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quad

The English word “quad” has 29 meanings listed here.

  1. A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
  2. A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
  3. 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.
  4. A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
  5. A horse, from colloquial or humorous quadruped specifically for horse.
  6. Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.
  7. A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
  8. A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
  9. A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
  10. A skate with four wheels.
  11. A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
  12. A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
  13. A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
  14. The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
  15. Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
  16. The quadriceps muscle.
  17. Quadruplex videotape.
  18. A quadriplegic person.
  19. A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (10¹⁵ BTU).
  20. A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
  21. A quadrilateral.
  22. A quadcopter.
  23. A quadrupel beer.
  24. Quadruple, four times the usual size or quantity.
  25. Quadrille, marked with squares.
  26. To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
  27. To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
  28. To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
  29. To ride a quad bike.
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