Marble
noun
A type of hard stone that is usually white and often has colored lines in it. It's often used in building and for statues.
The statue was made of pure white marble.
Often appears as...
- white marble
- marble statue
noun
A small round glass ball that children play games with.
I lost my favorite marble while playing with my friends.
Often appears as...
- playing marbles
- lose a marble
verb
To give something the look of marble, for example by painting it.
The cake was marbled with chocolate and vanilla.
Often appears as...
- marble cake
- marble effect
noun
Marble is also used to refer to a totally different person or thing but in the same situation.
I was a different marble after the counselling session.
Often appears as...
- different marble
- same marble
noun
A type of hard stone that is usually white and often has colored lines in it. It's often used in building and for statues.
The statue was made of pure white marble.
Often appears as...
- white marble
- marble statue
noun
A small round glass ball that children play games with.
I lost my favorite marble while playing with my friends.
Often appears as...
- playing marbles
- lose a marble
verb
To give something the look of marble, for example by painting it.
The cake was marbled with chocolate and vanilla.
Often appears as...
- marble cake
- marble effect
noun
Marble is also used to refer to a totally different person or thing but in the same situation.
I was a different marble after the counselling session.
Often appears as...
- different marble
- same marble
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Pro Tip 1/3Luxurious Impression
Marble is often associated with wealth and elegance, especially in architecture and sculpture.
The hotel's lobby had an air of opulence with its marble floors.
Pro Tip 2/3Color Variations
While typically white, marble can come in many hues, enhanced by its natural veining.
The marble countertops had swirls of gray and pink.
Pro Tip 3/3Durability
Marble is durable, but also susceptible to staining and scratching, requiring regular maintenance.
Be careful with wine on the marble table as it might stain.
Pro Tip 1/3Luxurious Impression
Marble is often associated with wealth and elegance, especially in architecture and sculpture.
The hotel's lobby had an air of opulence with its marble floors.
Pro Tip 2/3Color Variations
While typically white, marble can come in many hues, enhanced by its natural veining.
The marble countertops had swirls of gray and pink.
Pro Tip 3/3Durability
Marble is durable, but also susceptible to staining and scratching, requiring regular maintenance.
Be careful with wine on the marble table as it might stain.
Pro Tip 1/3Luxurious Impression
Marble is often associated with wealth and elegance, especially in architecture and sculpture.
The hotel's lobby had an air of opulence with its marble floors.
Pro Tip 2/3Color Variations
While typically white, marble can come in many hues, enhanced by its natural veining.
The marble countertops had swirls of gray and pink.
Pro Tip 3/3Durability
Marble is durable, but also susceptible to staining and scratching, requiring regular maintenance.
Be careful with wine on the marble table as it might stain.
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Andrew Blum: What is the...
the blue marble picture, and it's similarly meant to suggest, I think, that we can't really understand it as a whole. We're always sort of small in the face of its expanse. So if there was this world and this screen, and if there was the physical world around me, I couldn't ever get them together in the same place.
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Why the universe seems...
A marble statue could wave its hand at us; the atoms that make up its crystalline structure are all vibrating back and forth anyway. Because there are so many of them, and because there's no agreement among them in their preferred direction of movement, the marble, as we see it in Middle World, stays rock steady.
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Parthenon Battle PIPE...
is not going to happen you can't lend something to a sort of government or country that doesn't recognize your ownership of them as far as the British Museum is concerned it has legal title to the marbles moreover it has a mission as a museum of all world cultures what the British Museum can almost uniquely
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President Barack Obama...
admirer of your work for a very long time because you've been a great educator as well as a great naturalist what are the prospects for this blue marble that we live on if we find ways of generating and storing power from renewable resources we will make the
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Divers Fight the...
successful in the invaded range they reproduce very early in life so they reach maturity they grow very rapidly that are capable of dispersing large distances during their egg and marble phase which ride ocean currents a species that has venomous spines they
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What happened to...
