Glass vs Marble - What's the difference?
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(lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
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The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass .
(lb) Glassware.
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A mirror.
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A magnifying glass or telescope.
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(lb) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
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#(lb) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
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A barometer.
*(Louis MacNeice) (1907-1963)
*:The glass is falling hour by hour.
Transparent or translucent.
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(lb) An hourglass.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She would not live / The running of one glass .
To furnish with glass; to glaze.
To enclose with glass.
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
* 1987, John Godber, Bouncers
* 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale
* 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp
(label) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
* 2012 , Halo: First Strike,
*:“The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
* 2000 , Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing , page 95:
To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
(archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
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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.
In uncountable terms the difference between glass and marble
is that glass is glassware while marble is a rock of crystalline limestone.In transitive terms the difference between glass and marble
is that glass is to enclose with glass 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 Glass
is {{surname}.As an adjective marble is
made of, or resembling, marble.glass
English
(wikipedia glass)Noun
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass' sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain ' glass paperweight.}}
Derived terms
* carnival glass * cheval glass * eyeglasses * glassblower * glassblowing * glasses * glassformer * glass frog * glasshouse * glass jaw * glassless * glassmaker * glassware * glasswork * glassworker * glassy * isinglass * looking glass * magnifying glass * spyglassDescendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),Verb
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p. 19:
- JUDD. Any trouble last night?
- LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed .
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- I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed , or viciously assaulted.
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- One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
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- Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
- Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
- Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.
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* 1000 English basic words ----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
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(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