quad vs yard

quad

noun
  • A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard). 

  • A quadriplegic person. 

  • A skate with four wheels. 

  • A quadcopter. 

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

  • 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 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. 

yard

noun
  • A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. 

  • 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard. 

  • A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely. 

  • 100 dollars. 

  • A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc. 

  • Any spar carried aloft. 

  • Units of similar composition or length in other systems. 

  • One’s house or home. 

  • The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn. 

  • An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc. 

  • A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK). 

verb
  • To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along. 

  • To confine to a yard. 

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