Quad vs Quag - What's the difference?
quad | quag |
(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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(obsolete) quagmire; marsh; bog.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1771
, date = December 16
, first = John
, last = Walker
, authorlink =
, title = Account of the Irruption of Solway Moss
, passage = If a person ventures on one of these quags , it bends in waves under his feet; and if the surface breaks, he is in danger of sinking to the bottom.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1784
, first = William
, last = Cowper
, authorlink = William Cowper
, title = Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools
, passage = Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells
}}
As nouns the difference between quad and quag
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 quag is (obsolete) quagmire; marsh; bog.As an 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 .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.
