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Quad   /kwɑd/   Listen
Quad

noun
1.
One of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy.  Synonym: quadruplet.
2.
A muscle of the thigh that extends the leg.  Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quadriceps, quadriceps femoris.
3.
(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences.  Synonym: space.
4.
A rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings.  Synonym: quadrangle.



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"Quad" Quotes from Famous Books



... again moved into new rooms at Christ Church; the suite which he occupied from this date to the end of his life was one of the best in the College. Situated at the north-west corner of Tom Quad, on the first floor of the staircase from the entrance to which the Junior Common Room is now approached, they consist of four sitting-rooms and about an equal number of bedrooms, besides rooms for lumber, &c. From the upper floor one can easily reach the flat college roof. Mr. Dodgson ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

... useful work, Men of the Time, tells me that the Poet was educated at Westminster and Christ Church—facts that in themselves suggest a column of copy about Football at Vincent Square, the mysteries of Seniors, Juniors, and Second Election, and the glories and humours of Tom's Quad. Not much trouble about that. So far, plain sailing. Bolingbroke Square, too, helps one along. Historical reminiscences, Pimlico in time of Romans, ditto Normans, ditto when ELIZABETH was Queen. All this can be ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Dec. 20, 1890 • Various

... half an hour late, while all the rest had been eagerly waiting outside the doors to start their papers at once. But what odds? He was miles ahead of them all—an easy first. It was rumoured in Pembroke that the new Fellow had been seen smoking (a pipe, too) in the quad—that the Dean had said it was really shocking, such a bad example to the undergraduates, and against all college rules. How could we expect undergraduates to be moral if Mr Steevens did such things? How, indeed? Then came Mr Oscar Browning from Cambridge, and carried ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens



Words linked to "Quad" :   area, printing, sibling, extensor muscle, sib, type, printing process, extensor, hair space, thigh



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