Quality vs Repute - What's the difference?

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Quality is a related term of repute.

As a noun quality

is (uncountable) level of excellence.

As an adjective quality

is being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

As a verb repute is

quality

English

Noun

(uncountable) Level of excellence

This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality .

Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.

(countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.

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.

(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)

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.

(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.

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 also

Coordinate terms

* (a property that differentiates) quiddity

Derived terms

(quality) * human quality * industrial quality * quality time * quality of life * the quality, the Quality * total quality management * qualitative

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

We only sell quality products.

That was a quality game by Jim Smith.

A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.

* Harriet (a Cambridge University student), quoted in John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education , Routledge (2003), ISBN 978-0-415-25722-0, page 114:

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 . . .

* 2004 , Vance M. Thompson, MD, in J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith (editors), LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls , SLACK Incorporated, ISBN 978-1-55642-622-3, page 187:

For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.

* 2008 , Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4165-5342-7, page 144:

A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.

Derived terms

* qualityness

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repute

English

Noun

(-)

Reputation, especially a good reputation.

*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Verb

(reput)

To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.

To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

* Bible, Job xviii. 3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

* Shakespeare

The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

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