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quality
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French qualité, from Latin qu?lit?tem, accusative of qu?lit?s, from qu?lis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?o- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ??????? (poiót?s, “quality”), coined by Plato from ????? (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kw?l?ti/
- (UK, obsolete) IPA(key): /?kwæl?ti/, /?kwæl?t?/
- (US, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?kw?l?ti/, [?k?w????i]
Noun
quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)
- (uncountable) Level of excellence.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
- He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
- (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)
- (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
- (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
- (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
- (countable, Britain, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
- 1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics (page 164)
- It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.
- 1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics (page 164)
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Hyponyms
- human quality
- industrial quality
Coordinate terms
- (a property that differentiates): quiddity
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
quality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)
- Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
Derived terms
- qualityness
Related terms
- qualia
- qualitative
Translations
References
- Quality (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- quality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- quality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- quality at OneLook Dictionary Search
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aspect
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspici? (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speci? (“look, look at, behold; observe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æsp?kt/
- Hyphenation: as?pect
Noun
aspect (plural aspects)
- Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
- Synonym: facet
- The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
- The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
- A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
- One's appearance or expression. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: appearance, look, blee
- Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
- Prospect; outlook.
- 1643, John Evelyn, Diary
- This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended ; nor does it deceive us ; for it is handsomely built ...
- 1643, John Evelyn, Diary
- (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding. [from 19th c.]
- (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, lines 656 to 664.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, lines 656 to 664.
- (religion, mythology) The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
- (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze. [14th-19th c.]
- 1590, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 924:
- The tradition is no less ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect ; and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect striketh a man hoarse.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 1:
- ... his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, ...
- 1590, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 924:
- (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, Vol 1, Chapter IX.
- They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish.
- 1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. IV, Chapter XVIII
- Three days later he opened the parliament. The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, Vol 1, Chapter IX.
- (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
- (rail transport) The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green.
Hyponyms
- (grammar): grammatical aspect, aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect; lexical aspect
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (grammar): aspectuality
- (grammar): Aktionsart, aktionsart
Verb
aspect (third-person singular simple present aspects, present participle aspecting, simple past and past participle aspected)
- (astrology, of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
- (Wicca) To channel a divine being.
- (obsolete) To look at.
References
- aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Grammatical aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “aspect”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- aspect at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- epacts, escap't
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch aspect, from Middle French aspect, from Latin aspectus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sp?kt/, /?s?p?kt/
- Hyphenation: as?pect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
aspect n (plural aspecten, diminutive aspectje n)
- aspect, element
- aspect, appearance
- (linguistics) aspect (grammatical category)
Derived terms
- aspectueel
Descendants
- Afrikaans: aspek
- ? Indonesian: aspek
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aspectus. The grammatical sense is a semantic loan from Russian ??? (vid).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.p?/
- Rhymes: -?
- Homophone: aspects
Noun
aspect m (plural aspects)
- aspect
- (grammar) aspect (grammatical quality of a verb)
Further reading
- “aspect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French aspect, Latin aspectus.
Noun
aspect n (plural aspecte)
- aspect, look
Synonyms
- înf??i?are
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