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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marrow
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bone marrow
▪ a bone marrow transplant
chill sb to the bone/chill sb to the marrow/chill sb’s blood (=frighten sb a lot)
▪ He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood.
chilled to the bone/marrow (=extremely cold)
▪ Come and sit by the fire – you look chilled to the bone.
marrow bone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bone
▪ A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant.
▪ His only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant.
▪ Chemotherapy worked on cancer but was destroying her bone marrow, so treatment had to be altered.
▪ The treatment was first tested in patients who received transplants of bone marrow.
▪ Are they floating aimlessly, or have they migrated to his bone marrow, where they belong?
▪ The generation of blood cells takes place primarily in the bone marrow and spleen.
▪ In adults, normal bone marrow contains largely fat and therefore has a high signal.
donor
▪ An international search for a bone marrow donor led to Janet Pope, a doctor's receptionist from Princes Risborough.
▪ The Anthony Nolan Research Centre manages the world's largest register of potential bone marrow donors.
transplant
▪ A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant.
▪ Growth hormones and bone marrow transplants have been tried with little gain, said Shapiro.
▪ His only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant.
▪ He received two blood transfusions after a bone marrow transplant and wanted the name so he could sue the donor.
▪ D' ya think the City Hospital would do bone marrow transplant?
■ VERB
chill
▪ Soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow of her bones, she shivered uncontrollably.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her mentor, Jim Teyechea, pushed Nogales' plight into the national spotlight, before he died of bone marrow cancer.
▪ If it was conditioning it was deep as her bones and marrow.
▪ My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake.
▪ On May 29, a bone marrow test confirmed the worst.
▪ Other potential side effects of colchicine include bone marrow depression, hepatotoxicity, alopecia, neurologic disturbances, and renal damage.
▪ Radium is readily absorbed into the body where it concentrates in the bone marrow and gives off very damaging alpha particles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marrow

Marrow \Mar"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marrowing.] To fill with, or as with, marrow or fat; to glut.

Marrow

Marrow \Mar"row\, n. [OE. marou, mary, maruh, AS. mearg, mearh; akin to OS. marg, D. merg, G. Mark, OHG. marg, marag, Icel. mergr, Sw. merg, Dan. marv, Skr. majjan; cf. Skr. majj to sink, L. mergere. [root]274 Cf. Merge.]

  1. (Anat.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color.

  2. The essence; the best part.

    It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute.
    --Shak.

  3. [OE. maru, maro; -- perh. a different word; cf. Gael. maraon together.] One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. [Scot.]

    Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end.
    --Tusser.

    Marrow squash (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the Boston marrow, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the vegetable marrow, a variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow.

    Spinal marrow. (Anat.) See Spinal cord, under Spinal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marrow

late 14c., from Old English mearg "marrow," earlier mærh, from Proto-Germanic *mazga- (cognates: Old Norse mergr, Old Saxon marg, Old Frisian merg, Middle Dutch march, Dutch merg, Old High German marg, German Mark "marrow"), from PIE *mozgo- "marrow" (cognates: Sanskrit majjan-, Avestan mazga- "marrow," Old Church Slavonic mozgu, Lithuanian smagenes "brain"). Figurative sense of "inmost or central part" is attested from c.1400.

Wiktionary
marrow

Etymology 1 n. 1 (lb en uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells. 2 (lb en countable) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash. 3 The essence; the best part. Etymology 2

alt. 1 (context Geordie informal English) A friend, pal, buddy, mate. 2 (context Scotland English) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. n. 1 (context Geordie informal English) A friend, pal, buddy, mate. 2 (context Scotland English) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.

WordNet
marrow
  1. n. the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones [syn: bone marrow]

  2. any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh [syn: marrow squash, vegetable marrow]

  3. very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones [syn: bone marrow]

  4. large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins [syn: vegetable marrow]

  5. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]

Wikipedia
Marrow

Marrow may refer to:

Marrow (novel)

Marrow is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Reed published in 2000.

Marrow (band)

Marrow is an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The band consists of three former members of the Chicago band Kids These Days, as well as one new member.

Marrow (comics)

Marrow (Sarah), is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men franchise. She is a mutant whose bones grow out of her skin and can be removed from her body, providing her with potential knives and clubs as well as body armor.

As a child, Marrow was taken in by the Morlocks, a band of grotesque-looking mutants who hid in tunnels beneath New York City. As a young adult, she formed the violent splinter cell Gene Nation until, under the orders of Morlock leader Callisto, she joined the X-Men to redeem herself. She made progress controlling her powers and learning a moral code, but eventually fell in with the paramilitary group Weapon X.

