granite

granit

Genellikle gri veya pembe olan, binalarda ve mutfak tezgâhlarında kullanılan çok sert kaya.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A very hard rock, often gray or pink, used for buildings and kitchen surfaces.

• The steps are made of granite.
• They chose pink granite for the kitchen counter.
• Huge blocks of granite were brought from the quarry.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: granite countertop, granite rock, polished granite

sağlamlık, sertlik

Bir kişinin karakterindeki büyük güç ve dayanıklılık.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Great strength or toughness in someone’s character.

• There was granite in her character.
• His granite resolve carried him through the crisis.
• Beneath that gentle manner lay granite.

Eş anlamlılar: toughness, strength

Zıt anlamlılar: weakness

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: granite resolve, granite in someone