different between quad vs house

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English h?s (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *h?s? (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Norwegian Bokmål hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Compare also Northern Luri ???? (höš, “house, home”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.

The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply h?s.)

Alternative forms

• howse (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: hous, IPA^(key): /ha?s/
• (Canada, Virginia) IPA^(key): /h??s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

1. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]

   • The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
2. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]

   • one that feared God with all his house

3. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
   1. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]

   2. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.[from 10th c.]

   3. (historical) A workhouse.
      • 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)

        To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.

4. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
5. A theatre.

6. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]

7. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]

8. (figuratively) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
   • 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour

     Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.

   • 1815, Walter Scott, The Lord of the Isles

     Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death  […].

9. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]

10. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
11. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:

      Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.

12. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
13. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
14. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
15. Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
16. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

17. (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
18. (sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.

Synonyms

• (establishment): shop
• (company or organisation): shop

Hypernyms

• building

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Nigerian Pidgin: haus
• Tok Pisin: haus
• Sranan Tongo: oso
  • ? Dutch: osso

Translations

See house/translations § Noun.

Further reading

• house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• house (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English housen, from Old English h?sian, from Proto-Germanic *h?s?n? (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: houz, IPA^(key): /ha?z/
• Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z
• Homophone: how's (verb)

Verb

house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)

1. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
2. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
4. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

   • Where Saturn houses.

5. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
6. (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
8. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
   • 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments

     Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre

9. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

10. (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat.
    • 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")

      All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.

Synonyms

• (keep within a structure or container): store
• (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
• (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

Noun

house (uncountable)

2. (music) House music.

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ou?s?]

Etymology 1

Noun

house n

1. gosling

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

house m anim

1. house music, house

Further reading

• house in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• house in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

house m (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?u?s/, [?h?u?s?]
• Syllabification: hou?se

Noun

house (uncountable)

1. (music) house music, house

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aws/

Noun

house f (uncountable)

1. house music, house (genre of music)

Synonyms

• house music

Anagrams

• houes, houés

Hungarian

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?uz]
• Hyphenation: house
• Rhymes: -uz

Noun

house (plural house-ok)

1. (music) house, house music (type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

Declension

Derived terms

• house-parti
• house-zene

References

Middle English

Noun

house

1. Alternative form of hous

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English house, house music

Noun

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Synonyms

• housemusikk

References

• “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

house m

1. house music, house

Polish

Etymology

From English house music.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaws/

Noun

house m inan

1. house, house music

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjectives) house'owy, housowy

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From English house music

Noun

house m

1. house music, house

   Synonym: música house

Spanish

Etymology

From English house music.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xaus/, [?xau?s]

Noun

house m (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Swedish

Etymology

From English house music

Noun

house c

1. house music, house

Declension

Synonyms

• housemusik, house-musik