quad

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English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwɑd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwɒd/
• Rhymes: -ɒd

Etymology 1

From Latin.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. A serving of 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 (quadrangular courtyard).
2. (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
3. (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
4. (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
5. (informal) A quadriplegic person.
6. (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
7. (informal) A quadrupel beer.
8. (informal) A quadcopter.
9. A skate with four wheels.
10. (skating) Clipping of quadruple (“kind of jump in figure skating”).

Derived terms

Adjective

quad (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) Of or relating to quads.

Translations

Verb

quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)

1. (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. A quad bike.
2. Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (10¹⁵ BTU)

Translations

See also

• Quad (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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)

2. (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.

   • 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed, p 91:

     Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.

3. (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
4. (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.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkwat/

Noun

quad m (plural quads)

1. Clipping of quadricicle.

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

Old High German

Verb

quad

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of quedan

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English quad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: quad

Noun

quad m inan

1. quad bike

   Synonyms: czterokołowiec, wszędołaz, kład

Declension

Further reading

• quad in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• quad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

quad f (plural quads)

1. all-terrain vehicle

Further reading

• “quad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014