Meaning of Quad | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An informal strategic forum between the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, focused on Asian security matters.
   informal
2. A coalition committee that resolved party disputes during the Cameron–Clegg coalition.
   UK, historical
3. Clipping of quadrat.
   obsolete
4. A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
   obsolete
5. A grouping of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India.
   broadly
6. A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
   obsolete, slang
7. 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.
   obsolete
8. A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
   informal
9. A horse, from colloquial or humorous quadruped specifically for horse.
   colloquial, dated
10. Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.
11. A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
12. A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
13. A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
14. A skate with four wheels.
15. Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
16. A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.
17. A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
18. A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
    informal
19. A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
20. The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
    Mormonism
21. Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
    attributive, slang
22. The quadriceps muscle.
    informal
23. Quadruplex videotape.
    informal
24. A quadriplegic person.
    informal
25. A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (10¹⁵ BTU).
26. A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
27. A quadrilateral.
    informal
28. A quadcopter.
    informal
29. A quadrupel beer.
    informal

Equivalents

Examples

““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.”

“Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.”

“Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.”

“Gilt-backed books on gilded shelf or table caught the eye, and as you turned your glance from the luxurious interiors to the well-shorn lawn in the Quad with its classic fountain also gilded by sunbeams, the mental vision saw plainly written over the whole "The Union of Luxury and Learning."”

“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.”

“The teenage couple is lounging on the lawn outside a high school, taking advantage of a free period between classes in that age-old way: making out on the quad.”

“The quads is all right, barrin’ that the bay is blind o’ the left eye, and the chestnut a bit weak in the off fore.”

“A grande iced quad latte with milk is $6.65 + tax, whereas a quad over ice with milk added at the self-serve station is only $3.65 + tax”

“These are the quads I recommend for newbies.”

“When you can skate, inline, ice, quads are all equally enjoyable as long as they are of good enough quality.”

“The Pair, Triples, and Quads can be formed with both Honor and Suit Tiles.”

“Object of the game: To use up all the tiles by playing them in quads. A quad is four consecutive numbers running in ascending or descending order, and played in a straight line.”

“Each person on the team could be exclusively responsible for taking care of and keeping records for one set of four plants (a quad).”

“My husband Jim was home[…] and so were my children: Samantha, 4, and the quadruplets, Zachary, Danielle, Amanda, and Elisabeth. The quads were eighteen months old and in their usual fine form — singing, banging, pushing each other, and toddling into impossible places.”

“Both players had four of a kind. A had quad fours; B had quad deuces.”

“Aesthetics aside, if you train your quads while neglecting your hamstrings, you're setting yourself up for an eventual injury.”

“The high band color quadruplex format is recommended for the following reasons: 1. Quad is now the accepted industry standard world-wide with over 90% of all television broadcast operations using this format for video recording.”

“The worse was the realization that this was my new reality. This too was Bill's debut as a husband of a quad and his first social gathering since June 22.”

“Cad was a ferocious driver of a quad, much given to wheelies, jumps and stunts in general.”

“System Rasterization Primitives • Polygons • Triangles, Trapezoids, Quads”

“schemes have appeared which generate good results when applied to meshes which contain both triangular and quadrilateral regions. These kinds of schemes turn out to be very useful for modelling animations, because there, in symmetric (e.g. cylindrical) areas, quads and vertices with valence 4 are preferred”

“Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.”

“Today you can buy quadrotor drones—also known as quadcopters—of just about any kind, for just about any price. The extremely wealthy can buy gold-plated quads, and the rest of us can buy tiny plastic ones.”

“So what’s the beer for this great dish? You guessed it — Belgian quad. “I don’t usually pair the same beer with the one used in the recipe,” Bill explains, “but drinking a great quad with this dish really elevates both the food and the beer in a special way.””

“China has seen it as a threat to its dominance in the region, saying the Quad is a U.S. attempt to create an Asian version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization directly aimed at counterbalancing its interests.”

“But coordination in shifts in rates by global groupings like the Group of 7, the Indo-Pacific “Quad” and perhaps the Shangri-La Dialogue in Asia would send a powerful message.”

CEFR level