Marbled

Word MARBLED
Character 7
Hyphenation mar bled
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Marbled"

What do we mean by marbled?

Made of or covered with marble. adjective

Having streaks of fat. adjective

Mottled or streaked like marble. adjective

Having the lean and fat properly blended: applied by butchers to meat.

Having veins and cloudings like variegated marbles.

In zoology, variegated with different colors, like marble; dappled; clouded.

Made of, or faced with, marble. adjective

Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. adjective

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. adjective

Composed of marble; having a marble exterior. adjective

Having marbling. adjective

Resembling marble. adjective

Interlaced with fat. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of marble. verb

Patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble adjective

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.

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.

To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.

(of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.

(by extension) To lace or be laced throughout.

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The word "marbled" in example sentences

OMFG I checked the material list on that puppy # 2 & its called marbled fudge glaze. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Editions includes more than 60 of Leonard's portraits, hand-bound in Japanese marbled silk and leather. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Do you recall the marbled endpapers in the Spenser that I used to read to you on crisp fall evenings just such as this? ❋ Unknown (2005)

He used his language's name for the bird called the marbled wood-quail in English. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Species that depend on big stands of old growth, such as marbled murrelets and spotted owls, would have much less room to roam.

Logging and road building remain significant threats to mature forest habitat and to some species such as marbled murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus), cavity nesters and raptors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sometimes the edges are "marbled," and this is an interesting process to watch. ❋ Eva March Tappan (1892)

Accepting this theory as in the main correct, we perceive that the very same circulatory process which, in its spasms of activity, gives rise to spots, produces in its regular course the singular "marbled" appearance, for the recording of which we are no longer at the mercy of the fugitive or delusive impressions of the human retina. ❋ Unknown (1874)

And yet it bore some resemblance to a peacock, with its long heavy tail and wings speckled and ocellated in a very striking manner, and something like the "marbled" feathers that adorn the peacock's back. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

His book contains a lovely recipe for vanilla 'marbled' with champagne rhubarb: a rhubarb ripple. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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