What is the difference between quad and em?
quad | em | Synonyms |
(informal) A quadrangle (courtyard).
*2014 , Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly,
*: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.
(informal) A quadruplet (infant).
short for quadrilateral
(informal) A quadriceps muscle.
Four shots of espresso.
A quad bike.
(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.
Having four shots of espresso.
(poker slang) Of or relating to .
(metal type) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
* 1853 , , “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16),
* 1979 , Marshall Lee, Bookmaking ,
* 2005 , Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography , 2nd ed,
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 .
(metal type, 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.
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(typography) A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
(neologism) them (singular).
* {{quote-book
, date = 1986-04-01
, title = The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX macro package
, first = Michael
, last = Spivak
, location = Providence
, publisher = American Mathematical Society
, page = 68
, isbn = 0821829998
, id =
, lccn = 85007506
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=kXzxAAAAMAAJ&q=up+to+Em+to+indicate+Eir
, passage = If the author uses such notation, it should be up to Em to indicate Eir intentions clearly, but there's no harm checking first.
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* {{quote-book
, year = 1997
, title = Doom Patrols : A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism
, first = Steven
, last = Shaviro
, publisher = Serpent's Tail
, location = London
, isbn = 9781852424305
, lccn = 9668813
, page = 138
, passage = I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like.
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* {{quote-book
, year = 2000
, chapter = Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct
, first = Jane
, last = Love
, title = Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work
, editors = Inman, James A.; Sewell, Donna N.
, publisher = Taylor & Francis
, isbn = 0805831711
, id =
, page = 193
, passage = E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves(SIC), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aFKqSzIxCLkC&pg=PA193
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* {{quote-web
, date = 2011-03-15
, title = 89: New Friend
, blog = Riot Nrrd
, first = RJ
, last = Edwards
, url = http://www.riotnrrdcomics.com/2011/03/89-new-friend/
, accessdate = 2012-10-06
, passage = And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender em .
}}
(Scotland, Ireland) a form of hesitant speech, or an expression of uncertainty; um; umm; erm
Quad is a synonym of em.
As nouns the difference between quad and em
is that quad is (informal) a quadrangle (courtyard) or quad can be (metal type) a blank metal block used to fill short lines of type while em is .As a adjective quad
is having four shots of espresso.As a verb quad
is (metal type|transitive|intransitive) to fill spaces in a line of type with quads also quad out .As a pronoun em is
(neologism) them (singular).quad
English
(wikipedia quad)Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:
Derived terms
* quad bike * quad strip * quad ruled * quaddieAdjective
(-)See also
* quadr-, quadri- * quadru- * quinEtymology 2
1785 Quads.'' pl, 1847 ''quads , verb 1876. From the abbreviation , for obsolete quadrat. Keyboard command is named for the verb sense.Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)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.
p 110:
- Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads'' . The fractions are called ''spaces .
p 91:
- Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
Synonyms
* em space * quadrat (obsolete)Derived terms
* em quad, * en quad * mutton quad * quad center/quad centre, quad left, quad middle, quad rightVerb
em
English
Etymology 1
The typographic em is named after the metal type for the capital (M) in early printing, whose body was square (the printed letter M is almost never one em in width).Noun
(en noun)- The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.
Synonyms
* (typography) quad, em quad * (typography) mutton, mutDerived terms
* emcee * em dashSee also
*Etymology 2
(Spivak pronouns) Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from (them), perhaps influenced by (term, 'em).Pronoun
Synonyms
* him or her, * (singular) them * (neologism) hirDerived terms
* (neologism) emselfSee also
* other gender-neutral pronounsEtymology 3
Interjection
(en interjection)- She was going to, em ... the salon, I think.