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Meaning of "slate quarry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SLATE QUARRY

slate quarry  [sleɪt ˈkwɒrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLATE QUARRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slate quarry is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SLATE QUARRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slate quarry in the English dictionary

The definition of slate quarry in the dictionary is a quarry where slate is mined.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SLATE QUARRY


chorrie
ˈtʃɒrɪ
corrie
ˈkɒrɪ
lorry
ˈlɒrɪ
Macquarie
məˈkwɒrɪ
quarry
ˈkwɒrɪ
sorry
ˈsɒrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLATE QUARRY

slat
slatch
slate
slate-blue
slate-coloured
slate-grey
slatelike
slater
slatey
slather
slatier
slatiest
slatiness
slating
Slatkin
slatted
slatted floor
slatter
slattern
slatternliness

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLATE QUARRY

barry
carry
cash-and-carry
fetch and carry
glengarry
harry
Jarry
Larry
marble quarry
marry
miscarry
Old Harry
parry
sandstone quarry
scarry
sparry
starry
tarry
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Tom, Dick, or Harry

Synonyms and antonyms of slate quarry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «slate quarry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLATE QUARRY

Find out the translation of slate quarry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of slate quarry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slate quarry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

板岩采石场
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cantera de pizarra
570 millions of speakers

English

slate quarry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्लेट खदान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ائحة المحجر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шифер карьер
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ardósia pedreira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্লেট খনি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ardoisière
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kuari slate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schiefergrube
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スレート採石場
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

슬레이트 채석장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penggalian slate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đá mỏ đá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்லேட் துஷாரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्लेट खदान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kayrak taşı ocağı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cava di ardesia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kamieniołom łupków
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шифер кар´єр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ardezie carieră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχιστόλιθο λατομείου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leigroeve
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skifferbrott
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skiferbrudd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slate quarry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLATE QUARRY»

The term «slate quarry» is normally little used and occupies the 125.421 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLATE QUARRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «slate quarry» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «slate quarry» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slate quarry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLATE QUARRY»

Discover the use of slate quarry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slate quarry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United ...
Sea Green slate quarry. 300 days; 6 employes. Slate— G. Parker & Son. Slate. Slate— Parry & Jones. Slate. Steam. Slate— J. W. Roberts & Co. Slate. Slate— Roberts, Jones & Roberts. Slate. Slate— Vermont Slate Mining Co. Poultney quarry.
Mine and Quarry News Bureau, 1897
2
Slate Deposits and Slate Industry of the United States
I. Page: Igneous slates, analyses of 18 origin of 5 Ijamsville, Md., slate deposits at 33,69 Imports of slate, table of 132-133 Iron, color of slates due to 7 J. Jackson ( Stephen) & Co., slate quarry of... 79 Jamesville, N. Y., slate quarries at 32-33 ...
Thomas Nelson Dale, Edwin Clarence Eckel, William Francis Hillebrand, 1906
3
Bulletin - United States Geological Survey
A, Thin section of slate from Merrill quarry, Brownville, Maine; B, Cleavage banding in shales partly altered to schist, Rupert, Vt 80 XII. Merrill slate quarry, Brownville, Maine 81 XIII. Old Bangor quarry (north-northeast end), Bangor, Pa 96 XIV.
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1914
4
United States Congressional serial set
I. Page. Igneous slates, analyses of 18 origin of 5 Ijamsville, Md., slate deposits at 33.69 Imports of slate, table of 132-133 Iron, color of slates due to 7 .1. Jackson ( Stephen) A Co., slate quarry of... 79 Jainesville. N. Y., slate quarries at 32-33 ...
‎1907
5
Bulletin
A, Thin section of slate from Merrill quarry, Brownville, Maine; B, Cleavage banding in shales partly altered to schist, Rupert, Vt 80 XII. Merrill slate quarry, Brownville, Maine 81 XIII. Old Bangor quarry (north-northeast end), Bangor, Pa 96 XIV.
‎1914
6
Congressional Serial Set
I. Page. Igneous slates, analyses of 18 origin of 5 IjamsvMle, Md., slate deposits at 33,69 i Imports of slate, table of 132-133 Iron, color of slates due to 7 J. Jackson (Stephen) & Co., slate quarry of... 79 JamesvUle, N. Y.. slate quarries at 32-33 ...
‎1907
7
Mines and Quarries: General Report, with Statistics ...
ENGLA ND—cont. i Tons. i LANCASHIRE : 1 1 Brougllton Moor Coniston Broughton Moor Slate C0. i 117 1 High Fells1de, Coniston (a)High Fellside Green Slate Quarry i 246 1 Co. Mossrigg and Klondyke, Coniston (b)James Stephenson ...
‎1906
8
Industrial History from the Air
15 Great Oakley slate quarry, Gwynedd. Cambridge University Collection, AET 77: May 1962. 16 China-clay panorama near St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall. Cambridge University Collection,. duced 10,000 tonnes of slate and 250,000 of ...
Kenneth Hudson, 1984
9
Papers by Command
You naturally expect that the examination would bo on lines that would be consistent with the working of the quarry — the necessary qualifications for a man to run a slate quarry. 11. 100. Not a slate quarry, a quarry!"1 — I am speaking of slate ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1914
10
Colorado Ferberite and the Wolframite Series
Frank Lee Hess, Waldemar Theodore Schaller. Page. Appendix 205 Bibliography of elate 205 Glossary of geologic and slate-quarry terms 213 Index 217. ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. PLATE I. Map of the United States showing location of slate ...
Frank Lee Hess, Waldemar Theodore Schaller, 1914

