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Quirk vs Quark - What's the difference?

quirk | quark |

As nouns the difference between quirk and quark

is that quirk is an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone while quark is in the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.

As a verb quirk

is to move with a wry jerk.

quirk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone
    • The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks .
  • (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit
  • (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.

    • Derived terms

    * quirky

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To move with a wry jerk.
    • He quirked an eyebrow.
    The corners of her mouth quirked .

    quark

    English

    (wikipedia quark)

    Etymology 1

    First used in 1963 by one of the theorists who postulated the existence of quarks, Wikipedia article.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (particle) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
  • * 1993 , Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — (James Gleick), Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity,
  • (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
    • Derived terms
    * antiquark
    Related terms
    * quarkonic
    See also
    * beauty quark * bottom quark * charm quark * down quark * strange quark * top quark * truth quark * up quark

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) Quark, from late (etyl) twarc, from a (etyl) language, compare (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * qvark

    Noun

    (-)
  • A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
    • See also
    * curd

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeia, from the sound of the squawk.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
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