Drive and Quarry

Drive

Drive verb - To urge, push, or force onward.

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Quarry and drive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Quarry" instead a verb "Drive".

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Quarry verb - Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.

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Drive and quarry are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a verb "Quarry".

Nearby Words: quarrying, quarried

human	human drive	human quarry
old	old drive	old quarry
long	long drive	long quarry
active	active drive	active quarry
Other adjectives: entire, main, ancient, final, broken, next, said.

Dale displays his inability in driving stick when it's his turn to drive and caused the car to fall into the quarry.

Source: Driving Stick
Rather than drive 1500 km into the Australian outback to find a desert wasteland, the creators of the Fan Film Star Wars Downunder decided to just copy Doctor Who and film in a gravel quarry outside Ipswich, Queensland.

Source: BBC Quarry
For British sci-fi shows, it's "Quarry Doubling" — any desolate alien planet is usually a quarry (usually the BBC Quarry) within a couple of hours' drive from London — or Doubling for London.

Source: California Doubling

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