Quad

Noun

 * 1)  A quadrangle courtyard.
 * 2)  A quadruplet infant.
 * 3) short for quadrilateral
 * 4)  A quadriceps muscle.
 * 5) Four shots of espresso.
 * 6) A quad bike.

Derived terms

 * quad bike
 * quad strip
 * quaddie

Adjective

 * 1) Having four shots of espresso.
 * 2)  Of or relating to quads.

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Serbo-Croatian: četverokut


 * Finnish: neloset


 * Serbo-Croatian: četvorak


 * Finnish:


 * Serbo-Croatian: četvorina

Etymology 2
1785 Quads. pl, 1847 quads, verb 1876. From the abbreviation quad.:, for obsolete quadrat:. Keyboard command is named for the verb sense.

Alternative forms

 * quad.

Noun

 * 1)  A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
 * 2) * 1853, Charles Dickens, “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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed, p 91:
 * Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
 * 1)  A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
 * 2)  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

Derived terms

 * em quad, 2-em quad, 3-em quad
 * en quad
 * mutton quad
 * quad center, quad centre, quad left, quad middle, quad right

Verb

 * 1)  To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
 * 2)  To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.

Noun

 * 1) quad bike

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