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Bead vs Marble - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between bead and marble

is that bead is to form into a bead while marble is to get 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.

In transitive terms the difference between bead and marble

is that bead is to form into a bead while marble is to cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.

As an adjective marble is

made of, or resembling, marble.

bead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
  • *1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , Penguin 2003, p.115:
  • *:That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads ;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.
  • Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
  • A small round object.
  • #A small round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire.
  • #A small round solid object.
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  • #A small drop of water or other liquid.
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  • #A bubble, in spirits.
  • #A small round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
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  • #*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
  • (lb) A ridge, band, or molding.
  • #A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
  • A knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
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  • A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
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  • Front sight of a gun.
  • Derived terms

    * anal beads * beady * draw a bead on

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form into a bead.
  • The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
  • To apply beads to.
  • She spent the morning beading the gown.
  • To form into a bead.
  • He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.

    Anagrams

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    marble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) A rock of crystalline limestone.
  • * 1751 , (Thomas Morell) (librettist), :
  • Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.
  • (countable) A small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games.
  • Quotations

    * 1871 , Marion Harland, Common sense in the household: a manual of practical housewifery , page 127: *: Veal Marble . Boil a beef-tongue the day before it is to be used, and a like number of pounds of lean veal; [...]

    Derived terms

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    Verb

    (marbl)
  • 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.
  • * 1774 , William Hutchinson, An excursion to the lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August, 1773 , page 29:
  • The small clouds which chequered the sky, as they passed along, spread their flitting shadows on the distant mountains, and seemed to marble them; a beauty which I do not recollect has struck any painter.
  • * 1899 , Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor , volume 1, page 106:
  • In the operation of marbling the edges of the books, [...]
  • To get 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.
  • * 2007 , Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book: Recipes and Techniques , page 125:
  • Scent the entire batch and then color half with the blue colorant. Pour both parts back into your soap pot. Do not stir. Pour in a circular motion into a block mold. The pouring action will cause the soap to marble .
  • To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
  • * 1848 , Samuel D. Martin, in a letter to the Albany Cultivator'', quoted in the ''Fourteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture (for the year 1859; published 1860), page 157:
  • Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier.
  • * 1904 , Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture for the year 1903 , page 309:
  • The Merino sheep is likely to put his weight largely into tallow around the stomach, intestines and on his kidneys, instead of mixing fairly with the meat, instead of marbling the meat.
  • * 2004 , Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of kitchen history , page 684:
  • Either by forcing the lardoon out with a plunger, by pushing it with a knife point, or by trailing it behind the needle, the cook artificially marbles the meat. For French cooks intent on larding, traditionally, the choice fat was the lard gras (pork fat).
  • To become interlaced with fat.
  • * 1999 , Kathleen Jo Ryan, Deep in the heart of Texas: Texas ranchers in their own words , page 99:
  • We've gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle. They seem to marble better.
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  • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "marble") * 1972 , Sondra Gotlieb, The Gourmet’s Canada , page 129: *: The exercising of the cattle causes the fat to marble right through the animal — and much of the flavour is found in the fat. * 1993 , Susan Napier, Winter of Dreams , page 52: *: Was he the reason for the bitterness that seemed to marble her character?

    Synonyms

    * (transitive) marbleize, marbelize

    Derived terms

    * marbling

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of, or resembling, marble.
  • a marble''' mantel; '''marble paper
  • (figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.
  • a marble heart

    See also

    * ("marble" on Wikipedia)

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