different between qual vs quat

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

quat (plural quats)

1. (obsolete) A pustule.
2. (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.

Verb

quat (third-person singular simple present quats, present participle quatting, simple past and past participle quatted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.
   • 1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28,

     Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ?tart me, that I may come the ?ooner to quatting——Hu?h ! here?s Si?ter ; what the deuce brought her !

2. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To relinquish, forsake, give up.

   Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.
3. (Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.

Adjective

quat (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.

Etymology 2

Clipping of quaternary.

Noun

quat (plural quats)

1. (chemistry) A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.

Adjective

quat (not comparable)

1. Quaternary.

Etymology 3

See khat.

Noun

quat (countable and uncountable, plural quats)

1. Alternative spelling of khat.

Middle English

Adjective

quat

1. Alternative form of wothe

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kw?d?, whence also Old English cw?ad.

Noun

qu?t m

1. mud
2. dirt

Descendants

• German: Kot