quarry
Definisie in die woordeboek Engels
quarry
Definisies
A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.
(transitive) To obtain (mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
(figuratively) (transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
sinonieme
animal · creature · stone pit · fair game · fauna · victim · exploit · prey · brute · beast · animate being · pit · tap · target · excavation
prey
animal hunted or caught for food
prey · target · fair game
a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt"
grammatika
quarry ( third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
quarry ( plural quarries)
quarry (plural quarries)
quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
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As far as weekly wage earners, men earned their highest wages in mining and quarrying and construction, while the highest paying industries for women are hotel and restaurant and education.UN-2 UN-2
A few miles from the campus, there was an abandoned quarry... which had been filled by the spring rains.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
NACE 08.99: Other mining and quarrying n.e.c.EurLex-2 EurLex-2
“Because someone in the Quarry knew that the fu shard was hidden.Literature Literature
There would also have been large-scale quarrying projects to provide Sneferu with the stone he needed for his pyramids.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix
This quarry is owned by the earl.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
He woke her in the middle of the night and took her to an abandoned quarry north of town.Literature Literature
the Ministry of Development delivered an opinion (APD10/B/F6.12 Gen/6422 of 9 May 2000) to the Directorate for Industry in Larissa stating that Article 4 of Law 2115/93 prohibits the establishment of quarries within a two-kilometre radius of designated archaeological sites or protected areas and that, therefore, it is not possible to set up a quarry within an area forming part of the Natura 2000 network,EurLex-2 EurLex-2
Gareth Jones : From April , the Chancellor will place an additional tax on the produce of the Hanson Aggregates quarry in Penmaenmawr , in my constituencyenglishtainment-tm-C8nrWo8C englishtainment-tm-C8nrWo8C
First the referring court asks whether it is relevant that the leftover stone is stored on a site adjoining the place of quarrying to await subsequent use and whether it is relevant generally whether it is stored on the quarrying site, a site next to it or further away.EurLex-2 EurLex-2
material wholly or mainly consisting of shale that is deliberately extracted for commercial exploitation as aggregate, including here shale occurring as by-product of fresh quarrying of other taxed materials; andEurLex-2 EurLex-2
Other transportation support activities, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION, Engineering activities and related technical consultancy, Technical testing and analysis, Scientific research and development, Specialised design activities, MINING AND QUARRYING, MANUFACTURING, Waste treatment and disposal, Materials recovery, Remediation activities and other waste management services, Warehousing and storage, Cargo handlingEurLex-2 EurLex-2
Draws attention to the severe impact that such pollution can have on human health, as witnessed by petitions received from Ireland (Galway), France (Brittany) and other Member States; recalls its resolution of 2 February 2012 on the issues raised by petitioners in relation to the application of the Waste Management Directive and related directives in the Member States of the European Union, which drew attention to the dangerous levels of water contamination resulting from badly-managed or illegal landfill sites and quarries, which has led to infiltration and pollution of groundwater and of water tables (nappes phréatiques);EurLex-2 EurLex-2
I head to the Quarry to interrupt the enemy capture and turn to run away from Garen.QED QED
Mining and Quarryingeurlex-diff-2018-06-20 eurlex-diff-2018-06-20
IN A ROCK QUARRY.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
Bring it, Macer, we have our quarry.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
Mining and quarrying; manufacturingeurlex eurlex
(6) Accordingly, this Directive should cover the management of waste from land-based extractive industries, that is to say, the waste arising from the prospecting, extraction (including the pre-production development stage), treatment and storage of mineral resources and from the working of quarries.not-set not-set
I agree with both Mr Roche and Commissioner Vitorino that the energy, mining and quarrying industries are of great importance to the economies of many poor countries.Europarl8 Europarl8
Non-autonomous pension funds: Section C: Mining and quarryingeurlex eurlex
Article 4 (e) of the Directive excludes the activities of the extractive industries concerned with exploration for, and the exploitation of, minerals in mines and quarries or by means of boreholes from its scope.EurLex-2 EurLex-2
There are two possible origins for the name Lias: the first reason is it was taken by a geologist from an English quarryman's dialect pronunciation of the word "layers"; secondly, sloops from north Cornish ports such as Bude would sail across the Bristol Channel to the Vale of Glamorgan to load up with rock from coastal limestone quarries (lias limestone from South Wales was used throughout North Devon/North Cornwall as it contains calcium carbonate to fertilise the poor quality Devonian soils of the West Country); the Cornish would pronounce the layers of limestone as 'laiyers' or 'lias'.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix
In 2012, the construction and quarrying sector in general declined by some 12 per cent.UN-2 UN-2
People began quarrying away underneath Paris in the middle ages.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
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