different between quad vs four

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Latin.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. Four shots of espresso.
2. (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
3. (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
4. A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.

Adjective

quad (not comparable)

1. Having four shots of espresso.

Derived terms

See also

• quadr-, quadri-
• quadru-
• quin

Etymology 2

Clippings.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. (informal) A quadrangle (courtyard).
   • 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:

     Every spring, the quad on the University of Washington (UW) campus transforms from a peaceful green space to a bustling habitat for hundreds of shuttering cameras, families, and onlookers.

2. (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
3. (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
   • 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making (page 91)

     Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.

4. (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
5. (informal) A quadriplegic person.
6. (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
7. (informal) A quadrupel beer.
8. (informal) A quadcopter.

Derived terms

Adjective

quad (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) Of or relating to quads.

Translations

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. A quad bike (from quadricycle)
2. Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (10¹⁵ BTU)

See also

• Quad (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Verb

quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)

1. to ride a quad bike

Etymology 4

1785 Quads. pl, 1847 quads, verb 1876. From the abbreviation quad., for obsolete quadrat. Keyboard command is named for the verb sense.

Alternative forms

• quad. (obsolete)

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16), p 148:

      “Quadrats, sir. We call 'em quads.” . . . Quads are the spaces left between the paragraphs that come white on the paper. If you look here, at this page that is set-up, you will see that they are deeper than the spaces left between the words and letters—regular little trenches.

   • 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p 110:

     Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.

   • 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed, p 91:

     Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.

2. (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
3. (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting) A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.

Synonyms

• em space
• quadrat (obsolete)

Derived terms

Verb

quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)

1. (letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
2. (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.

Dutch

Etymology

From English quad.

Pronunciation

Noun

quad m (plural quads, diminutive quadje n)

1. quad, quad bike

Italian

Noun

quad m (invariable)

1. quad bike

Polish

Etymology

From English quad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?t/

Noun

quad m inan

1. quad bike

   Synonyms: czteroko?owiec, wsz?do?az

Declension

Further reading

• quad in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• quad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

quad f (plural quads)

1. all-terrain vehicle

Translingual

Etymology

From English four

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fo.?] ^[sic]

Numeral

four

1. Code word for the digit 4 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word kartefour

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English four, from Old English f?ower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedw?r, from previous pre-Grimm *petw?r, from Proto-Indo-European *k?etw?r, the neuter form of *k?etwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fô, IPA^(key): /f??/
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fo(?)?/
• (US)
  • (General American) enPR: fôr, IPA^(key): /f??/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: f?r, IPA^(key): /fo(?)?/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo?/
  • (without horse–hoarse merger)
  • (with horse–hoarse merger)
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /fo?/
• Rhymes: -???(r), -??(?)
• Homophones: fore, for (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Numeral

four

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)

   There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

   • Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fourth

Descendants

Translations

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
• Last: three, 3
• Next: five, 5

Noun

four (countable and uncountable, plural fours)

1. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.

   Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

3. A person who is four years old.

   I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

4. (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
5. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
6. (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
   1. The shell itself.

   2. The crew rowing in a four boat.

   3. (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.

7. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, IV:

     I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.

Derived terms

• (numeral): rouf (back slang)

Translations

See also

Pages starting with “four”.

Anagrams

• furo, rouf, uORF

French

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *g??r?-nós, from *g??er- (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

four m (plural fours)

1. oven
2. stove
3. flop

Derived terms

• au four
• avoir une brioche au four
• enfourner
• être au four et au moulin
• four à micro-ondes
• gant de four
• noir comme dans un four
• petit four

Related terms

• fournaise
• fourneau

Further reading

• “four” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin foris, foras. Compare Italian fuori, Friulian fûr, Dalmatian fure, Venetian fora.

Adverb

four

1. out, outside

Preposition

four

1. out, outside

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fore, feour, fower, fowwre, foure, fowr, vour

Etymology

From Old English fe?wer

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?fø?w?r/
• IPA^(key): /?f?ur/

Numeral

four

1. four

Related terms

• ferthe
• fourtene

Descendants

• English: four
  • Northumbrian: fower
• Scots: fower
• Yola: vower, vour, voure

Norman

Alternative forms

• fou (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

four m (plural fours)

1. (Guernsey) oven

Walloon

Noun

four m (plural fours)

1. hay