quad
See also: quad-
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin.
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- 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
quad (not comparable)
- Having four shots of espresso.
Derived terms
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Clipping
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- (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.
- 2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:
- (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
- (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.
- 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making (page 91)
- (informal) A quadriceps muscle.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Adjective
quad (not comparable)
Translations
quadrangle — see quadrangle
quadruplet — see quadruplet
quadrilateral — see quadrilateral
Etymology 3
Abbreviation
Noun
quad (plural quads)
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (1015 BTU)
See also
- Quad (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
quad bike — see quad bike
Verb
quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)
- 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)
- (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.
- 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
Derived terms
Derived terms
Verb
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.
Dutch
Etymology
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Audio: (file)
Noun
quad m (plural quads, diminutive quadje n)
Italian
Noun
quad m (uncountable)
Spanish
Noun
quad f (plural quads)
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