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📖 Определения и значения для слова marble

📒 a type of hard stone that is usually white and often has coloured lines in it. It can be polished (= made smooth and shiny by rubbing) and is used in building and for making statues, etc.

  • a slab/block of marble
  • a marble floor/sculpture
  • a statue of Cupid carved in black marble

📒 a small ball of coloured glass that children roll along the ground in a game

📒 a game played with marbles

  • Three boys were playing marbles.

📒 a way of referring to somebody’s intelligence or mental ability

  • He's losing his marbles (= he's not behaving in a sensible way).
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