Marble vs. Granite

Marblenoun

A rock of crystalline limestone.

Marblenoun

A small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in games and races.

Marblenoun

An artwork made from marble.

Marbleverb

(transitive) 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.

Marbleverb

(intransitive) To get or have 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.

Marbleverb

(transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.

Marbleverb

To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.

Marbleverb

To lace or be laced throughout.

Marbleadjective

Made of, or resembling, marble.

Marbleadjective

(figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.

Marblenoun

A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

Marblenoun

A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.

Marblenoun

A little ball of glass, marble, porcelain, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

Marbleadjective

Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.

Marbleadjective

Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

Marbleverb

To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.

Marblenoun

a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material

Marblenoun

a small ball of glass that is used in various games

Marblenoun

a sculpture carved from marble

Marbleverb

paint or stain like marble;

Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated, although there are exceptions.

Granitenoun

(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.

Granitenoun

Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.

Granitenoun

A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.

Granitenoun

plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz

Granitenoun

something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness);

Granite

Granite () is a coarse-grained igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.