Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Quay |
QuayNoun1. Wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a quay, denotes that you will contemplate making a long tour in the near future. To see vessels while standing on the quay, denotes the fruition of wishes and designs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | A structure built for the purpose of mooring a vessel; also called a pier. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | A landing place at which vessels receive or discharge cargo. Also called wharf. A quay is usually a solid masonry wall filled in behind. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quay."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor. |
Refuge | Roadstead, anchorage; breakwater, mole, port, haven; harbor, harbor of refuge; seaport; pier, jetty, embankment, quay. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Quay |
| English words defined with "quay": bitt, bollard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quay": DEQ, Drinking at Freeman's Quay ♦ ex dock, ex pier, ex quay ♦ FAS, Freeman's Quay, free-on-quay ♦ mooring place ♦ Puteoli ♦ Quay Financial Software ♦ Railways ♦ shore gangway ♦ Terms of Sale. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Quay" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Vietnamese (roast, rotary, rotatory). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books | |||
Periodicals |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Circular Quay with ferry boats, Sydney, Australia. Credit: CDC. |  | Henry Bouree near the quay at Lisbon. Plate V, print 8. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Irish prisoners being marched along a Dublin quay under a British guard, during the bloody Irish insurrection that began on Easter Monday, 1916. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The device (r)non pluribus impar reappeared in the radiations on the facade of the barracks of the quay of Orsay. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Phase II of the project plans to build 26 additional berths with a total quay length of 6.6 km by 2011 through foreign or domestic direct investment. (references) | |
The MOMAF plans to construct a total of 34 berths with a quay length of 7.9 km capable of handling 42 million tons of cargo a year by 2011. Among the planned 34 berths for the project, four berths with a cargo handling capacity of 2.3 million tons per year were completed in December 1997 with the government funds of USD 329 million. (references) | ||
Inchon Port, located 32 km from Seoul, is the gateway to the Seoul metropolitan area. The MOMAF plans to develop a 18-berth harbor in north of Inchon Port capable of handling 17 million tons of cargo by 2011. The 18 berths will have a total quay length of 4.4 km consisting of 4 scrap iron berths, 5 unprocessed lumber berths, and 9 feeder (general cargo/grain) berths. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | Contact: Mr. Paul Clarenc, Managing Director, Mauritius Oil Refineries Ltd., Quay Road, Port Louis. (references) |
Sri Lanka | However, major expansion work of the existing Queen Elizabeth Quay (QEQ) is underway on a BOT basis with private sector financing. (references) | |
Bahrain | It is moving forward with plans to build a new superport with a 1,800 meter quay, 15 meters of water depth and 234,000 TEUs per year. (references) | |
Trade | Singapore | Equipped with 15-metre deep berths and quay cranes with an outreach of 18 rows across, the terminal can accommodate the largest container vessels available in the world today. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Quay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.41% of the time. "Quay" is used about 363 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.41% | 281 | 17,410 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.21% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.1% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 363 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "quay" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Quay | Last name | 300 | 27,233 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Quay, NM 2. Quay, OK (town, FIPS 61450) |
Expressions using "quay": ex quay ♦ Quay County ♦ quay Financial Software. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "quay": quay-side. | |
Ending with "quay": Boston-quay, free-on-quay. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "quay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | perron (platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mol (dam, mole, pier, quayage, quayside), kalatë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رصيف الميناء (landing stage, stage, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кей (cob, embankment, front, jetty, landing stage, levee, moorage, pier, slip, wharf), вълнолом (breakwater, groyne, jetty, mole, pier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 头 (Pier, Wharf, Wharfs), (a city, a jetty, port). