quad
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kwɑd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɒd/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun edit
quad (plural quads)
- A serving of 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 edit
quad (not comparable)
- Having four shots of espresso.
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Etymology 2 edit
Clippings.
Noun edit
quad (plural quads)
- (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 38:
- Gilt-backed books on gilded shelf or table caught the eye, and as you turned your glance from the luxurious interiors to the well-shorn lawn in the Quad with its classic fountain also gilded by sunbeams, the mental vision saw plainly written over the whole "The Union of Luxury and Learning."
- 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus[1]:
- 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.
- (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.
- (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
- 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:
- Aesthetics aside, if you train your quads while neglecting your hamstrings, you're setting yourself up for an eventual injury.
- (informal) A quadriplegic person.
- (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
- (informal) A quadcopter.
- 2017 May 19, Ed Darack, “A Brief History of Quadrotors”, in Air & Space Magazine[3]:
- Today you can buy quadrotor drones—also known as quadcopters—of just about any kind, for just about any price. The extremely wealthy can buy gold-plated quads, and the rest of us can buy tiny plastic ones.
- A skate with four wheels.
- 2018, Elicia Hyder, Lights Out Lucy: Roller Derby 101:
- These are the quads I recommend for newbies.
- 2014, Brigitte Legendre, A Skater's Business, page 16:
- When you can skate, inline, ice, quads are all equally enjoyable as long as they are of good enough quality.
- (skating) Clipping of quadruple (“kind of jump in figure skating”).
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Adjective edit
quad (not comparable)
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Translations edit
Verb edit
quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)
- (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- 1901, Report of the Industrial Commission on Transportation, page 232:
- Can you "quad" the cable?
- 1961, Telecommunications, page 690:
- The star quadding of the wires ensures a reduction in the diameters of cables and their weight […]
- 1965, Telephone Cable Splicing: Cable Terminations and Cable Repairs, United States. Department of the Army, page 906:
- The conductors in quadded cables are tinned and may also be enameled.
Etymology 3 edit
Abbreviation
Noun edit
quad (plural quads)
- A quad bike.
- Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (1015 BTU)
Translations edit
See also edit
- Quad (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb edit
quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)
- to ride a quad bike
Etymology 4 edit
1785 Quads. pl, 1847 quads, verb 1876. From the abbreviation quad., for obsolete quadrat. Keyboard command is named for the verb sense.
Alternative forms edit
- quad. (obsolete)
Noun edit
quad (plural quads)
- (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- 1853 April 16, Charles Dickens, Household Words[4], number 160, page 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, page 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.
- (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.
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Verb edit
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.
Basque edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quad inan
Declension edit
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | quad | quada | quadak |
ergative | quadek | quadak | quadek |
dative | quadi | quadari | quadei |
genitive | quaden | quadaren | quaden |
comitative | quadekin | quadarekin | quadekin |
causative | quadengatik | quadarengatik | quadengatik |
benefactive | quadentzat | quadarentzat | quadentzat |
instrumental | quadez | quadaz | quadez |
inessive | quadetan | quadean | quadetan |
locative | quadetako | quadeko | quadetako |
allative | quadetara | quadera | quadetara |
terminative | quadetaraino | quaderaino | quadetaraino |
directive | quadetarantz | quaderantz | quadetarantz |
destinative | quadetarako | quaderako | quadetarako |
ablative | quadetatik | quadetik | quadetatik |
partitive | quadik | — | — |
prolative | quadtzat | — | — |
Further reading edit
- "quad" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quad m (plural quads)
- Clipping of quadricicle.
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Etymology edit
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
quad m (plural quads, diminutive quadje n)
Italian edit
Noun edit
quad m (invariable)
Old High German edit
Verb edit
quad
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English quad.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quad m inan
- quad bike
- Synonyms: czterokołowiec, wszędołaz, kład
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Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English qued, from Old English cwēad.
Pronunciation edit
- (Early Scots) IPA(key): [kwad]
- (Early Middle Scots) IPA(key): [kwad]
- (Late Middle Scots) IPA(key): [kwad]
Adjective edit
quad (comparative quader)
- (Middle Scots) evil, wicked, bad
Usage notes edit
Only the comparative is attested.
Further reading edit
- “quad”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
Spanish edit
Noun edit
quad f (plural quads)
Further reading edit
- “quad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014