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Definition: Quarrying |
QuarryingNoun1. The extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quarrying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. The surface exploitation of stone or mineral deposits from the Earth's crust b. Removal of rock that has value because of its physical characteristics c. One of the effects of glaciation whereby blocks of stone, bounded mainly by joint planes, are lifted from the bedrock and carried away byice. Also called plucking. (references) |
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Synonyms: QuarryingSynonyms: Quarries, Rock quarrying. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Quarrying |
| English words defined with "quarrying": excavator ♦ Gadding car ♦ Quarry-man. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quarrying": air-drill operator, air-hammer operator ♦ balance car, base charge, base fracture, Beethoven exploder, blasting compounds, block structure ♦ control on fracture, crushed stone, crusher rock ♦ drill-sharpener operator ♦ false cleavage ♦ hole layout, hollow-plunger pump ♦ initial face ♦ JACKHAMMER OPERATOR ♦ maintaining levels, MINE SUPERINTENDENT, mining water use, multiple-bench quarrying ♦ nitroglycerin powder ♦ openpit mining ♦ plug-and-feather method, plug-drill operator, pop shot ♦ quarry powder, QUARRY SUPERVISOR, DIMENSION STONE ♦ right-angled block, rock channeler, rubbing bed ♦ sand pit, secondary shooting, sheet quarry, single-bench quarrying, straight-cut gang frame, strain break, superintendent, colliery, superintendent, quarry ♦ TOOL DRESSER, trailing cable, triclinic block. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Quarrying granite, New England Granite Quarry, Concord, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Quarrying, a New England granite quarry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The non-metallic mineral extraction and rock quarrying sectors also offer good opportunities. (references) | |
Economic History | Eritrea | The potential for quarrying ornamental marble and granite is excellent. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The construction sector accounts for 7.6% of GDP, and mining and quarrying 1.8%. (references) | |
San Marino | Traditional economic activities in San Marino were raising food crops, sheep farming, and stone quarrying. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | Other children are employed in construction work, quarrying, gold and other types of mining, pearl diving, and forestry activities, many of which pose serious hazards. (references) |
Guatemala | The majority of child laborers work in agriculture (family farms, coffee, and sugar cane harvesting), while others work in domestic service, construction, various family businesses, stone quarrying, rock-breaking, fireworks manufacturing, shining shoes, begging, performing in the streets, or other jobs. (references) | |
Taiwan | The Labor Standards Law mandates labor standards and addresses rights and obligations of employees and employers in the agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, public utilities, transportation, warehousing, communications, mass media, and other sectors designated by the Ministry of Interior. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Quarrying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.15% of the time. "Quarrying" is used about 53 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 64.15% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.98% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.09% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "quarrying": stone-quarrying. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quarrying | 15 |
institute quarrying | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quarrying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 挖掘 (Excavate, Excavated, Excavating, Excavation, Quarried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | brydning af stenmaterialer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steenwinning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | louhinta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | abattage en carrière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Abbau (breakdown, cutback, decomposition, dismantling, mining, reduction, run down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λατόμευση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | abbattimento (breakdown, dejection, depressiveness, despondency, doldrums, knocking down, mope). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 石切り (stone-cutter, stone-cutting), 採石 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいせき (broken stone, carrying, loading, rubble), いしきり (stone-cutter, stone-cutting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 돌을 파냄. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arryingquay exploração de pedreira, desmonte (dismount). (various references) explotación de la cantera. (various references) brytning av sten, brytning (accent, breach, break, breaking, divergence, fracture, mining, rending). (various references) taşçılık, ocaktan taş çıkarma. (various references) sự khai thác đá, công việc khai thác đá. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lapidarii, lapidariis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quarrying": quarryings. (additional references) | |
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"Quarrying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Quadring, quarrling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quarrying" (pronounced kwô"rēing) |
| 4 | -r ē i ng | burying, carrying, dairying, ferrying, marrying, remarrying, varying, wearying. |
| 3 | -ē i ng | accompanying, bullying, copying, cozying, currying, dizzying, embodying, emptying, hurrying, jockeying, jollying, journeying, levying, lobbying, monkeying, muddying, partying, photocopying, pitying, rallying, readying, remedying, scurrying, studying, tallying, taxiing, worrying. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-q-r-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: quinary, urinary. | |
-3 letters: grainy, quarry, raring, raying, yanqui. | |
-4 letters: angry, garni, gnarr, grain, gurry, rainy, rangy, ruing, unary, unrig, urari. | |
-5 letters: agin, airn, airy, ayin, gain, gaun, gaur, girn, gnar, gran, gray, grin, guan, guar, gyri, nary, quag, quai, quay, quin, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, ruga, ruin, rung, unai, yagi, yang, yarn, yirr. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-q-r-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: quarryings. | |
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