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Definition: Marl |
MarlNoun1. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "marl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A crumbly deposit consisting of calcium carbonate and clay which may be added as an amendment to soil deficient in lime. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | To run together and draft into one, two slubbings or rovings of different colour or lustre. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Marl Latin, argill'; German, mrgel; Spanish and Italian, marga; Armoric, marg; Irish, Marla; Welsh, marl. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A calcareous clay, or intimate mixture of clay and particles of calcite or dolomite, usually fragments of shells. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. An old term loosely applied to a variety of materials, most of which occur as loose, earthy deposits consisting chiefly of an intimate mixture of clay and calcium carbonate, formed under marine or esp. freshwater conditions; specif. an earthy substance containing 35% to 65% clay and 65% to 35% carbonate. Marl is usually gray; it is used esp. as a fertilizer for acid soils deficient in lime. In the Coastal Plain area of Southeastern United States, the term has been used for calcareous clays, silts, and sands, esp. those containing glauconite (greensand marls); and for newly formed deposits of shells mixed with clay b. A soft, grayish to white, earthy or powdery, usually impure, calcium carbonate precipitated on the bottoms of present-day freshwater lakes and ponds, largely through the chemical action of aquatic plants, or forming deposits that underlie marshes, swamps, and bogs that occupy the sites of former (glacial) lakes. The calcium carbonate may range from 90% to less than 30% . Syn:bog lime c. A term occasionally used (as in Scotland) for a compact, impure,argillaceous limestone. Etymol: French marle. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In many places the value of land has been much augmented by the application of marl. Treating of this article in a practical way, it may be divided into shell-marl and earth-marl. Shell-marl is composed of animal shells dissolved; earth-marl is also fossil. The color of the latter is various, its hardness being sometimes soft and ductile, like clay; sometimes hard and solid, like stone; and sometimes it is extended into thin beds, like slate. Shellmarl is easily distinguished by the shells, which always appear in it; but the similarity betwixt earth-marl and many other fossil substances, renders it difficult to distinguish them.
Shell-marl is very different in its nature from clayey and stone marls, and, from its effects upon the soil, is commonly classed among the animal manures: it does not dissolve with water as the other marls do. It sucks it up, and swells with it like a sponge. dr. Home says, that it takes six times more of acids to saturate it than any of the other marls which he had met with. But the greatest difference betwixt the shell-marl and the other marls consists in this, the shell-marl contains oils.
This marl, it would seem from the qualities which it possesses, promotes vegetation in all the different ways. It increases the food of plants; it communicates to the soil a power of attracting this food from the air; it enlarges the pasture of plants; and it prepares the vegetable food for entering their roots.
See also: List of minerals
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Marl."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Land | Soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag. |
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Crosswords: Marl |
| English words defined with "marl": Clay marl ♦ Gault ♦ Marlaceous, Marled, Marling, marlite, Marlpit, marlstone, marly ♦ Shell marl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "marl": barro ♦ cowshut, cushat marl ♦ greensand marl ♦ Staffordian Series ♦ torrents, trihydrocalcite. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "marl": Lithomarge ♦ marlite. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Marl - Porträt einer Stadt (1964) | |
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| "Marl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Marl" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.82% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "marl": Clay marl ♦ shell marl. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "marl": marl-hole. | |
Ending with "marl": chalky-marl. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
marl | 52 |
b marl | 17 |
marley marl | 14 |
inn marl | 7 |
marl rechtsanwalt | 6 |
einkaufen marl | 5 |
marl germany | 5 |
barbie marl | 4 |
group linux marl user | 3 |
lake marl | 3 |
erodibility index marl | 3 |
marl soil | 3 |
cattery creek marl | 2 |
led marl | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "marl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tokë (coat, continent, country, deck, dirt, domain, earth, Glebe, ground, holding, land, pool, shore, soil, stead, Terra, terrain), argjilë për çimento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كسا بحبل ذو طاقين, مرل سمد الأرض بالمرل, المرل طين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | торя с мергел, варовикова глина, мергел, белопръстница, пръст (clay, clod, digit, dirt, earth, finger, hand, mould, soil, toe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 石灰泥. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slín. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mosekalk (bog line), mergeljord (marly soil), mergel (bog line, Breton ameliorant, lithothamnion, loam), marmorere (marble, marbling, moireing, watering of a cloth, water-marking), art af langnaeset punggraevling (western barred bandicoot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mergelgrond (marly soil), mergel (bog line, loam), westelijke spitsneusbuideldas (western barred bandicoot), westelijke bandicoot (western barred bandicoot), samenlopen van gekleurde lonten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | merkeli (bog line, loam, marly soil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marne (marly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mergeln, Mergel (bog line, loam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μάργα ελών (bog line), μάργα (loam), μαργαρώδης γή (marly soil), πηραμελής του Bougainville (western barred bandicoot), ζασπέ, λιπαντικό χώμα, αργιλοασβεστώδες έδαφος (marly soil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | márga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | marna (loam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | marley (plasticine), cur marley er, crayaghey, cray sliggeragh, cray lhiassee, cray eayil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arlmay marga (bog line, loam, loamy, malm). (various references) marnã. (various references) мергель (malm). (various references) m rla. (various references) lapor. (various references) marga (loam). (various references) märgel (bog line, Breton ameliorant, lithothamnion, loam). (various references) marn, kireçli toprak ile gübrelemek, kireçli toprak, halatı ince halatla sarmak. (various references) мергель. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Perameles bougainville. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "marl": marled, marlier, marliest, marlin, marline, marlines, marlinespike, marlinespikes, marling, marlings, marlins, marlinspike, marlinspikes, marlite, marlites, marlitic, marls, marlstone, marlstones, marly. (additional references) | |
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"Marl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: larl, maal, maar, Madl, mael, Magrill, Mahl, malr, maral, marb, marbly, mard, marg, mari, markl, markly, marla, Marle, marli, marlo, marm, maro, marq, marr, maru, marv, marx, mawl, mawr, Merlo, merol, merv, miar, mirl, mirp, mirq, mirtl, mirv, morld, Mrap, mrp, muarl, Murl, murly, myar, narl, nerl, varl, yarl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: arm, lam, lar, mar, ram. | |
-2 letters: al, am, ar, la, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-r" | |
+1 letter: alarm, lamer, larum, malar, marls, marly, molar, moral, mural, realm. | |
+2 letters: alarms, alarum, almner, ambler, amoral, ampler, armful, armlet, blamer, bromal, brumal, calmer, clamor, dermal, flamer, formal, fulmar, glamor, labrum, lamber, larums, lumbar, mailer, malars, malgre, marble, marbly, marcel, marled, marlin, marvel, mauler, medlar, mitral, molars, morale, morals, mortal, morula, murals, normal, palmar, palmer, primal, ramble, ramtil, realms, remail, tramel, umbral, warmly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 6C |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678478 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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