Marbles vs Marbled - What's the difference?
marbles | marbled |
(plural only) Any of several children's games played with small glass balls.
(plural only, usually, in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
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(marble)
Composed of marble; having a marble exterior.
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*:Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears; / Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face / Hath to the marbled mansion all above / Never presented!
Having marbling.
Resembling marble.
(meat) Interlaced with fat.
(marble)
As verbs the difference between marbles and marbled
is that marbles is third-person singular of marble while marbled is past tense of marble.As a noun marbles
is plural of lang=en.As an adjective marbled is
composed of marble; having a marble exterior.marbles
English
(wikipedia marbles)Noun
(head)- Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses, and marbles are among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.
- Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses, and marbles are among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.
- Grandpa's lost his marbles , but at least he still recognizes us.
- Granny's still got all her marbles .
- —Her daddy's crazy. [...] Think she's looking for something?
—Treasure, I expect. That or maybe her daddy's marbles .
