English-Portuguese translations for quarry

• pedreira
  Senhor Presidente, esta foi a segunda vez que debatemos hoje a exploração de minas e pedreiras. Mr President, this is the second time today that we have discussed mining and quarrying.
  Creio que o mesmo acontecerá com esta, e os proprietários das pedreiras estão descontentes com esta situação. I believe that will happen with this one as well, and quarry owners are not happy about that.
  Isto obriga os proprietários das pedreiras a mudarem-se da Irlanda do Norte para a República da Irlanda a fim de poder competir, pois de outra forma não há como fazê-lo. This is forcing quarry owners to move from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland in order to compete, because otherwise they cannot.
• presa

Definition of quarry

• A site#Noun|site for mine#Verb|mining stone#Noun|stone, limestone, or slate#Noun|slate
• To obtain stone by extraction from a quarry
• To extract#Verb|extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching#Noun|searching
• A part of the entrails of a hunted#Adjective|hunted animal, given to the hound#Noun|hounds as a reward#Noun|reward
• An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunt#Verb|hunted
• An object of search#Noun|search or pursuit
• To secure prey#Noun|prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy
• A diamond-shaped tile#Noun|tile or pane, often of glass or stone#Noun|stone

Examples

• Michelangelo
• They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri

Related words

• quarrying
• quarryman
• quarry tile
• quarry pond
• gravel quarry
• slate quarry
• stone quarry