As a child, Marrow first appeared in Cable #15 (September 1994) and was created by writer Jeph Loeb and artist David Brewer. However, Uncanny X-Men writer Scott Lobdell and artist Joe Madureira defined her powers and temperament.

She has shown herself to be a staunch team player (more-so with the X-Men than with either Gene Nation or Weapon X) who is prepared to risk her own life to protect those of her teammates. Despite her apparent disdain for humanity, she has revealed that she would like nothing more than to be able to fit in with them and be happy.

While there have been occasions that this has happened for her (in an art gallery with Colossus and immediately following her genetic redesign by Weapon X), they have never lasted long and only served to increase her anger and bitterness towards the world when they have been taken away from her.

Marrow (vegetable)

A marrow is a vegetable, the mature fruit of certain Cucurbita pepo cultivars. The immature fruit of the same cultivars is called courgette (in the British Isles, the Netherlands and New Zealand) or zucchini (in North America, Australia, Germany and Austria). Like courgettes, marrows are oblong, green squash, but marrows have a firm rind and a neutral flavour ("overgrown when picked and insipid when cooked..."), making them useful as edible casings for mincemeat and other stuffings. They can be stored for several weeks after harvest (like pumpkins and other winter squash), to be processed for food when required. They are a popular vegetable in Great Britain and areas with significant British influence, though their popularity is waning in favor of immature summer squash like courgette.

Giant marrows are grown competitively in the United Kingdom where the term "marrow" is often restricted to the striped, thick-skinned cultivar.

In a culinary context, marrows are treated as a vegetable; usually cooked and presented as a savory dish or accompaniment. Botanically, marrows are fruit, a type of botanical berry, being the swollen ovary of the marrow flower. Marrows, like all squash, have their ancestry in the Americas.

Usage examples of "marrow".

I rose out of the long traditions of Europe where artistry runs deep in the marrow of the selected few.

His limbs appeared to possess hardly any vitality, so benumbed were they by the icy chill that had entered into the very marrow of his bones.

The first course, put on the tables all at once, as were all the succeeding courses, consisted of tiny pasties full of codfish liver or beef marrow, a brewet of sliced pork in a spicy sauce, greasy fritters of more beef marrow, eels in a ginger-flavored aspic, bream fillets in a watery green sauce of herbs, a baron of tough and stringy beef for each pair of diners, boiled shoulders of pork and veal, and, to bring the course to an end, a seven-foot sturgeon, cooked whole and served with the skin replaced, surrounded by bowls of a sauce that Bass thought would have made a Mexican or Korean homesick, so hot was it.

Flags looped around the ground, hardly a movement from their tips, and this year the flags of the Allies were hung in a brave display over the horticultural tent where some of the largest marrows, greenest beans and most tender potatoes in the South of England were displayed for judgement, surrounded by vivid flowers from country gardens.

There was enough for the mermaidens to swim in, and for Marrow and Gloha to wash in.

Add also a quarter of a pound of beef marrow cut in small pieces and parboiled in salted water.

I may die from the complications of this treatment or if the reinfused bone marrow fails to function normally.

Although she had only bought a half stone of flour, a pound of bacon ends, a pound of hough meat, a marrow bone and a few dry goods, each mile she walked seemed to add to the weight, and she had just passed the Rosier village and was within the last mile home when she smelt the smoke.

Poweressence, which was not a cult, not a religion, not a fraud, but as Wilbur Smot understood in the very marrow of his soul, the absolute truth.

We now use a special type called stromal cells that all adults carry in their femoral marrow.

And while I was speeding townwards along the rails Judkin would be plodding his way to the vicarage bearing a vegetable marrow and a basketful of dahlias.

To unenchanted eyes this maiden is revealed to be the very lees and slag of womanhood, ugly beneath description, diseased to the marrow, so repulsive that passing toads do retch and gag.

I was going to have to get him back to Oxford without making the verger suspicious, get him to Infirmary, and then try to get back here to finish searching the cathedral and probably end up in a marrows field halfway to Liverpool.

Even such good harvest of the things that flee Earth offers her subjected, and they choose Rather of Bacchic Youth one beam to drink, And warm slow marrow with the sensual wink.

I mean, sure, it knocked the stuff out of me, scared the soul out one ear and back in the other, hit my wind and tore my gut, broke the bones and shook the wits, but, but, but, wife, but, but, but, clear sweet Meg, Meggy, Megan, I wish you were here, it might tamp the tobacco tars out of your half-ass lungs and bray the mossy graveyard backbreaking meanness from your marrow.