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quarrying

/kwawr-ee, kwor-ee/US // ˈkwɔr i, ˈkwɒr i //UK // (ˈkwɒrɪ) //

采石业,采石,采石场,采石术

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural quar·ries.

    • : an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
    • : an abundant source or supply.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    quar·ried, quar·ry·ing.

    • : to obtain from or as if from a quarry.
    • : to make a quarry in.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
bore内孔,镗孔,内孔的,孔雀bulldoze推土机,推平,推土,推倒burrow洞,洞洞,洞洞头,在地窝clean清洁,洁净,清洁的,洁净的discover发现,发觉,发现的,探索dredge疏浚,疏通,疏导,疏浚工程drill训练,训练演练,训练演习enter进入,走进,进入进入excavate开挖,发掘,挖掘,挖出exhume挖出,掘出,发掘,掘出尸体go into进入,进,入,陷入gouge刮削,挖掉,挖出,抠harvest收获,丰收,收成,收割penetrate渗透,穿透,渗入,识破scoop杓子,勺子,舀子,舀水search搜索,搜寻,搜查,检索shovel铲子,铁锹,锸,锹sift筛选,筛,筛分,筛查uncover揭秘,揭穿,揭发,揭开unearth掘出,发掘,出土,挖掘出来cat猫,猫咪,猫类,猫猫channel渠道,频道,通道,信道deepen深化,加深,加强,深入depress压抑,沮丧,沮丧的,压抑的drive驱动器,驱动,驾驶,驱动力grub蛴螬,蝤蛴,饲料,蛴蛩钔淞hoe锄头,锄地,锄草,锄奸investigate调查,侦查,探讨mine矿井,我的,矿山,矿场pierce刺破,穿透,刺穿,捅破pit坑,坑内,坑洞,坑位probe探测,探索,探测器,调查produce生产,制作,产生,产量quarry采石场,石矿场,石场,石料场root根,根基,根源,根部rout溃败,溃散,溃疡,溃决sap汁液,汁水,肥皂水,肥皂spade铲子,铲,铲铲till直到,直到最后,直到有一天,直到有一次tunnel隧道,地道,隧道内,隧道里undermine损害,破坏,颠覆,削弱break up分手,分裂,分割,散伙concave凹陷,凹面,凹,凹进dig down往下挖,挖下去,挖下,挖掉fork out岔开,豁出去了,叉开,分叉root out根除,铲除,铲除障碍,拔除scoop out挖出,挖出来的,舀出,挖出来turn over翻开,翻转,翻阅,翻过

Examples

  • “There were a lot of farmworkers’ houses and people who worked at the quarry,” she said.

  • Our sights are set far smaller—bluegills, crappie, and perch, the perfect first quarry for a beginner.

  • Photos from 1992 and 2001 document pieces in which the Scotland-based artist froze rocks to a quarry face and laced a stone wall with large icicles.

  • Like a rock quarry or a cable television provider, regional casinos are inherently good businesses.

  • You’ll find waterfalls and dinosaur tracks near this RV-friendly site, which is perched on the edge of a former quarry, a national historic landmark that’s now a lake.

  • Castle Black is built into an old quarry about 45 minutes north of Belfast.

  • We shot it in an abandoned quarry just outside of Split in Croatia.

  • He says the way we do this is similar to a bird of prey assessing its quarry, swooping in.

  • The sexually voracious alpha-female who seduces and then consumes her quarry?

  • As rocks tumbled from the quarry wall above, the need for capped helmets became clear.

  • Here is a gold-mine for the makers of boys' books of all future generations to quarry in.

  • Now it happened that these steps of the dwarfs adjoined a deserted stone quarry less than a mile from the castle of Clarides.

  • No man who ever was in a quarry or gravel pit will say so, much less one who has the least smattering of chemistry or geology.

  • Nor can one who in pumping out his quarry frees another quarry from water recover anything for the service.

  • On one occasion (we are not told the date or place) the hunter nearly became a prey to his quarry.