Quadded
[kwod] /kwɒd/ Printing.
noun
1.
Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
verb (used with object), quadded, quadding.
2.
to space out (matter) by means of quads.
/kwɒd/
noun
1.
short for quadrangle (sense 2)
/kwɒd/
noun
1.
(printing) a block of type metal used for spacing
/kwɒd/
noun
1.
a variant spelling of quod
/kwɒd/
noun
1.
short for quadruplet (sense 1)
/kwɒd/
adjective, noun
1.
short for quadraphonic or quadraphonics See quadraphonic
noun
2.
(anatomy) short for quadriceps
noun
See quad bike
1820 as a shortening of quadrangle (n.) in the building sense (in this case “quadrangle of a college,” Oxford student slang); 1880 as short for quadrat (n.); 1896 as quadruplet (n.), originally “bicycle for four riders;” later “one of four young at a single birth” (1951, of armadillos); 1970 as quadraphonic (adj.). Related: Quads.
noun
[said to be a shortening of quadrilateral, ”square”]
1.
quadraphonic
2.
quadriceps (thigh muscle)
3.
quadruplet
quadrangle
Read Also:
- Quadrupedal
[kwod-roo-ped] /ˈkwɒd rʊˌpɛd/ adjective 1. . noun 2. an animal, especially a mammal, having four feet. /ˈkwɒdrʊˌpɛd/ noun 1. an animal, esp a mammal, that has all four limbs specialized for walking adjective 2. having four feet n. 1640s, from French quadrupède (16c.), from Latin quadrupes (genitive quadrupedis) “four-footed, on all fours,” also, as a […]
- Quadruple
[kwo-droo-puh l, -druhp-uh l, kwod-roo-puh l] /kwɒˈdru pəl, -ˈdrʌp əl, ˈkwɒd rʊ pəl/ adjective 1. fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance. 2. four times as great. 3. Music. having four beats to a measure. noun 4. a number, amount, etc., four times as great as another. 5. something, as a series of acrobatic […]
- Quadruple bucky
Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta […]
- Quadrupled
[kwo-droo-puh l, -druhp-uh l, kwod-roo-puh l] /kwɒˈdru pəl, -ˈdrʌp əl, ˈkwɒd rʊ pəl/ adjective 1. fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance. 2. four times as great. 3. Music. having four beats to a measure. noun 4. a number, amount, etc., four times as great as another. 5. something, as a series of acrobatic […]
- Quadruple-double
verb See quadruple double