different between quale vs qual

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw??l/, /?kwe?l/

Noun

quale (plural qualia)

1. (philosophy) An instance of subjective, conscious experience.
   • 2011, Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

     I was more like a vegetable than a person—with my consciousness only a shadow of self-awareness, only a dim sense of qualia penetrated my mental haze.

Anagrams

• Equal., equal, queal

Ido

Etymology

From quala +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwa.le/, /?kwa.l?/

Adverb

quale

1. (interrogative adverb) how, as, like

Related terms

• quala (“what kind of”)

• qualeso (“quality”)

• qualesala (“qualitative”)

See also

• qua (“who (person)”)
  • quo (“what (thing)”)
  • qui (“who (plural)”)
  • pro quo (“why”)
• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin qu?lis, qu?lem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwa.le/
• Hyphenation: qua?le

Adjective

quale m or f (plural quali)

1. (question) what?

   Synonym: che

2. (in choosing options) which?

3. (exclamation) what

   Synonym: che

4. (in lists) such as, like

   Synonyms: come, tipo

Usage notes

• Poetic or archaic variants before consonant: quai, quà.

Pronoun

quale

1. which ... ?

Derived terms

• il quale (relative pronoun)

Adverb

quale

1. as

   Synonym: come

Related terms

• qualche
• qualcosa
• qualcuno
• qualità
• qualsiasi
• qualunque

Latin

Pronoun

qu?le

1. nominative neuter singular of qu?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of qu?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of qu?lis

Middle English

Noun

quale

1. Alternative form of whale

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