Squad vs Quad - What's the difference?
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A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
* 1912 , in The New England magazine , volume 47:
(cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
(UK, dialect) sloppy mud
(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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As nouns the difference between squad and quad
is that squad is a group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members while quad is a quadrangle courtyard.As an adjective quad is
having four shots of espresso.As a verb quad is
to fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.squad
English
(wikipedia squad)Alternative forms
* escouade (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
- (Tennyson)
Derived terms
* flying squadSee also
*Anagrams
*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.