a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers, informal Shorter name for Yorkshire pudding, a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties, proper England's largest county. Situated in the north-east England; divided into three ridings, (North, West and East, and The City Of York). Since 1974 for administration purposes local government has used different divisions

A thin, flat or convex slab of hard material such as baked clay or plastic, laid in rows to cover walls, floors, and roofs, A hollow fired clay or concrete block used for building walls, A similar slab or plate of pottery, glazed and often decorated, used for ornamental pavements, revetments to walls, etc.; also, a like slab of porcelain, glazed and plain or decorated; an encaustic tile; also, a slab of stone or marble used with others like it in a pavement or revetment, verb_ cover with tiles, computing To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface), transitive verb_ To cover with tiles, To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated, To cover or provide with tiles

A flat, usually rectangular structure composed of a rigid material, such as wood, glass, or metal, fixed at right angles to a wall or other vertical surface and used to hold or store objects, Something, such as a projecting ledge of rock or a balcony, that resembles such a structure, A thin slab or plank, a piece of marble, slate, wood, or other material, generally long and narrow, fixed horizontally to a wall, and used for supporting small objects; in general, a narrow flat surface, horizontal or nearly so, and raised above a larger surface, as of a floor or the ground

The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal, The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials, creating figures or designs in three dimensions, verb_ create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material, shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it, To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure, transitive verb_ To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave, (Zo”l.) a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures, intransitive verb_ To fashion (stone, bronze, or wood, for example) into a three-dimensional figure, To represent in sculpture, To make sculptures or a sculpture

A bowl used in bowling, A marble used by boys in play

A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf, A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc; a perforation; a rent; a fissure, transitive verb_ To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball, intransitive verb_ To put or propel into a hole, To make a hole in something

A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture, A small hard ball, usually of glass, used in children's games, 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, verb: paint or stain like marble, transitive verb: To mottle and streak (paper, for example) with colors and veins in imitation of marble, To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color