quarry
IELTS vocabulary1100 vocabularyquar‧ry /ˈkwɒri $ ˈkwɔː-, ˈkwɑː-/ noun (plural quarries)
quarry verb (past tense and past participle quarried, present participle quarrying, third person singular quarries) [transitive]
کان سنگ، لاشه شکار، صید، توده انباشته، شیشه الماسی چهارگوش، اشکار کردن، معدن سنگ، علوم مهندسی: معدن سنگ، عمران: معدن شن و ماسه، معماری: معدن سنگ، قانون فقه: استخراج کردن معدن، ورزش: شکار موردنظر
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Synonyms & Related Wordsquarry[noun]Synonyms: prey, aim, game, goal, objective, prize, victim
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English DictionaryI. quar‧ry1 /ˈkwɒri $ ˈkwɔː-, ˈkwɑː-/
noun (
plural quarries)
[
Sense 1: Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Old French;
Origin: quarriere, from an unrecorded quarre 'square stone', from Latin quadrum 'square']
[
Sense 2: Date: 1400-1500;
Language: Old French;
Origin: cuiree 'inside parts of a killed animal given to the hunting dogs', probably from Late Latin corata, from Latin cor 'heart']
1. [countable] a place where large amounts of stone or sand are dug out of the ground:
a slate quarry2. [singular] the person or animal that you are hunting or chasing:
Briefly, the hunter and his quarry glared at each other. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. quarry2 verb (
past tense and past participle quarried,
present participle quarrying,
third person singular quarries)
[transitive] to dig stone or sand from a quarry
quarry something for something The rock here is quarried for building stones.quarry something from something Chalk is quarried from the surrounding area.—quarrying noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