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All 4 letters words made out of quad

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word quad. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in quad.

Definitions and meaning of quad

quad

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwɑd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwɒd/
• Rhymes: -ɒd

Etymology 1

From Latin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. A serving of four shots of espresso.
2. (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
3. (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
4. A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.

Adjective

quad (not comparable)

1. Having four shots of espresso.

Derived terms

See also

• quadr-, quadri-
• quadru-
• quin

Etymology 2

Clippings.

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
2. (informal) A quadruplet (infant).
3. (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
4. (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
5. (informal) A quadriplegic person.
6. (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
7. (informal) A quadrupel beer.
8. (informal) A quadcopter.
9. A skate with four wheels.
10. (skating) Clipping of quadruple (“kind of jump in figure skating”).

Derived terms

Adjective

quad (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) Of or relating to quads.
2. quadrile

Derived terms

• quad paper

Translations

Verb

quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)

1. (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

Noun

quad (plural quads)

1. A quad bike.
2. Abbreviation of quadrillion BTU. (10¹⁵ BTU)

Translations

See also

• Quad (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)

1. to ride a quad bike

Etymology 4

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. (obsolete)

Noun

quad (plural quads)

2. (letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
   • 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed, p 91:

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

3. (printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
4. (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.

Synonyms

• em space
• quadrat (obsolete)

Derived terms

Verb

quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)

1. (letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
2. (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.

Basque

Etymology

From English quad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwad/ [kwað̞]
• Rhymes: -ad

Noun

quad inan

1. quad bike

Declension

Further reading

• "quad" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkwat]

Noun

quad m (plural quads)

1. Clipping of quadricicle.

Dutch

Etymology

From English quad.

Pronunciation

Noun

quad m (plural quads, diminutive quadje n)

1. quad, quad bike

Italian

Noun

quad m (invariable)

1. quad bike

Old High German

Verb

quad

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of quedan

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English quad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: quad
• Homophone: kład

Noun

quad m inan

1. quad bike

   Synonyms: czterokołowiec, wszędołaz, kład

Declension

Further reading

• quad in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• quad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Alternative forms

• quaid, queid
• quyed (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English qued, from Old English cwēad.

Pronunciation

• (Early Scots) IPA^(key): [kwad]
• (Early Middle Scots) IPA^(key): [kwad]
• (Late Middle Scots) IPA^(key): [kwad]

Adjective

quad (comparative quader)

1. (Middle Scots) evil, wicked, bad

Usage notes

Only the comparative is attested.

Further reading

• “quad”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

Spanish

Noun

quad f (plural quads)

1. all-terrain vehicle

Further reading

• “quad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org