quarry
US: /ˈkwɔɹi/
UK: /kwˈɒɹi/
UK: /kwˈɒɹi/
English Vietnamese dictionary
quarry /'kwɔri/
- danh từ
- con mồi; con thịt
- (nghĩa bóng) người bị truy nã
- mảnh kính hình thoi (ở cửa sổ mắt cáo...)
- nơi lấy đá, mỏ đá
- (nghĩa bóng) nguồn lấy tài liệu, nguồn lấy tin tức
- ngoại động từ
- lấy (đá) ở mỏ đá, khai thác (đá) ở mỏ đá
- to quarry marble: khai thác đá hoa
- (nghĩa bóng) moi, tìm tòi
- lấy (đá) ở mỏ đá, khai thác (đá) ở mỏ đá
- nội động từ
- tìm tòi
- to quarry in old manuscripts: tìm tòi trong các bản thảo cũ
- tìm tòi
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun (plural quarries)
1 [C] a place where large amounts of stone, etc. are dug out of the ground: a chalk / slate quarry + the site of a disused quarry
Compare: MINE n. (1)
2 [sing.] an animal or a person that is being hunted or followed: The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest. + The photographers pursued their quarry through the streets.
+ verb (quarries, quarrying, quarried, quarried) ~ (for) sth
~ sth (from / out of sth) to take stone, etc. out of a quarry: [VN] The local rock is quarried from the hillside. + The area is being quarried for limestone. [also V]
quarrying noun [U]: There has been quarrying in the area for centuries.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
prey, game, prize, object:
The hunter's dogs had run their quarry to ground. Wealthy widows were regarded as fair quarry by the swindlers.
n.
1 mine, pit, excavation:
Only one quarry yielded the statuary marble needed by those sculptors.
v.
2 mine, extract, obtain, get:
Gault's ideas were all quarried from the jottings of obscure writers.
Concise English dictionary
quarried|quarries|quarrying'kwɑrɪ ,'kwɔ- /'kwɒ-
noun
+a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
+a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
+animal hunted or caught for food
verb
+extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
