quad – English noun declension

English noun forms of quad

Noun: quad
Singularquad
Pluralquads

Sample Sentences

  • “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. [1853 April 16, Charles Dickens, Household Words, number 160, page 148:]
  • Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces. [1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110:]
  • Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines. [2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91:]
  • 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." [1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 38:]
  • 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. [2014, Walker Orenstein, for Norwest Asian Weekly, Cherry trees from Japan to grace UW campus:]
  • 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. [2021 November 21, Nicole Sperling, “How Do You Make Teen Comedies Today? Buy a High School.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • 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. [1934, John Buchan, The Free Fishers, page 258:]
  • 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 [2023 May 7, Josh, “How to Order a Quad Over Ice + Fun Alternatives”, in Angry Espresso, archived from the original on 28 May 2023:]
  • These are the quads I recommend for newbies. [2018, Elicia Hyder, Lights Out Lucy: Roller Derby 101:]
  • When you can skate, inline, ice, quads are all equally enjoyable as long as they are of good enough quality. [2014, Brigitte Legendre, A Skater's Business, page 16:]
  • The Pair, Triples, and Quads can be formed with both Honor and Suit Tiles. [1991, Alain Gelbman, Mah Jong: One Step at a Time, page 7:]
  • 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. [1999, Jennifer Kelley, Great Book of Domino Games, page 70:]
  • Each person on the team could be exclusively responsible for taking care of and keeping records for one set of four plants (a quad). [2002, Experiments with Plants: teacher’s guide, page 18:]
  • 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. [1980, Linda Schreiber, Marathon Mom: The Wife and Mother Running Book, page 18:]
  • Both players had four of a kind. A had quad fours; B had quad deuces. [2001, Alfred Alvarez, Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats, page 90:]
  • Aesthetics aside, if you train your quads while neglecting your hamstrings, you're setting yourself up for an eventual injury. [2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:]
  • 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. [1975, [US] House Subcommittee on Communications, Telecommunications Facilities and Demonstration Act of 1975, page 11:]
  • 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. [2005, Nancy H. Blose, Behind the Curtain: Living as a Quadriplegic, Lulu Publishing, published 2015, →ISBN, pages 74–75:]
  • Cad was a ferocious driver of a quad, much given to wheelies, jumps and stunts in general. [2000, Sam Llewellyn, Wonder Dog, page 20:]
  • System Rasterization Primitives • Polygons • Triangles, Trapezoids, Quads [1989, ACM SIGGRAPH '89 Course Notes, New York: Association for Computing Machinery, page 48:]
  • 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 [2006, Koen Beets, Johan Claes, Frank Van Reeth, “Optimizing Mesh Construction for Quad/Triangle Schemes”, in Hans-Peter Seidel, Tomoyuki Nishita, Qunsheng Peng, editors, Advances in Computer Graphics, page 711:]
  • 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. [2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making, page 91:]
  • 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. [2017 May 19, Ed Darack, “A Brief History of Quadrotors”, in Air & Space Magazine:]
  • 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.” [2012, Bruce Glassman, Brew Food: Great Beer-inspired Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts, page 142:]

Etymology

1. Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
2. The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense. See: Latin Nouns 'quattuor'.

Verbs referencing "quad"

Dutch Nouns quad, Spanish Nouns quad.