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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?n/, [k?w??n]
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: Quinn

Etymology 1

Noun

quin (plural quins)

1. (informal) A quintuplet.

Related terms

• quad

Etymology 2

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

Noun

quin (plural quins)

1. A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.
   • 1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution (page 104)

     Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kin/

Adjective

quin (feminine quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quines)

1. (interrogative) which, what
2. what a

Related terms

• qui

Further reading

• “quin” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/

Interjection

quin

1. (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

Ido

Pronoun

quin

1. (interrogative) whom (plural) (object)

Usage notes

To ask for a subject, use qui instead.

Latin

Etymology

From instrumental qu? + ne.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?i?n/, [k?i?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwin/, [kwin]

Adverb

qu?n (not comparable)

1. (usually with present indicative) how come not, why don't I/you/he ..., how about? (in questioning suggestions)

   Synonyms: quid est quod n?n, c?r n?n, qu?r? n?n?

   1. (in commands with imperative, subjunctive or future) come on, let's, ...then! (adding force)

      Synonyms: age, fac
2. (emphatic) Used to corroborate or amplify the previous statement: and even, and in fact
   1. Strengthened by various adverbs:
   2. Used to emphasise an objection to the previous statement: why, but ...!

Conjunction

qu?n

1. (used with a negative like n?m? or n?llus) who does/can/would not (usually following a nominative)

   Synonym: qu?/quae/quod n?n (in the nominative mostly)
2. (used with a negative like numquam or n?n) without (something happening), (so) that...not

   Synonym: ut n?n
3. (preceded by n?n, followed by sed quod/quia) not because not...but, not that not...but

   Synonym: (n?n) quod/quia...n?n
4. (with negated verbs of stopping, hindering) from doing or happening

   Synonym: qu?minus, n?
5. (used with negated words of hesitation, doubting, not knowing) that

References

• “qu?n” on page 1712 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• quin in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quin in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quin in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin quinam (who, which). Cognate with Catalan quin and with Franco-Provençal quint from a merging of Latin quinam and quantus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kin/

Adjective

quin m (feminine singular quina, masculine plural quins, feminine plural quinas)

1. (interrogative) which

2. (interrogative) what

3. (exclamative) what

Synonyms

• qual (for animate objects)
• que (for inanimate objects)

Derived terms

• quinament

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Latin.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. Four shots of espresso.
2. (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
3. (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
4. A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.

Adjective

quad (not comparable)

1. Having four shots of espresso.

Derived terms

See also

• quadr-, quadri-
• quadru-
• quin

Etymology 2

Clippings.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. (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.

2. (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
3. (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.

4. (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
5. (informal) A quadriplegic person.
6. (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
7. (informal) A quadrupel beer.
8. (informal) A quadcopter.

Derived terms

Adjective

quad (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) Of or relating to quads.

Translations

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. A quad bike (from quadricycle)
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. (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.

2. (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
3. (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)

1. (letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
2. (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)

1. quad, quad bike

Italian

Noun

quad m (invariable)

1. quad bike

Polish

Etymology

From English quad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?t/

Noun

quad m inan

1. 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)

1. all-terrain vehicle