quad vs term

quad

noun
  • A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type. 

  • A quadriplegic person. 

  • A skate with four wheels. 

  • A quadcopter. 

  • 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. 

  • A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once. 

  • Quadruplex videotape. 

  • The quadriceps muscle. 

  • A quadrupel beer. 

  • A quad bike (from quadricycle) 

  • The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume. 

  • A quadruplet (infant). 

  • A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard). 

  • A serving of four shots of espresso. 

  • A quadrilateral. 

  • A joke used to fill long days of setting type. 

  • A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release. 

verb
  • To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out. 

  • To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together. 

  • To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it. 

  • to ride a quad bike 

adj
  • Of or relating to quads. 

  • Having four shots of espresso. 

term

noun
  • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

  • A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

  • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

  • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

  • The time during which legal courts are open. 

  • Certain days on which rent is paid. 

  • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

  • The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. 

  • Relations among people. 

  • That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. 

  • A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

  • Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

  • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

  • An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. 

  • A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

  • With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

  • One whose employment has been terminated 

  • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

  • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. 

verb
  • To phrase a certain way; to name or call. 

  • To terminate one's employment 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

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