different between recipient vs quarry

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipi?ns, present participle of recipi? (“to receive”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?p.i.?nt/
• IPA^(key): /??.?s?.pi.?nt/

Noun

recipient (plural recipients)

1. One who receives.

   the recipient of money or goods

   My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.

2. (medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
3. (chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

Usage notes

"Recipient" is often reserved for the act of receiving such things as awards or medals. "receiver" is used for insignificant items.

Translations

Adjective

recipient (not comparable)

1. receiving

See also

• Still on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recipiens, recipientem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?.si.pi?ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?.si.pi?en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.si.pi?ent/

Noun

recipient m (plural recipients)

1. recipient, container

Related terms

• rebre

Latin

Verb

recipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of recipi?

Romanian

Etymology

From French récipient

Noun

recipient n (plural recipiente)

1. container

Declension

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