Extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry (quarry marble) Wiktionary Borrowing from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a place where stones are squared, from Old French quarriÃ¨re (compare modern French carriÃ¨re), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrÅ (âI squareâ) itself from quadra (âa squareâ).
mils is a colloquial term and as such could have more than one meaning. It is possibly short for millilitres (mL) and is therefore 60 mils is 60mL. 60mL is approximately 1/4â¦ of a (non-metric) cup. A metric cup is 250mL.     mils also refers to a unit of thickness 1 mil = .001 inch. 4 people found this useful.
What Does SOS Stand For? A lot of people think that the distress signal is an abbreviation for âsave our soulsâ or âsave our ship.â But in reality, save our souls and save our ship are backronyms, and the letters donât actually stand for anything. In fact, the signal isnât even really supposed to be three individual letters.