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quad
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kw?d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kw?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Latin.
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- Four shots of espresso.
- (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.
Adjective
quad (not comparable)
- Having four shots of espresso.
Derived terms
See also
- quadr-, quadri-
- quadru-
- quin
Etymology 2
Clippings.
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- (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.
- 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:
- (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
- (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.
- 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making (page 91)
- (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
- (informal) A quadriplegic person.
- (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
- (informal) A quadcopter.
Derived terms
Adjective
quad (not comparable)
- (poker slang) Of or relating to quads.
Translations
Etymology 3
Abbreviation
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- 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)
- 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)
- (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.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16), p 148:
- (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
- (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)
- (letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
- (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)
- quad, quad bike
Italian
Noun
quad m (invariable)
- quad bike
Polish
Etymology
From English quad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw?t/
Noun
quad m inan
- 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)
- all-terrain vehicle
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quadrille
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw?d???l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
Noun
quadrille (plural quadrilles)
- A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
- The music for this dance.
- (card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
- A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
Translations
Verb
quadrille (third-person singular simple present quadrilles, present participle quadrilling, simple past and past participle quadrilled)
- (intransitive) To dance the quadrille.
- 1834, Arthur Courtenay, Autobiography and Letters of Arthur Courtenay (page 36)
- We quadrilled, waltzed, and conversed, in all of which my clever partner excelled; and her charms, combined with the excellent champagne I imbibed, fairly dazzled my imagination.
- 1834, Arthur Courtenay, Autobiography and Letters of Arthur Courtenay (page 36)
Etymology 2
From French quadrillé.
Noun
quadrille (plural quadrilles)
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
Derived terms
- quadrille paper
Related terms
- quad
- quadrella
References
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.d?ij/
Noun
quadrille m or f (plural quadrilles)
- (bullfighting) cuadrilla
Verb
quadrille
- first-person singular present indicative of quadriller
- third-person singular present indicative of quadriller
- first-person singular present subjunctive of quadriller
- third-person singular present subjunctive of quadriller
- second-person singular imperative of quadriller
Further reading
- “quadrille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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