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quartet
English
Alternative forms
- quartette
Etymology
From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw??(?)?t?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
quartet (plural quartets)
- (music) A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
- (music) The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts.
- (music) A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony.
- Any group of four, especially people.
- Synonyms: foursome, tetrad; see also Thesaurus:quartet
- 2015, Tony Holmes, American Eagles: US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939-1945
- The last of the quartet of American fighter pilots to join the RAF before the war was Cyril 'Pussy' Palmer, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1918.
Translations
See also
- barbershop quartet
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kw???t?t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kw?r?t?t/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kwa??tet/
Noun
quartet m (plural quartets)
- quartet
Further reading
- “quartet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “quartet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “quartet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “quartet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Noun
quartet m (plural quartets)
- quartet
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quad
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kw?d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kw?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Latin.
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- Four shots of espresso.
- (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.
Adjective
quad (not comparable)
- Having four shots of espresso.
Derived terms
See also
- quadr-, quadri-
- quadru-
- quin
Etymology 2
Clippings.
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- (informal) A quadrangle (courtyard).
- 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:
- Every spring, the quad on the University of Washington (UW) campus transforms from a peaceful green space to a bustling habitat for hundreds of shuttering cameras, families, and onlookers.
- 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:
- (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
- (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
- 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making (page 91)
- Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.
- 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making (page 91)
- (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
- (informal) A quadriplegic person.
- (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
- (informal) A quadcopter.
Derived terms
Adjective
quad (not comparable)
- (poker slang) Of or relating to quads.
Translations
Etymology 3
Abbreviation
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (1015 BTU)
See also
- Quad (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
Verb
quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)
- to ride a quad bike
Etymology 4
1785 Quads. pl, 1847 quads, verb 1876. From the abbreviation quad., for obsolete quadrat. Keyboard command is named for the verb sense.
Alternative forms
- quad. (obsolete)
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16), p 148:
- “Quadrats, sir. We call 'em quads.” . . . Quads are the spaces left between the paragraphs that come white on the paper. If you look here, at this page that is set-up, you will see that they are deeper than the spaces left between the words and letters—regular little trenches.
- 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p 110:
- Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.
- 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed, p 91:
- Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16), p 148:
- (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting) A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.
Synonyms
- em space
- quadrat (obsolete)
Derived terms
Verb
quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)
- (letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
Dutch
Etymology
From English quad.
Pronunciation
Noun
quad m (plural quads, diminutive quadje n)
- quad, quad bike
Italian
Noun
quad m (invariable)
- quad bike
Polish
Etymology
From English quad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw?t/
Noun
quad m inan
- quad bike
- Synonyms: czteroko?owiec, wsz?do?az
Declension
Further reading
- quad in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- quad in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Noun
quad f (plural quads)
- all-terrain vehicle
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- what quadrilaterals have congruent diagonals
- what quadrant is the spleen in
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- what quadrilateral is not a parallelogram
- what quadrilateral is not a trapezoid
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