with the muscle; -- of cuts of meat, especially beef. Such marbling improves the flavor of beef for most people.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Composed of
marble ; having a marble exterior. - adjective Having
marbling . - adjective Resembling marble.
- adjective meat Interlaced with fat.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
marble .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble
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Examples
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OMFG I checked the material list on that puppy # 2 & its called marbled fudge glaze.
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Editions includes more than 60 of Leonard's portraits, hand-bound in Japanese marbled silk and leather.
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Editions includes more than 60 of Leonard's portraits, hand-bound in Japanese marbled silk and leather.
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Editions includes more than 60 of Leonard's portraits, hand-bound in Japanese marbled silk and leather.
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The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.
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Do you recall the marbled endpapers in the Spenser that I used to read to you on crisp fall evenings just such as this?
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The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.
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The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.
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The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.
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The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.
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