Marble vs Cheese - What's the difference?

In uncountable terms the difference between marble and cheese

is that marble is a rock of crystalline limestone while cheese is a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

In countable terms the difference between marble and cheese

is that marble is a small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games while cheese is a piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

As an adjective marble

is made of, or resembling, marble.

As an interjection cheese is

Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

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
Related terms
* marmoreal
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)
Anagrams
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cheese
English
(wikipedia cheese)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) chese, from (etyl) .
Noun
(en-noun)
(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or , i.e. cheesy.

(uncountable, slang) Money.

(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.

(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

(vulgar, slang) Smegma.

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

* 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation

It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia ).

A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(De Quincey)

(Thackeray)

Hyponyms
* See also
Antonyms
* fill (dummy pattern to increase pattern density)
Derived terms
* Abertam cheese * American cheese * apple-cheese * * Asiago cheese * basket cheese * bleu cheese * blue cheese * Bonchester cheese * bread and cheese * brick cheese * Brussels' cheese * Buxton Blue cheese * Cabrales cheese * Caerphilly cheese * Caithness cheese * Camembert cheese * cauliflower cheese * chalk and cheese * Chaumes cheese * Cheddar cheese * cheese and bread * cheese-bail * cheese board, cheese-board, cheeseboard * cheese-borer * cheese-bowl * cheese-box * cheese-bug * cheeseburger * cheese-cement * cheesecake * cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-clout * cheese-cratch * cheese-crate * cheese curds * cheese-cutter, cheesecutter * cheesed, cheesed off * cheese dip * cheese dish * cheese down * cheese fingers * cheese fly * cheese grater * cheese-hake, cheese-heck * cheese-head * cheese-headed * cheese-hoop * cheese-hopper, cheesehopper * cheese-knife * cheese ladder * cheeseling * cheese-maggot * cheesemaker * cheese mite * cheese-moat * cheese-mold, cheese-mould * cheesemonger * cheese off * cheese-pale * cheese-parer * cheese-paring, cheeseparing * cheese-plate * cheese powder * cheese-press * cheeser * cheese rack/cheese-rack * cheese-ramekin * cheese-rennet * cheese-room * cheese-running * cheesery * the Cheeses * cheese-scoop * cheese skipper * cheese slaw * cheese slicer * cheese spread * cheese straw * cheese-taster * cheese-toaster * cheese-tub * cheese-vat * cheese-water * cheesewire * cheesewood * cheese-wring * cheesine * cheesing * cheesy * * Cheshire cheese * Chevington cheese * * Chihuahua cheese * cock cheese * Colby cheese * Colby-Jack cheese * Coon cheese * Cornish Yarg cheese * cotija cheese * cottage cheese * Cougar Gold cheese * cream cheese, cream-cheese * Criollo cheese * Cuba cheese * curd cheese * damson cheese, damson-cheese * Danish Blue cheese * Derby cheese * Dorset Blue Vinney cheese * Dorstone cheese * Double Gloucester cheese * Dovedale cheese * Duberry cheese * Dunlop cheese * Dutch cheese * * Edam cheese * Emmental cheese, Emmenthal cheese * Exmoor Blue cheese * farmer cheese, farmer's cheese * feta cheese * Gloucester cheese * goat cheese * Gouda cheese * Grana Padano cheese * grated cheese * green cheese * * hard cheese * head-cheese, headcheese, head cheese * hoop cheese * Horeb cheese * human cheese * Huntsman cheese * Idiazabal cheese * Ilchester cheese * jack cheese * * Jarlsberg cheese * Lancashire cheese * Leicester cheese * Leidse cheese, Leyden cheese * lemon cheese * Liederkranz cheese * Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese * Lincolnshire Poacher cheese * Lymeswold cheese * macaroni and cheese, macaroni cheese * make butter and cheese of * make cheeses * Manchego cheese * Maytag Blue cheese * mousetrap cheese * mozzarella cheese * Muenster cheese, Munster cheese, * Nabulsi cheese * * nipcheese * * Oaxaca cheese * Oka cheese * Parmesan cheese * pepper jack cheese * pick-cheese * pimento cheese * Pinconning cheese * pizza cheese * pot cheese * processed cheese * Provel cheese * rat cheese * Red Leicester cheese * Red Windsor cheese * ricotta cheese * romano cheese * ruen cheese * sage-cheese * Sage Derby cheese * * Sakura cheese * say cheese * Shropshire Blue cheese * Single Gloucester cheese * slip cheese * smoked cheese * sour milk cheese * Stilton cheese * Stinking Bishop cheese * store cheese * string cheese * Swaledale cheese * Swiss cheese * Testouri cheese * Teviotdale cheese * Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese * tip-cheese * toad-cheese, toad's cheese * Tyrolean grey cheese * * * Waterloo cheese * Wensleydale cheese * White Stilton cheese * Yunnan cheese * Zamorano cheese
See also
* (wikipedia) * * butter * cream * milk * turophile * yogurt
Verb
(chees)
To prepare curds for making cheese.

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Interjection

(photography)

Say "cheese "! ... and there we are!

Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .
Noun
(-)
(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

Derived terms
* big cheese * sub-cheese
Etymology 3

Verb
(chees)
(slang) To stop; to refrain from.

(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

Derived terms
* cheese it * cheesed off
Etymology 4
From cheesy.
Verb
(chees)
(gaming, slang) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter

You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

(gaming) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games)

It's not every day you can see someone defend a cheese maneuver with a planetary fortress and win the game without using a single unit.

Synonyms
* (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game) rush, zerg 1000 English basic words