granite

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Geologygranitegran‧ite /ˈɡrænət/ noun [uncountable] HEGa very hard grey rock, often used in buildingExamples from the Corpusgranite• Bronze on granite base. 6.5m.• Hatchet-faced, tough as the city's granite, Yevdoxia plumped herself down at Anna's side.• At one place, the round shape of an engine protruded from the granite.• Salt water, beaten into a white sea foam, collides into the granite with each swell.• This appears to coincide with the base of the granite batholith and may represent the basal Variscan thrust.• Grit blew off the granite outcroppings and the fields beneath grew nothing but rocks and dust.• The wolframite is scattered extremely thinly throughout the granite.Origin granite (1600-1700) Italian granito, from Latin granum; → GRAIN

单词	granite
释义	granite From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Geologygranitegran‧ite /ˈɡrænət/ noun [uncountable] HEGa very hard grey rock, often used in buildingExamples from the Corpusgranite• Bronze on granite base. 6.5m.• Hatchet-faced, tough as the city's granite, Yevdoxia plumped herself down at Anna's side.• At one place, the round shape of an engine protruded from the granite.• Salt water, beaten into a white sea foam, collides into the granite with each swell.• This appears to coincide with the base of the granite batholith and may represent the basal Variscan thrust.• Grit blew off the granite outcroppings and the fields beneath grew nothing but rocks and dust.• The wolframite is scattered extremely thinly throughout the granite.Origin granite (1600-1700) Italian granito, from Latin granum; → GRAIN
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