marble
US: /ˈmɑɹbəɫ/
UK: /mˈɑːbəl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
marble /'mɑ:bl/- danh từ
- đá hoa, cẩm thạch
- (số nhiều) hòn bi
- a game of marbles: một ván bí
- (số nhiều) (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) sự hiểu lý lẽ
- (định ngữ) bằng cẩm thạch; như cẩm thạch
- ngoại động từ
- làm cho có vân cẩm thạch
- a book with marbled efges: sách mép có vân cẩm thạch
- làm cho có vân cẩm thạch
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [U] a type of hard stone that is usually white and often has coloured lines in it. It can be polished and is used in building and for making statues, etc: a slab / block of marble + a marble floor / sculpture
2 [C] a small ball of coloured glass that children roll along the ground in a game
3 (marbles) [U] a game played with marbles: Three boys were playing marbles.
4 (marbles) [pl.] (informal) a way of referring to sb's intelligence or mental ability: He's losing his marbles (= he's not behaving in a sensible way).
Collocation
ADJ.
cool
The hotel is traditionally furnished, with cool marble floors.
| coloured | veined | polished | carved
QUANT.
block, slab
VERB + MARBLE
carve (sth from/in), make sth from/in/(out) of
a statue of Cupid carved in black marble
| quarry
MARBLE + NOUN
quarry
PREP.
in ~
sculptures in polished white marble
Concise dictionary
marbles|marbled|marbling'mɑbl /'mɑːblnoun
+a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
+a small ball of glass that is used in various games
+a sculpture carved from marble
verb
+paint or stain like marble
