Marble vs Egg - What's the difference?
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(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.
(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
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A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.
To throw eggs at.
To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between marble and egg
is that marble is (uncountable) a rock of crystalline limestone while egg is (uncountable) the contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.In countable|lang=en terms the difference between marble and egg
is that marble is (countable) a small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games while egg is (countable) the egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.As nouns the difference between marble and egg
is that marble is (uncountable) a rock of crystalline limestone while egg is (zoology|countable) an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.As verbs the difference between marble and egg
is that 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 while egg is to throw eggs at or egg can be to encourage, incite.As an adjective marble
is made of, or resembling, marble.marble
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
See also
* ("marble" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
*egg
English
(wikipedia egg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Katrina G. Claw
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Verb
(en verb)- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.