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.
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.
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
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”).
Derived terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
quad (not comparable)
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, 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, 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.
- 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[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
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.
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
quad m (plural quads)
- Clipping of quadricicle.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- quad in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- quad in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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
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