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLATE QUARRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term slate quarry is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bangor police clamp down on quarry trespassers, add new tool for …
Last summer, Bangor police cited 41 people for trespassing at an old slate quarry whose high walls and remote location attract thrill-seekers from all over. «lehighvalleylive.com, Jun 15»
2
Strip mining scars western county
The slate quarry exemption to Act 250 needs to end. It leaves hundreds of people with homes near the exempted quarries in western Rutland County with no ... «Rutland Herald, May 15»
3
Blaenau Ffestiniog slate quarry to re-open with 'roof blown off'
A slate quarry - closed last year after more than 175 years - is set to re-open with the “roof blown off” to develop new seams. Quarrying work was halted at the ... «Daily Post North Wales, Mar 15»
4
Gwynedd slate quarry plan thrown out by councillors
A controversial bid to remove thousands of tonnes of slate from a former tip in ... Speaking on behalf of those opposing the quarry plan, former Snowdonia ... «Daily Post North Wales, Jan 15»
5
Welsh History Month: Welsh slate quarries, roofing the world
What links Queen Victoria, a small duchess, a broad lady and a big forehead? The answer is that they could all have been found at Penrhyn Slate Quarry in ... «WalesOnline, Oct 14»
6
Rhinebeck seeks lower speed limit on Slate Quarry Rd.
It is known as County Road 19 to some, but most Rhinebeck residents call it Slate Quarry Road. The major east-west cut-through used frequently to get from ... «Red Hook / Rhinebeck Observer, Sep 14»
7
World's first trampoline park to open in abandoned slate mine
This conversion of an old slate quarry, however, is certainly in a league of its own: touted to be the world's first and largest underground trampoline installation, ... «Treehugger, Jun 14»
8
Slate quarry jobs at Blaenau Ffestiniog in the balance
JW Greaves, the company which owns the quarry, will find out over the next two months whether the slate in the Maenofferen seam is of good enough quality to ... «BBC News, Apr 14»
9
Slate quarry cave-in swallows equipment in 1914 - Almanac, March …
1914: Have their work cut out for them: "More than 1,000 tons of slate, rock and earth slid from the side of the Pennsylvania quarry, at Edelman's, Plainfield ... «The Express-Times, Mar 14»
10
Josie Russell campaign stops Snowdonia slate quarrying
Artist Josie Russell, who survived a hammer attack which killed her mother and sister, has won a campaign to to stop slate quarrying in Snowdonia. Gwynedd ... «BBC News, Jan 14»

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