different between tri vs quad

English

Etymology

Shortening of words with the initial component derived from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: try

Noun

tri (plural tris)

1. (chiefly attributive) triathlon

   a tri bike

   a tri suit

2. (computer graphics) triangle
   • 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.

Anagrams

• IRT, RTI, TIR, Tir, rit

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tr?(-?), from Proto-Indo-European *tri-h2 (“three”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ???? (tría, “three”) and Latin tria (“three”).

Numeral

tri

1. three

Related terms

• tre

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English three.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tri/

Numeral

tri (Bengali script ????)

1. three

Synonyms

• tham
• rongtham
• tiin

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

Bislama

Etymology 1

From English tree.

Noun

tri

1. tree

Etymology 2

From English three.

Numeral

tri

1. three

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral

tri m (feminine form teir)

1. three

Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Standard Cornish) try
• (Standard Written Form) trei

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral

tri m (feminine form teyr)

1. three

Mutation

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

tri n (uncountable)

1. synonym for trichloorethyleen, a chemical solvent

Anagrams

• rit

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ?????? f pl (þrijoz), from Proto-Germanic *þr?z, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)

Numeral

tri

1. three

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ??? (tri), Latin tr?s, English three, etc., all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tri/
• Hyphenation: tri
• Audio:

Numeral

tri

1. three (3)

Derived terms

• trio
• tripunkto (“ellipsis”)

Fanagalo

Etymology

Borrowed from English three.

Numeral

tri

1. three

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tohtori/, [?t?o?xt?o?ri]

Noun

tri

1. Abbreviation of tohtori.

Usage notes

Only used in writing and together with a name, and is thus not inflected. For example in phrase tri Pentti Arajärvi only the family name Arajärvi is inflected.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i/

Noun

tri m (plural tris)

1. selection
2. (computing) sort

Further reading

• “tri” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rit, rît, tir

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto tri, from English three, French trois, German drei, Spanish tres, Italian tre, Russian ??? (tri), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral

tri

1. three (3)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tri, from Sanskrit ???? (tri), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral

tri

1. three

Synonyms

• tiga
• telu

Malay

Alternative forms

• ???? (???-?)

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (tri), from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ri/
• Rhymes: -?ri, -ri, -i

Numeral

tri (Jawi spelling ???)

1. three

Synonyms

• tiga / ????
• telu / ????

Derived terms

• tri-

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English three.

Numeral

tri

1. three

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ?????? (þrijoz) (attested form is feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þr?z. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).

Numeral

tri

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tri?/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ?????? (þrijoz) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þr?z, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir, English three.

Alternative forms

• tre

Numeral

tri m (feminine trjå, neuter try or trju)

1. three; form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by tre

Old Irish

Numeral

tri

1. Alternative spelling of trí

Preposition

tri

1. Alternative form of tre

Mutation

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i/
• Rhymes: -i

Adjective

tri

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) cool, nice, good, interesting

Adverb

tri

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) very

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology 1

From English three.

Numeral

tri

1. three

Etymology 2

From English tree.

Noun

tri

1. tree

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tri, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trî?/

Numeral

tr? (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. three (3)

Derived terms

trodnevni

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin tr?s.

Numeral

tri

1. three

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tri, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri/

Numeral

tri

1. three (3)

Coordinate terms

Further reading

• tri in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tri, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trí?/

Numeral

tr?

1. three

Usage notes

This is the usual form used when counting or reciting numbers.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English three.

Numeral

tri

1. three (3)

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also tripela.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology 1

From English three.

Numeral

tri

1. three

Etymology 2

From English tree.

Noun

tri

1. tree

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin tr?s. Compare Italian tre

Numeral

tri m

1. three

Synonyms

• tre

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tri, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tri?/

Numeral

tri m (feminine form tair)

1. three (3)

Usage notes

Tri is used only before grammatically masculine nouns. It triggers the aspirate mutation in the written language, but this is heard only occasionally in speech.

Mutation

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