Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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quarry

UK /ˈkwɒɹ.i/ · US /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/ noun, verb

Forms quarries quarrying quarried currie curry

  1. noun (mining) A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate. “Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.”
  2. verb (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
  3. verb (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. “They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.”
  4. noun (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
  5. noun (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
  6. noun (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
  7. verb To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
  8. noun A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

Synonyms

delf mine dig dig up unearth mark prey target fair game pit stone pit

Etymology

From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“to square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).

From Middle English quyrre, querre, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quiree (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”).

Alteration of quarrel (“diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window; square tile”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as 1st Quarrel. [Obs.] Fairfax.
  2. adjective Quadrate; square. [Obs.]
  3. noun The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead quarry." Spenser.
  4. verb To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy. L'Estrange.

Etymology [OE. quarre, OF. quarré square, F. carré, from L. quadratus square, quadrate, quadratum a square. See Quadrate, and cf. Quarrel an arrow.]

Etymology [OF. quarré.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “quarry”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “quarry” (best matches first).