quarry

taş ocağı

Taş veya kum çıkarmak için kazılan, üstü açık büyük çukur.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A large open hole in the ground where people dig out stone or sand.

• He works in a quarry.
• They took marble from the quarry to build the museum.
• The old quarries have filled with water.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: stone quarry, abandoned quarry, work in a quarry

av

Bir insanın veya başka bir hayvanın avlamaya çalıştığı hayvan.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: An animal that a person or another animal is hunting.

• The hawk watched its quarry.
• The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest.
• A fox followed its quarry across the field.

Eş anlamlılar: prey, game

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: pursue its quarry, hunt their quarry, catch its quarry

hedef, aranan kişi

Birinin bulmaya veya yakalamaya çalıştığı kişi ya da şey.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A person or thing that someone is trying to find or catch.

• The detective finally found his quarry.
• Her quarry was a rare book missing from the library.
• The reporters pursued their quarry through the station.

Eş anlamlılar: target

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: elusive quarry, find their quarry, pursue their quarry

araştırarak çıkarmak

Uzun süre dikkatle araştırarak bilgi veya başka yararlı malzeme elde etmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To obtain information or other useful material by searching carefully for a long time.

• They quarry facts from old letters.
• She quarried evidence from hundreds of records.
• The historian spent years quarrying material from private archives.

Nasıl kullanılır: quarry something from something (She quarried details from old court records.); quarry something out of something (He quarried useful facts out of forgotten reports.)

Eş anlamlılar: extract, unearth

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: quarry facts, quarry from something, quarry out something