quay

See also quây, and quấy

English

WOTD - 24 June 2008    

Wikipedia

Marine Terminal showing the arrangement of a quay

Etymology

From Old Northern French cai, from Old French chai (modern French: quai).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: kē, IPA: /kiː/, SAMPA: /ki:/
• (US) IPA: /keɪ/, /kweɪ/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: key (in certain pronunciations)

Noun

quay (plural quays)

1. (nautical) A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.

Derived terms

• quayside

Translations

structure for loading and unloading vessels

Bulgarian: кей (bg) (kéj) m. Chinese: 碼頭, 码头 Croatian: kej (hr) m., mol (hr) m. Danish: kaj (da) c. Dutch: kade (nl) f. Esperanto: kajo (eo) Finnish: laituri (fi) French: quai (fr) m. German: Kai (de) n., Anlegestelle (de) f., Pier (de) m. Greek: προκυμαία (el) (prokymaía) f. Hebrew: מֶזַח Hungarian: rakpart (hu) rakodópart (hu) Irish: cé (ga) f. Italian: banchina (it)

Japanese: 波止場 Korean: 부두 (ko) Macedonian: кеј (mk) (kej) m., пристаниште (mk) (pristánište) n. Norwegian: kaj (no) c. Polish: molo n., nabrzeże n. Portuguese: cais (pt) m. Russian: пристань (ru) f. Serbian: пристаниште (sr) m., док (sr) m., мол (sr) m., кеј (sr) Slovene: pomol (sl) m. Spanish: muelle (es) m. Swedish: kaj (sv) Turkish: rıhtım (tr), iskele (tr) Welsh: cei (cy) m.

Verb

quay (third-person singular simple present quays, present participle quaying, simple past and past participle quayed)

1. To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up".

See also

• dock; pier; float; cay; harbour, harbor; mole; riprap; wharf

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Vietnamese

Verb

quay

1. to turn, to revolve, to swivel
2. to whirl, to reverse; to turn back

Derived terms

• heo quay (roast pig)
• vòng đu quay (Ferris wheel)