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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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

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Etymology 2

Clippings.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

  1. (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:
      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.
    • 2021 November 21, Nicole Sperling, “How Do You Make Teen Comedies Today? Buy a High School.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      The teenage couple is lounging on the lawn outside a high school, taking advantage of a free period between classes in that age-old way: making out on the quad.
  2. (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
  5. (informal) A quadriplegic person.
    • 2005, Nancy H. Blose, Behind the Curtain: Living as a Quadriplegic, Lulu Publishing, published 2015, →ISBN, pages 74–75:
      The worse was the realization that this was my new reality. This too was Bill's debut as a husband of a quad and his first social gathering since June 22.
  6. (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
  7. (informal) A quadrupel beer.
  8. (informal) A quadcopter.
    • 2017 May 19, Ed Darack, “A Brief History of Quadrotors”, in Air & Space Magazine‎:
      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.
  9. 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.
  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.
  2. quadrile
Derived terms
Translations
quadrangle — see quadrangle
quadruplet — see quadruplet
quadrilateral — see quadrilateral

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.
    • 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

Abbreviation

Noun

quad (plural quads)

  1. A quad bike.
  2. Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (1015 BTU)
Translations
quad bike — see quad bike
See also

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

Noun

quad (plural quads)

  2. (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
    • 1853 April 16, Charles Dickens, Household Words‎, 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.
  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.
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Derived terms
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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.

Basque

Etymology

From English quad.

Pronunciation

Noun

quad inan

  1. quad bike

Declension

Declension of quad (inanimate, ending in consonant)
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

  • "quad" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

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quad

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English quad.

Pronunciation

Noun

quad m inan

  1. quad bike
    Synonyms: czterokołowiec, wszędołaz, kład

Declension

Declension of quad
singular plural
nominative quad quady
genitive quada quadów
dative quadowi quadom
accusative quad quady
instrumental quadem quadami
locative quadzie quadach
vocative quadzie quady

Further reading

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

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English qued, from Old English cwēad.

Pronunciation

Adjective

quad (comparative quader)

  1. (Middle Scots) evil, wicked, bad

Usage notes

Only the comparative is attested.

Further reading

Spanish

Noun

quad f (plural quads)

  1. all-terrain vehicle

Further reading

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