Alley vs. Marble — What's the Difference?

An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in the older parts of towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée) in a park or garden.A covered alley or passageway, often with shops, may be called an arcade.

Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated, although there are exceptions.

A narrow street or passageway between or behind city buildings.

A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture.

A path between flower beds or trees in a garden or park.

A piece of this rock.

A straight narrow course or track, especially a bowling alley.

A sculpture made from this rock.

Either of the parallel lanes at the sides of a tennis court, which widen the inbounds area for doubles play.

Something resembling or suggesting metamorphic rock, as in being very hard, smooth, or cold

A large playing marble, often used as the shooter.

A small hard ball, usually of glass, used in children's games.

A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.

Marbles (used with a sing. verb) Any of various games played with marbles.

(baseball) The area between the outfielders.

Marbles Slang Common sense; sanity

(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.

Marbling.

(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.

To mottle and streak (paper, for example) with colors and veins in imitation of marble.

(tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.

Composed of metamorphic rock

A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.

Resembling metamorphic rock in consistency, texture, venation, color, or coldness.

A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.

(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.

The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

Statues made from marble.

A glass marble or taw.

(transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.

(intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.

A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.

(transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.

A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.

Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

To lace or be laced throughout.

The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

Made of, or resembling, marble.

A choice taw or marble.

(figurative) Cold; hard; unfeeling.

A narrow street with walls on both sides

A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

A lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins

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; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.

A little ball of glass, marble, porcelain, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.

Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.

A hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material

A small ball of glass that is used in various games

A sculpture carved from marble

Paint or stain like marble;