Advantage vs Quality - What's the difference?
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Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
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(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians ii. 11
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport:
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
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To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
(reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.
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(uncountable) Level of excellence
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(countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
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(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)
(uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
(thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
(emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
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As nouns the difference between advantage and quality
is that advantage is any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end while quality is (uncountable) level of excellence.As a verb advantage
is to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.As an adjective quality is
being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.advantage
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Alternative forms
* advauntage (obsolete)Noun
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- Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
- the advantages of a close alliance
- Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
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- Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.
- And with advantage means to pay thy love.
Synonyms
* foredeal, benefit, value, edge * vantageAntonyms
* disadvantage, drawbackDerived terms
* advantage ground * advantageous * advantageously * advantageousness * have the advantage * take advantageVerb
(advantag)- No man of courage vouchsafeth to advantage himselfe of that which is common unto many.
Usage notes
* Some authorities object to the use of advantage as a verb meaning "to provide with an advantage".Synonyms
* favor, favorise * benefitDerived terms
* advantageableReferences
* ----quality
English
Noun
- This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality .
- Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
- One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.
- While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
- Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
- A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality .
- Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
- To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (a property that differentiates) quiddityDerived terms
(quality) * human quality * industrial quality * quality time * quality of life * the quality, the Quality * total quality management * qualitativeAdjective
(en adjective)- We only sell quality products.
- That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
- A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
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- I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .
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- For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.
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- A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.