quarry

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.

Verb

1. (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

Verb

To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Conceptos

cantera

presa

extraer

botín

presa del depredador

caza

sacar

arenal

Sinónimos

mine

prey

extract

pit

stone pit

target

fair game

capture

victim

produce

cut

excavate

gravel pit

drill

excavation

game

gold mine

grub

hole

🕳️

pick

⛏️

picking

pillage

plunder

prize

pump

quarryman

recover

slate

spoil

strip mine

swag

tile

unearth

opencast mine

racing course

rock quarry

cut and carry off

begin to talk

stone-pit

subterranean passage

ballast pit

diamond-shaped pane of glass

quarry glass

bag

open-pit mine

booty

break the ice

bring down

broach

career

Traducciones

carrière

Steinbruch

cava

proie

cava di pietra

Beute

preda

λατομείο

pedreira

prooi

presa

pedrera

steengroeve

av

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkwɒɹ.i/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: quarere

Heredado de inglés medio: quyrre

In summary

From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).