different between quarry vs sculptor

English

Alternative forms

• currie, curry (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k(w)??i/
• Rhymes: -??i
• Hyphenation: quar?ry

Etymology 1

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 quadr? (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres (“four”).

Noun

quarry (plural quarries)

1. (mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

Synonyms

• delf

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• Irish: cairéal m
• Welsh: chwarel m

Verb

quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)

1. (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

Synonyms

• (obtain stone by extraction): mine
• (extract by searching): dig, dig up, unearth

Derived terms

• quarrying (noun)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quyrrey, querre, curee, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quirreie, from Old French cuiriee (“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”).

Noun

quarry (countable and uncountable, plural quarries)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
2. (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
3. (countable) An object of search or pursuit.

Synonyms

• mark
• prey
• target

Translations

Verb

quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)

1. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Etymology 3

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

Noun

quarry (plural quarries)

1. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

Derived terms

• quarry light
• quarry tile

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quarry”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Further reading

• quarry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• quarry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Latin sc?lptor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?lpt?/

Noun

sculptor (plural sculptors)

1. A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

   Hyponym: sculptress

Translations

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?skulp.tor/, [?s?k???pt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?skulp.tor/, [?skulpt??r]

Noun

sculptor m (genitive sculpt?ris); third declension

1. stone-cutter, sculptor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• sculp?
• sculptilis

Descendants

References

• sculptor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sculptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sculptor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin sc?lptor, French sculpteur.

Noun

sculptor m (plural sculptori, feminine equivalent sculptori??)

1. sculptor

Declension