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přístavní hráz (mole, pier), přístavištì (berth, docks, landing place, wharf), nábřeží (embankment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kaj (platform, wharf), perron (platform, railway platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kade (platform, wharf), wal (bank, border, edge, platform, rampart, ring, shore, wharf), perron (platform, wharf), kaai (platform, wharf), aanlegplaats (landing-stage, pier, platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kajo (platform, platform gate, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | pallur (platform, wharf), jarnbreytarpallur (platform, wharf), atløgubryggja (platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اسکله (Pier, Waterfront, Wharf), دیوارساحلی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laituri (burn one's boats, jetty, pier, platform, wharf, wharf landing-stage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quai. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | kaai (key, platform, wharf, wrench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kai (embankment, pier, platform, quayside, waterfront, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποβάθρα (dock, jetty, landing stage, levee, pier, platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מזח (breakwater, jetty, mole, pier, slip, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rakpart (bund, embankment, landing, pier, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | bryggja (platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dermaga (jetty, pier, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | caladh (harbor, harbour, port). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piattaforma (dais, Dolly, faceplate, platform, shelf, wharf), molo (breakwater, jetty, mole, pier, wharf), banchina (pier, platform, quayside, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 波止 (jetty, landing-stage, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はとば (jetty, landing-stage, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | keiy (jetty, quayside, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | perrong (platform, railway platform, wharf), kai (platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | waf (platform, wharf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayquay peron (platform, wharf). (various references) plataforma (dais, deck, footboard, gallery, platform, rampart, stand, terrace, wharf), cais (bund, pier, platform, quayside, wharf, wharfage). (various references) peron (perron, platform, wharf), debarcader (landing place, levee, wharf), chei (embankment, fountain, gap, gorge, jetty, levee, mole, opening, pier, wharf). (various references) набережная (embankment, levee), мол (breakwater, jetty, mole, pier). (various references) ceidhe. (various references) kej (jetty, wharf). (various references) andén (platform, shoulder, wharf), muelle (bouncy, dock, jetty, luxurious, mole, pier, quayside, soft, spring, springy, wharf). (various references) syoro (bank, border, edge, platform, shore, wharf). (various references) kaj (dock, embankment, jetty, levee, pier, platform, whar, wharf). (various references) rıhtım (dock, jetty, pier, quayside, wharf), iskele (dockage, gangboard, gangway, landing, landing place, landing stage, larboard, pier, port, scaffold, scaffolding, seaport, stage, staging, stopping place, wharf). (various references) pristan (r) (pier). (various references) набережна (banking, bay, bund, wharf), мол, причал (wharf). (various references) ke (bunder). (various references) cei. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crepidine, crepidinem, crepidinis, crepido. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quay": quayage, quayages, quaylike, quays, quayside, quaysides. (additional references) | |
| |
"Quay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquay, cuay, equai, equay, muay, qac, qai, qau, qaus, qay, Qayum, Qia, Qma, Qra, qruay, quaa, quac, quady, quae, quag, quagy, quah, quai, quaia, quaib, quaid, quaie, quaif, quaig, quaim, quaip, quait, quaix, quak, qual, quam, quamy, quan, quany, Quanyou, quao, quaoy, quar, quary, quaryz, quasy, Quat, quav, quavy, quaw, quax, quaye, quaz, quazy, qucy, qudy, queay, queby, queey, quef, quei, quely, quesy, quevy, queyd, queye, queyt, qugy, quidy, quiey, quig, quih, quii, quij, quim, quiny, quipy, quisy, quity, quiu, quiv, quiw, quiy, quizy, quny, quoie, quoj, Quow, quox, quoy, quray, quwy, quy, Qwa, Qwaa, squai, squay, uai, uay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quay" (pronounced kē" or kā") |
| 2 | k ē" | Kea, key, marquee, marquis, Quai, ski. |
| 2 | k ā" | bouquet, Cay, communique, croquet, Dak, decay, Kay, okay, parquet, Quai, risque. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-q-u-y" | |
-1 letter: qua. | |
-2 letters: ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-q-u-y" | |
+1 letter: quaky, quays. | |
+2 letters: quaggy, qualmy, quarry, queasy, queazy, yanqui. | |
+3 letters: equably, equally, lacquey, quakily, qualify, quality, quavery, quayage, quinary, squabby, squally, squashy, squatly, squatty, squeaky, yanquis. | |
+4 letters: adequacy, equality, lacqueys, opaquely, piquancy, quackery, quagmiry, quaintly, quandary, quantify, quantity, quayages, quaylike, quayside, queasily, quotably, squarely. | |
+5 letters: antiquary, antiquity, baroquely, coequally, equitably, lacqueyed, loquacity, marquetry, parquetry, piquantly, quadruply, quarrying, quarryman, quarrymen, quarterly, quaysides, reliquary, requalify, sequacity, squalidly, squashily, unequally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Cities 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
