Definizione monolingua

marble

marble (third-person singular simple present marbles, present participle marbling, simple past and past participle marbled)

1. (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.
   • 1774, William Hutchinson, An excursion to the lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August, 1773, page 29:

     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.

   • 1899, Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, volume 1, page 106:

     In the operation of marbling the edges of the books, [...]

2. (intransitive) 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:

     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.

3. (transitive) 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), page 157:

     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.

   • 1904, Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture for the year 1903, page 309:

     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.

   • 2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of kitchen history, page 684:

     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).

4. (intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat.
   • 1999, Kathleen Jo Ryan, Deep in the heart of Texas: Texas ranchers in their own words, page 99:

     Weve gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle. They seem to marble better.

   • 1974, Rising cost of meat: hearings before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing and Consumer Relations:

     As we feed these cattle corn their meat marbles. By marbling, I mean the red meat cells are surrounded with fat

   • 1978, Theodore Carroll Byerly, The role of ruminants in support of man:

     ... claims probably stem from people having eaten beef from older, thinner animals which had rarely had enough excess energy in their diet to cause the meat to marble.

marble (plural marbles)

1. (uncountable) A rock of crystalline limestone.
   • 1751, Thomas Morell (librettist), Jephtha:

     Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.

2. (countable) A small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in childrens games.

Definizione dizionario marble

	marmo
	crystalline limestone
	Metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized calcite or dolomite.

	biglia
	spherical ball

	pallina
	spherical ball

bilia

marmoreo

Altri significati:

(transitive) To interlace (meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb) (with fat); to cause (meat) to be interlaced (with fat).

(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.

(intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat.

cause to have the streaked appearance of marble

(countable) A small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games.

(a) marble

(intransitive, of cattle) To have its meat become interlaced with fat.

(intransitive) To 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.

(uncountable) A rock of crystalline limestone.