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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Quadruple, four times the usual size or quantity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Quadrille, marked with squares.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: paper
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name
An informal strategic forum between the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, focused on Asian security matters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Synonyms: QSD
Antonyms: none provided
name
A grouping of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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name
A coalition committee that resolved party disputes during the Cameron–Clegg coalition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Clipping of quadrat.
A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: letterpress-typography, media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: em quad, em space, quadrat
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noun
Clipping of quadrat.
A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
Topics: media, printing, publishing, typography
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noun
Clipping of quadrat.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Qualifier: phototypesetting and digital typesetting
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A horse, from colloquial or humorous quadruped specifically for horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, dated
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noun
Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.
A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.
A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, skating, sports
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noun
Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.
A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.
A skate with four wheels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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noun
Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, communications, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, telecommunications
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noun
Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, media, radio
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noun
Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: board-games, chess, games
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noun
Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Mormonism
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noun
Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, slang
Topics: card-games, poker
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noun
The quadriceps muscle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Quadruplex videotape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A quadriplegic person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (1015 BTU).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: quad bike, four-wheeler
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ATV, all-terrain vehicle, vehicle
noun
A quadrilateral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
A quadcopter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A quadrupel beer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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verb
To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Topics: letterpress-typography, media, publishing, typography
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verb
To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Qualifier: phototypesetting and digital typesetting
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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verb
To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To ride a quad bike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: quadrangle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: area
noun
(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: space
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: type
Narrower terms: hair space
noun
a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: quadriceps, quadriceps femoris, musculus quadriceps femoris
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extensor muscle, extensor
noun
one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: quadruplet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sibling, sib
History
Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple. The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.
Short for Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.
