different between quine vs quite

English

Etymology

Decapitalization of Quine.Named after philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine.Senses related to self-reference are coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1979 in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach (referencing the paradox named after him), while the verb sense of “to deny the importance or significance of something” was independently coined by Daniel Dennett in The Philosophical Lexicon.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kwa?n/

Noun

quine (plural quines)

1. (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.
   • 1994, John David Regehr, a quine in C++?, comp.lang.misc, Usenet

     This has been bugging me recently. Any quines or pointers to relevant articles or web pages is appreciated. Thanks!

   • 1999, Gergo Barany, Re: CC hack?, comp.lang.c, Usenet

     There was also a quine thread here in comp.lang.c just days ago, search deja.com (the thread's title was something about self-printing programs, I think).

   • 2002, Clinton Pierce, Perl Developer's Dictionary, Sams Publishing ?ISBN, page 269

     Most quines are notoriously difficult (and fiendish) to write. Perl can cheat, though. :)

   • 2003, Arthur J. O'Dwyer, Re: "A to Z of C", comp.lang.c, Usenet

     Why have a one-page chapter that doesn't say anything? At the least, you should present a quine program written in pure ISO C (I can send you one if you like); […]

   • 2004, David Darling, The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 264

     Although writing a quine is not always easy, and in fact may seem impossible, it can always be done in any programming language that is Turing complete (see Turing machine), which includes every programming language actually in use.

   • 2005, Simon Cozens, Advanced Perl Programming, O'Reilly Media ?ISBN, page 260

     SelfGOL can reproduce itself; it can turn other programs into a quine; it can display a scrolling banner; it plays the Game of Life; and it contains no (ordinary) loops, goto statements, or if statements. Control flow is done, well, interestingly.

   • 2008, Uwe Seifert, Jin-hyun Kim, Anthony Moore, Paradoxes of Interactivity: Perspectives for Media Theory, Human-computer Interaction, and Artistic Investigations, transcript Verlag ?ISBN, page 179

     Yet from a different perspective, it describes the process of producing this very code; in other words, it is because object- and meta-language interrelate that makes a quine difficult; in less reflective programs, where means and ends are more separate, this difficulty is not so obvious.

   • 2009, Mike Ash, Re: 406 Not Acceptable (was Re: "--All You Zombies--" title), rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet

     Gee, last time I wrote a quine in Lisp it ended up being kind of difficult...

   • 2011, Antoine Amarilli et al., "Can Code Polymorphism Limit Information Leakage?", Information Security Theory and Practice: Security and Privacy of Mobile Devices in Wireless Communication (edited by Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Jianying Zhou), Springer ?ISBN, page 14 [1]

     The solution is to make a quine that is also a ?-expression (instead of a list of statements). This is possible, thanks to S-expressions. The way the quine works relies on the fact that its code is a list of statements and that the last one can take a list of the previous ones as arguments.

   • 2012, Pietro Liò, Dinesh Verma, Biologically Inspired Networking and Sensing: Algorithms and Architectures, IGI Global Snippet ?ISBN

     Quines exist for any programming language that is Turing complete and it is a common challenge for students to come up with a Quine in their language of choice. The Quine Page provides a comprehensive list of such programs in various languages.

   • 2013, Brian, Re: "Mountains will be Mountains", talk.religion.buddhism, Usenet

     Upon receiving a "QUINE" request by the client, the server will first send a 01 OK response, and will then provide the client with a quine in the programming language used to implement the server.

Translations

Verb

quine (third-person singular simple present quines, present participle quining, simple past and past participle quined)

1. (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.
   • 1993, Howard Margolis, Paradigms and Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs, University of Chicago Press ?ISBN, page 62

     As with the puzzle of what happens during the combustion of a metal in pure oxygen (the "steel wool" experiment), this result can of course be quined. Taking the phlogistic view, we could say that the calx requires the same phlogiston content as the metal, so of course the amount of water absorbed must be in accord with that.

   • 1999, Denis Fisette, Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution, Springer ?ISBN, page 119

     They deny that mental states and events actually possess the qualitative properties attributed to them by qualia friends and, as a consequence, they advocate quining qualia.

   • 2000, Don Ross, Introduction: The Dennettian Stance in 2000, Don Ross, Andrew Brook and David Thompson, Dennett’s Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 14:

     Qualia are quined not because Dennett imagines that there is nothing it is like to be conscious, but because no clear demarcation can be drawn between representations of qualitative properties and representations of other sorts of states.

   • 2001, Nenad Miscevic, "Quining the apriori", Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine (edited by A. Orenstein, P. Kotatko), Springer ?ISBN, page 95
   • 2003, W. Martin Davies, The Philosophy of Sir William Mitchell (1861-1962): A Mind's Own Place, Edwin Mellen Press Limited, page 182:

     Structure in the phenomenological realm is not something to be “quined”, but fostered.

   • 2003, Roy Sorensen, A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind, Oxford University Press ?ISBN, page 357

     Daniel Dennett's The Philosophical Lexicon defines "quine" as a verb: "to deny the existence or significance of something real or significant". Quine has quined names, intentions, and the distinction between psychology and epistemology. In 1951 Quine quined the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements.

   • 2008, Daniel Barnett, Movement as Meaning: In Experimental Film, Rodopi ?ISBN, page 114

     The private language machine and the evolution of a medium: One of the things that Wittgenstein is most famous for is quining "private language". By saying that private languages can't exist Wittgenstein wanted us to recognize the inescapable function of the social fabric in language's work.

