different between qual vs quake

English

Alternative forms

• Qual

Noun

qual (plural quals)

1. (usually in the plural) Qualifying exam. An exam taken by someone (usually a grad student or prospective grad student) to measure their mastery in something, usually an academic field.
   • 2000, Stephen Cannell, The Devil's Workshop: A Novel, HarperCollins (2000), page 12,

     He'd refused to say anything more, because he didn't want to distract her with his problems on the eve of the Quals.

   • 2004, Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, John Wiley & Sons (2004), page 30.

     To be a theorist, you also had to pass a special theory section on the quals.

Quotations

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:qual.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin qu?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kwal/

Pronoun

qual (relative, plural quals)

1. which

   És un cop del qual no es va recuperar.

   It's a blow from which he is not going to recover.

Derived terms

• tal qual

Further reading

• “qual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Interlingua

Adverb

qual (not comparable)

1. what (such)

Determiner

qual

1. (relative) which

   Le doctrina de Jamblicho super le anima es sin dubita inspirate per le Timeo de Platon, in qual texto le autor depinge le anima como le mediation inter lo intelligibile indivisibile – le idea – e lo sensibile divisibile e multiple.^[1]

   Iamblichus' doctrine about the soul is without a doubt inspired by Plato's Timaeus, in which text the author depicts the soul as the mediation between the indivisible intelligible — the idea — and the divisible and multiple sensory.

Pronoun

qual

1. (interrogative) what

   Qual es le instrumento del anima per rationalisar lo sensibile, multiple e cambiante? ^[2]

   What is the soul's instrument to perceive by reason the sensory, multiple, and variable?

2. (relative) which

   Secundo Jamblicho, le mathematica es le medio per qual le anima da unitate a lo diverse e es capabile de rationalisar le ordine de lo sensibile. ^[3]

   According to Iamblichus, mathematics is the medium by which the soul gives unity to the diverse and is capable of perceiving by reason the order of the sensory.

Italian

Adjective

qual m and f

1. Apocopic form of quale
   • (Can we date this quote?), Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I:

     Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
     esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
     che nel pensier rinova la paura!

     Ah, how rueful to say what sort it was
     this wilderness wild and harsh and daunting
     that in my thoughts makes my fright alive again

Middle English

Noun

qual

1. Alternative form of whale

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese qual, from Latin qu?lis (“which”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?kwa?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kwaw/, [?k?ä??]

Pronoun

qual (plural quais)

1. which (what one)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:qual.

Derived terms

• cada qual
• qual é?
• o qual
• tal qual

Related terms

• qualidade
• qualificar
• qualquer

Spanish

Pronoun

qual (relative, plural quales)

1. Obsolete spelling of cual

English

Etymology

From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-Germanic *kwak?n? (“to shake, quiver, tremble”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?og- (“to shake, swing”), related to Old English cwe??an (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”) (see quitch), Dutch kwakkelen (“to ail, be ailing”), German Quackelei (“chattering”), Danish kvakle (“to bungle”), Latin v?x? (“toss, shake violently, jostle, vex”), Irish bogadh (“a move, movement, shift, change”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwe?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

quake (plural quakes)

1. A trembling or shaking.

   We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.

2. An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.

   California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.

Translations

Verb

quake (third-person singular simple present quakes, present participle quaking, simple past and past participle quaked or (archaic) quoke or (obsolete) quook)

1. (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
   • 1575-86, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

   • 1598-99, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene I

     If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

   • 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene II

     Now could I drink hot blood / And do such bitter business as the bitter day / Would quake to look on.

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, Act IV, Scene VIII

     Who honours not his father, Henry the fifth, that made all France to quake, Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by.

   • Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and carefulness.

Derived terms

• quakebreech
• quakebuttock
• Quaker

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Verb

quake

1. inflection of quaken:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Middle English

Verb

quake

1. Alternative form of quaken