different between quark vs quar

English

Etymology 1

Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1963. The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later; see the Quark Wikipedia article.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kwôk, IPA^(key): /kw??k/; enPR: kwäk, IPA^(key): /kw??k/
• (General American) enPR: kwôrk, IPA^(key): /kw??k/; enPR: kwärk, IPA^(key): /kw??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k, Rhymes: -??(?)k

Noun

quark (plural quarks)

1. (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
2. (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
   • 2012, Keith D. Gregory, Programming with Motif (page 453)

     Two functions are provided to convert between strings and quarks: XrmStringToQuark and XrmQuarkToString […]

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• hadron
• meson

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Quark, from late Middle High German twarc, from a West Slavic language (compare Polish twaróg), from Proto-Slavic *tvarog?.

Doublet of tvorog.

Noun

quark (uncountable)

1. A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.

Translations

See also

• curd

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of the squawk.

Noun

quark (plural quarks)

1. (Falkland Islands, informal) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

Further reading

• quark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• quark (dairy product) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• quark (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: kwark

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwa?k/

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural [please provide])

1. (physics) quark

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwark/
• Hyphenation: quàrk

Noun

quark m (invariable)

1. (physics) quark

Derived terms

• quarkonio

References

• quark in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?kwa?.k?/, [?kwa?.k?]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

1. (physics) quark (an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Quark.

1. quark (soft creamy cheese)

References

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwa?k/, [?kwa?k]

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

1. quark

   Hypernyms: fermión, partícula elemental

Hyponyms

• (quarks) quark; quark arriba, quark abajo, quark encantado, quark extraño, quark cima, quark fondo ^{(Category: es:Quarks)}

See also

• (fermions) fermión; quark, leptón
• quark on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

English

Noun

quar (plural quars)

1. (obsolete) A quarry

   • A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate / Of state and policy, cut from the quar / Of Machiavel.

2. (slang) quarantine

Verb

quar (third-person singular simple present quars, present participle quarring, simple past and past participle quarred)

1. To choke or block (typically a river)

Albanian

Alternative forms

• quer

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *kl?(u)ra, related to qos. Cognate to Ancient Greek ???????? (kladarós, “fragile”), Old Irish claidim (“to empty”).

Noun

quar m (indefinite plural qore, definite singular quari, definite plural qoret)

1. prison, cellar, shelter

Related terms

• qos

References

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto kvar, French quatre, Italian quattro, Spanish cuatro, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwar/

Numeral

quar

1. four (4)

Old French

Alternative forms

• kar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar/
• Homophones: kar, qar
• Rhymes: -ar

Conjunction

quar

1. for; because; due to this

Descendants

• French: car