different between victim vs quarry

English

Etymology

From Middle French victime, from Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?kt?m/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?v?kt?m/
• Hyphenation: vic?tim

Noun

victim (plural victims)

1. One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:

   the youngest victims of the brutal war

   victim of a bad decision by a rushed and overworked judge

   • 2014, Holger H. Herwig, The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 116:

     Flexibility, one of the hallmarks of German military doctrine, was a victim of the war.

   1. One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam.

      victims of assault; the murderer's victims

      became another victim of the latest scam
   2. One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness.

      a fundraiser for victims of AIDS; a victim of a car crash
   3. One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.

      a victim of his own pride; a victim of her own incompetence

      the newcomer never managed to make friends, a victim of the town's deep distrust of outsiders

      a victim of sexism; victims of a racist system

   4. One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.

      relief efforts to help victims of the hurricane

      victim of an optical illusion; victim of a string of bad luck

      local businesses were the main victims of the economic downturn

      • 1970 March 12, United States House Committee on Education and Labor, Summary of Legislative Action of the House Education and Labor Committee for the 91st Congress (1st Session) / Educational Technology Act of 1969: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session on H.R. 8838 ... March 12, 1970:

        To some extent the schools and colleges are victims of conditions beyond their control: rapid population growth and mobility, country; to-city migration, unpredictable economic and social changes wrought by technology, […]
2. A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.
   1. (by extension, Christianity) The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

Usage notes

Many people advise against describing a disabled person as being a victim of the condition that relates to their status as a disabled person and suggest describing a disabled person as having or experiencing that condition instead.

Synonyms

• injured party

Antonyms

• offender

Related terms

• victimize, victimise
• victimization, victimisation
• victimism
• victimist

Translations

References

• victim at OneLook Dictionary Search
• victim in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• victim in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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