Therefore, scientists are convinced that a world made of antimatter would look, feel, and smell just like our world. In this antiworld, we may find antiwater, antigold, and, for example, an antimarble. Now imagine that a marble and an antimarble
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Design at the...
One is synthetic, the other organic. One is imposed on the environment, the other creates it. One is designed for nature, the other is designed by her. Michelangelo said that when he looked at raw marble, he saw a figure struggling to be free.
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The beauty of being a...
You can even lose your marbles. You can be standing dead center in the middle of your failure and still, I'm only here to tell you, you are so beautiful. Your story deserves to be heard, because you, you rare and phenomenal misfit,
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Earthrise: The Story of...
the heavens the earth was the only thing in the entire universe of all this inky black void the earth was there with a beautiful blue hue to it the blue marble that's that's what it looked like a blue marble a blue anga
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DJing to the sounds of...
they're going to push our understanding forward for how we share this amazing blue marble with all these incredible animals after all the whole world is singing we might as well tune in thanks
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Andrew Blum: What is the...
the blue marble picture, and it's similarly meant to suggest, I think, that we can't really understand it as a whole. We're always sort of small in the face of its expanse. So if there was this world and this screen, and if there was the physical world around me, I couldn't ever get them together in the same place.
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
A marble statue could wave its hand at us; the atoms that make up its crystalline structure are all vibrating back and forth anyway. Because there are so many of them, and because there's no agreement among them in their preferred direction of movement, the marble, as we see it in Middle World, stays rock steady.
Video examples
Parthenon Battle PIPE...
is not going to happen you can't lend something to a sort of government or country that doesn't recognize your ownership of them as far as the British Museum is concerned it has legal title to the marbles moreover it has a mission as a museum of all world cultures what the British Museum can almost uniquely
Video examples
President Barack Obama...
admirer of your work for a very long time because you've been a great educator as well as a great naturalist what are the prospects for this blue marble that we live on if we find ways of generating and storing power from renewable resources we will make the
Video examples
Divers Fight the...
successful in the invaded range they reproduce very early in life so they reach maturity they grow very rapidly that are capable of dispersing large distances during their egg and marble phase which ride ocean currents a species that has venomous spines they
Video examples
What happened to...
Therefore, scientists are convinced that a world made of antimatter would look, feel, and smell just like our world. In this antiworld, we may find antiwater, antigold, and, for example, an antimarble. Now imagine that a marble and an antimarble
Video examples
Design at the...
One is synthetic, the other organic. One is imposed on the environment, the other creates it. One is designed for nature, the other is designed by her. Michelangelo said that when he looked at raw marble, he saw a figure struggling to be free.
Video examples
The beauty of being a...
You can even lose your marbles. You can be standing dead center in the middle of your failure and still, I'm only here to tell you, you are so beautiful. Your story deserves to be heard, because you, you rare and phenomenal misfit,
Video examples
Earthrise: The Story of...
the heavens the earth was the only thing in the entire universe of all this inky black void the earth was there with a beautiful blue hue to it the blue marble that's that's what it looked like a blue marble a blue anga
Video examples
DJing to the sounds of...
they're going to push our understanding forward for how we share this amazing blue marble with all these incredible animals after all the whole world is singing we might as well tune in thanks
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Ruth Reichl
American Chef
The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.
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Brunello Cucinelli
Italian Designer
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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Gurpreet Ghuggi
Indian Actor
Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.
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Phillips Brooks
American Clergyman
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Nancy Pelosi
American Politician
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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Ben Elliot
English Businessman
For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
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Michelangelo
Italian Artist
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Novelist
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Ruth Reichl
American Chef
The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.
Quote examples
Brunello Cucinelli
Italian Designer
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
Quote examples
Gurpreet Ghuggi
Indian Actor
Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.
Quote examples
Phillips Brooks
American Clergyman
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Quote examples
Victor Hugo
French Author
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Quote examples
Nancy Pelosi
American Politician
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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Ben Elliot
English Businessman
For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
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Michelangelo
Italian Artist
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Novelist
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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