   • 2009, Andrew Pessin, Mental Transparency, Direct Sensaition, and the Unity of the Cartesian Mind in 2009, Jon Miller, Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, Springer, page 34:

     One might object that in this section I’ve not exactly quined Cartesian qualia, […]

2. To append something to a quotation of itself.
   • 1984, Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gödel's Theorem", Mathematics: People, Problems, Results (edited by Douglas M. Campbell, John C. Higgins), Taylor & Francis ?ISBN, page 274

     "Quining" is what I called it in my book. (He certainly didn't call it that!) Quining is an operation that I define on any string of English. […] Here is an example of a quined phrase: "is a sentence with no subject" is a sentence with no subject.

   • 1997, Nathaniel S. Hellerstein, Diamond: A Paradox Logic, World Scientific ?ISBN, page 183

     Diamond arises in Gödelian meta-mathematics. In meta-math, sentences can refer to each other's provability, and to quining. This yields self-reference: T = "is provable when quined" is provable when quined.

   • 2001, Howard Mirowitz, Re: Why is L&T in quotation marks?, rec.music.dylan, Usenet

     In "Love And Theft", Dylan quined the love and theft in his songs in the album's title, "Love And Theft". So the subtext, the meaning of the entire album, when preceded by its quotation, its symbol, yields a paradox.

   • 2001, Jim Evans, Re: Quining for the fjords, rec.humor.oracle.d, Usenet

     And, of course, the existence of various sigmonsters guarantees entire quined-posts.

Related terms

• Quine
• quiner (noun)
• quined (adjective)
• quining (noun)

Further reading

• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003) , “quine”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7
• quine (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Quine's paradox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Scots

Noun

quine (plural quines)

1. Doric form of quean (“young woman, girl”)

English

Alternative forms

• quight (obsolete)

Etymology 1

A development of quit, influence by Anglo-Norman quite.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kw?t, IPA^(key): /kwa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Adverb

quite (not comparable)

1. To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.

   Synonyms: absolutely, fully, thoroughly, totally, utterly; see also Thesaurus:completely

   1. With verbs, especially past participles. [from 14th c.]
      • 2005, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 4 October:

        Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius—and the photographer quite agrees.

   2. With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs. [from 15th c.]
      • 1891, Thomas Nelson Page, On Newfound River:

        Margaret passed quite through the pines, and reached the opening beyond which was what was once the yard, but was now, except for a strip of flower-border and turf which showed care, simply a tangle of bushes and briars.

      • 2010, Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian, 30 October:

        Religion and parochial etiquette are probed to reveal unhealthy, and sometimes shockingly violent, internal desires quite at odds with the surface life of a town in which tolerance is preached.

   3. With predicative adjectives. [from 15th c.]
   4. With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc. [from 16th c.]
      • 2003, Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain:

        When I warned him that his words might be offensive to identical twins, he said that identical twins were a quite different case.

      • 2011, Peter Preston, The Observer, 18 September:

        Create a new, quite separate, private company – say Murdoch Newspaper Holdings – and give it all, or most of, the papers that News Corp owns.

   5. Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions. [from 16th c.]
   6. With adverbs of manner. [from 17th c.]
      • 2009, John F. Schmutz, The Battle of the Crater: A complete history:

        However, the proceedings were quite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.

      • 2011, Bob Burgess, The Guardian, 18 October:

        Higher education institutions in the UK are, quite rightly, largely autonomous.

2. In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
   1. Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.) [from 17th c.]
      • 1898, Charles Gavrice, Nell of Shorne Mills:

        "My little plot has been rather successful, after all, hasn't it?" "Quite a perfect success," said Drake.

      • 2001, Paul Brown, The Guardian, 7 February:

        While the government claims to lead the world with its plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the figures tell quite a different story.

   2. With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs. [from 18th c.]
      • 2010, Dave Hill, The Guardian, 5 November:

        London Underground is quite unique in how many front line staff it has, as anyone who has travelled on the Paris Metro or New York Subway will testify.

   3. Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative. [from 18th c.]
      • 1923, "The New Pictures", Time, 8 October:

        Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen.

   4. Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable. [from 18th c.]
      • 1830, Senate debate, 15 April:

        To debauch the Indians with rum and cheat them of their land was quite a Government affair, and not at all criminal; but to use rum to cheat them of their peltry, was an abomination in the sight of the law.

      • 2011, Gilbert Morris, The Crossing:

        “Looks like you and Clay had quite a party,” she said with a glimmer in her dark blue eyes.

   5. Before a noun preceded by the definite article. [from 18th c.]
      • 2006, Sherman Alexie, "When the story stolen is your own", Time, 6 February:

        His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don't you think?

   6. (now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases. [from 18th c.]
4. To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:moderately

Usage notes

• This is a non-descriptive qualifier, similar to fairly and rather and somewhat. Used where a plain adjective needs to be modified, but cannot be qualified. When spoken, the meaning can vary with the tone of voice and stress. He was quite big can mean anything from "not exactly small" to "almost huge".

Derived terms

• quite a few

Translations

Interjection

quite

1. (chiefly Britain) Indicates agreement; exactly so.

Etymology 2

From Spanish quite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ki?te?/

Noun

quite (plural quites)

1. (bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.

Anagrams

• quiet

Galician

Verb

quite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of quitar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of quitar

Latin

Verb

qu?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of que?

Old French

Adjective

quite m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quite)

1. Alternative form of quitte

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese quite, from Old French quitte (“free; liberated”), from Latin qui?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ki.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ki.t??i/
  • Homophone: kiti
• Hyphenation: qui?te

Adjective

quite (plural quites, comparable)

1. quit (released from obligation)
2. settled
3. divorced

Derived terms

• estamos quites

Verb

quite

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of quitar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of quitar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of quitar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of quitar

Spanish

Noun

quite m (plural quites)

1. the action of removal
2. a swerve or sidestep

Derived terms

Verb

quite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of quitar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of quitar