Alabaster vs Marble - What's the difference?
alabaster | marble |
A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
* c. 1596 , ,
* 1867 '', ''Paradiso ,
*:: But like a radiant fillet ran along
*:: So that fire seemed it behind alabaster .
* 1915 , The New York Times , "
(historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
Made of alabaster
Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
(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.
As nouns the difference between alabaster and marble
is that alabaster is a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally while marble is (uncountable) a rock of crystalline limestone.As adjectives the difference between alabaster and marble
is that alabaster is made of alabaster while marble is made of, or resembling, marble.As a verb marble is
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.alabaster
English
(wikipedia alabaster)Alternative forms
* alabastre (obsolete) * alablaster (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene I, lines 89-90
- Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
- Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ?
Canto XV, lines 22-23] (translated by [[w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow])
- Nor was the flame dissevered from its ribbon
Egyptian Antiquities for Metropolitan" (pdf), 15 May
- One of the striking relics found at the tomb, was a Canopic portrait head of Queen Tii, made entirely of alabaster except the eyes and eyebrows, which were inlaid lapis lazuli and osidian.
Adjective
(-)- The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
- An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.
Quotations
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece", lines 418-420 *: With more than admiration he admir’d *:: Her azure veins, her alabaster skin, *:: Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin. * 1611 , King James Version of the Bible, Mark 14:3 *: And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. * before 1887 , Emily Dickinson, "
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" *: Safe in their alabaster chambers *: Untouched by morning, untouched by noon *: Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, *: Rafters of satin, and roof of stone. * 1895 , Katherine Lee Bates, "" *: Thy alabaster cities gleam *: Undimmed by human tears! *
marble
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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