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Quad vs Quod - What's the difference?

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Quod is a alternative form of quad.



As nouns the difference between quad and quod

is that quad is a quadrangle courtyard while quod is a quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.

As verbs the difference between quad and quod

is that quad is to fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out while quod is quoth.

As an adjective quad

is having four shots of espresso.

quad

English

(wikipedia quad)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A quadrangle (courtyard).
  • *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.
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * quad bike * quad strip * quad ruled * quaddie

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having four shots of espresso.
  • (poker slang) Of or relating to .

    • See also

    * quadr-, quadri- * quadru- * quin

    Etymology 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)
  • (metal type) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
  • * 1853 , , “Household Words”, n 160 (April 16), 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.
  • * 1979 , Marshall Lee, Bookmaking , p 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.
  • 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 .
    • Synonyms
    * em space * quadrat (obsolete)
    Derived terms
    * em quad, * en quad * mutton quad * quad center/quad centre, quad left, quad middle, quad right

    Verb

  • (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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    quod

    English

    Alternative forms

    * quad

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
  • * 1863 , '', quoted in 1995, Seán McConville, ''English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death , page 69,
    • not the poorer classes merely, but the rich will be desirous to enjoy the mingled luxury and comfort of a gaol: and we shall hear of blasé Swells become burglars and garotters as a prelude to a prison, and, instead of taking tours for restoration of their health, recruiting it more cheaply by a residence in quod .
  • * 1878 , John Wrathall Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia , page 264,
    • .
  • * 2000 , R.I.C. Publications, Workbook E: Society and Environment , page 48,
    • From 1855-1903 a chapel was built, the boat shed and holding cell constructed, Government House was constructed as a summer residence for the Governor and the Quod (slang for prison) was constructed.
  • * 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push , page 202,
    • Pity McNamara?s still doing his stretch in the quod , but he?ll be out soon.
  • (uncountable, Australia, slang) Confinement in a prison.
  • * Acquaintance of , paperback ISBN 0-7333-1502-X, page 7,
    • I don?t suppose you'll get more than a couple of months? quod for them.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) Quoth.
  • * 14thC , '', 2009, Robert Boenig, Andrew Taylor (editors), ''The Canterbury Tales: A Selection , page 190,
    • “No fors,” quod he, “but tel me al youre grief.”
  • * 1563 , '', 1868, ''The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period , Volume 8, Part 1, page 422,
    • “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”
  • * 1908 , , Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey , 2010, Cambridge University Press, page 416,
    • “And therefore I have granted to their request,” quod the King;.
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