Fish vs Marble - What's the difference?
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(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature , Volume IV:
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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(countable) A period of time spent fishing.
(countable) An instance of seeking something.
(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
(uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
(countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
(countable, poker slang) A bad poker player.
(countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(countable, nautical) A torpedo.
* 1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:
(zoology) A polyphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
# Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
# Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
# Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
## Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
## Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
(cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
To attempt to gain.
(nautical) To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).
* 1970 , James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815 , Wordsworth (1998), page 143:
(uncountable) A rock of crystalline limestone.
* 1751 , (Thomas Morell) (librettist), :
(countable) A small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games.
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:
* 1899 , Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor , volume 1, page 106:
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:
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),
* 1904 , Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture for the year 1903 , page 309:
* 2004 , Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of kitchen history , page 684:
To become interlaced with fat.
* 1999 , Kathleen Jo Ryan, Deep in the heart of Texas: Texas ranchers in their own words , page 99:
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Made of, or resembling, marble.
(figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.
In countable terms the difference between fish and marble
is that fish is an instance of seeking something while marble is a small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games.In uncountable terms the difference between fish and marble
is that fish is a card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank while marble is a rock of crystalline limestone.In intransitive terms the difference between fish and marble
is that fish is to attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects 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 fish and marble
is that fish is to try to find something other than fish in (a body of water) 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 a proper noun Fish
is {{surname|lang=en}.As an adjective marble is
made of, or resembling, marble.fish
English
{{ picdic , image=Clupea harengus (Pieni).jpg , detail1= , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
- Salmon is a fish .
- The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.
- The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.
- We have many fish in our aquarium.
- The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes , it is wisest for us to conform.
- The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
- The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
- The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
Usage notes
The collective plural of fish'' is always ''fish'' in the UK; in the US, ''fishes'' is encountered as well. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is ''fishes .Synonyms
* (potential swindling victim) mark * (card game) Go Fish * (bad poker player) donkey, donkDerived terms
{{der3, big fish in a small pond , bony fish , cold fish , dragonfish , drink like a fish , fish and chips , fish bowl/fishbowl , fishbrain , fishcake , fisher , fisherman , fish-eating grin , fish finger , fishful , fishgig , fish hook/fishhook , fishkill , fish ladder, fishway , fishless , fishlike , fishling , fishly , fishmeal , fishmonger , fishmoth , fish out of water , fish paste/fishpaste , fish pond/fishpond , fishpound , fishpox , fishroom , fish sauce , fishskin , fishskin disease , fish slice , fish supper , fishtail , fish tank/fishtank , fish tape , fishwife , fishwoman , fishworm , fishy , , goatfish , goldfish , have other fish to fry , like shooting fish in a barrel , jellyfish , lumpfish , overfish , queer fish , sailfish , shellfish , silverfish , starfish , neither fish nor fowl , surgeonfish , swim like a fish , there's plenty more fish in the sea , tuna fish}}Hyponyms
* (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills) Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes * (food) seafoodSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(es)- She went to the river to fish for trout.
- They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
- Why are you fishing through my things?
- He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
- The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
- The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
- the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.
Synonyms
* (try to catch a fish) angle, drop in a line * (try to find something) rifle, rummage * angleDerived terms
{{der3, fishable , fisher , fishery , fishline , fishnet/fishnet stockings , fish out}}Etymology 3
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.
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
* * * * * * * * *Verb
(marbl)- 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.
- In the operation of marbling the edges of the books, [...]
- 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 .
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- We've gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle. They seem to marble better.
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, marbelizeDerived terms
* marblingAdjective
(en adjective)- a marble''' mantel; '''marble paper
- a marble heart