different between granite vs moorstone

English

Etymology

From French granit (“granite”), from Italian granito (“granite”), from granire (“to granulate”), from grano (“grain”), from Latin gr?num (“grain”). Compare granita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æ.n?t/

Noun

granite (countable and uncountable, plural granites)

1. (petrology) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
2. (uncountable, figuratively) Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.

Hyponyms

• (rock): syenite

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• pegmatite, feldspar, quartz, granodiorite

Anagrams

• Geraint, Tangier, angrite, ingrate, tangier, tearing

Italian

Noun

granite f

1. plural of granita

Anagrams

• argenti, girante, ingrate, integra, negarti, negrità, regnati, rigante, ritenga, Tangeri, tingerà

English

Etymology

From moor +? stone.

Noun

moorstone (countable and uncountable, plural moorstones)

1. A type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall. [from 15th c.]
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 176:

     Most of them are what is called moorstone, a kind of granite, but which is so damp that it must, when built in the wall of a house, be lined with brick or other stone.

Anagrams

• room tones