Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
granite
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'ænɪt]
Pronunciations of granite
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noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
granite
Meaning:
plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz
Synonyms:
granite
Meaning:
something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness); "a man of granite"
Usage examples
"Oh, if we were only at Granite House!"
They waited, therefore, although they were anxious to be reunited at Granite House.
And yet I cannot understand the appearance of these quadrupeds in a granite cavern."
The shingle was composed of slate, quartz, and granite, named in the order of abundance.
Granite was unquestionably a typical Scottish Terrier, even as we know them at the present day.
I rose from my granite bed and went out to enjoy the magnificent spectacle that lay unrolled before me.
He obtained several specimens, all of much the same type, a close-grained granite rock which weathers red.
However well built and supplied the corral house was, it could not be so comfortable as the healthy granite dwelling.
This tract seemed crushed under a rain of enormous ejected rocks of trap, basalt, granite, and all kinds of igneous rocks.
Its mass of filaments attached it to a table of granite, and there it grew by itself in the midst of the cave's calm waters.
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