📖 Q — The English dictionary · page 2

qualifying — Everyday, meaning 1: Qualifying is the -ing form of qualify: trying to earn a place, pass the rules or count as something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, a qualifying round, race or match decides who goes through to the next stage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport) "Qualifying" can be a noun for the practice races that decide starting places, as in motor racing.↗ Example: She ran fast in the qualifying race and made the final.↗ · Our school is in the qualifying round of the chess cup.↗ · He crashed during qualifying, so he started the race last.↗ · The qualifying age for the junior team is under 11.↗ · Ireland are still qualifying for the World Cup.↗ · Only qualifying entries will be judged.↗ · Circle the qualifying numbers: those bigger than 20.↗

quality — Everyday, meaning 1: Quality is how good or bad something is.↗ e.g. "the quality of the paper is poor".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Quality, used alone, often means high quality, very good.↗ e.g. "they only sell quality shoes".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A quality is a feature of a person's character: kindness and honesty are good qualities.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A quality is a feature of a thing.↗ e.g. "the soft quality of her voice".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal, UK) "Quality!" is said to mean great or excellent.↗ Example: These pencils are good quality and do not break easily.↗ · The photo is blurry because the camera is poor quality.↗ · Kindness is her best quality.↗ · Patience is an important quality in a teacher.↗ · We spend quality time together at weekends.↗ · The factory checks the quality of every toy before it is sold.↗ · "We won the match 5–0!" "↗ Quality!"↗ · You get what you pay for: cheap boots, low quality.↗ · The true leader proves himself by his qualities.↗ · The self-existing first cause called the creation into existence by quantity and quality; the former represented by ten numbers, (Sephiroth,) the latter by twenty-two letters, which form together thirty-two ways of the divine wisdom.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

quantitative — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with amounts or numbers, things you can measure or count.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Quantitative data: information in numbers, like heights, times or temperatures.↗ Example: Measuring the height of plants gives quantitative data.↗ · «It is 22 degrees» is quantitative; «it is warm» is qualitative.↗ · Use quantitative data to draw a bar chart.↗ · The survey had quantitative questions, like «How many pets do you have?»↗ · Scientists prefer quantitative results they can compare.↗ · Give a quantitative answer with units.↗

quantity — Everyday, meaning 1: A quantity is an amount or a number of something: how many or how much.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «In quantity» or «large quantities» means a lot.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In maths and science, a quantity is anything that can be measured or counted, like length, time or mass.↗ Example: What quantity of flour do you need?↗ · Find the quantity of apples.↗ · Compare the two quantities.↗ · The quantity left is 7.↗ · The recipe lists the quantity of each ingredient.↗ · Bees make honey in large quantities.↗ · Write the quantity next to each item on the list.↗ · Length, mass and time are quantities we can measure.↗ · Here a quantity of provisions were given him to carry.↗ · The self-existing first cause called the creation into existence by quantity and quality; the former represented by ten numbers, (Sephiroth,) the latter by twenty-two letters, which form together thirty-two ways of the divine wisdom.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Tlie person of Pythagoras*') is as much an unknown quantity as that of Ben Sira.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The Monail, or unity, is that quantity which, being deprived of all nnnibcr, remains fixed : whence called Monad.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons.↗ (Prophets ISA.22.24, JPS 1917)↗

quarantine — Everyday, meaning 1: Quarantine is a time when a person or animal who may have a catching disease is kept away from others so the disease does not spread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To quarantine someone or something is to keep them apart for this reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In computing, to quarantine a file is to lock away a file that may have a virus.↗ Example: The new puppy had to stay in quarantine for ten days.↗ · During the pandemic, our family went into quarantine.↗ · Australian airports have strict quarantine rules for fruit and plants.↗ · The ship was kept in quarantine until no one was sick.↗ · The antivirus program quarantined the dangerous file.↗ · Sick chickens were quarantined away from the flock.↗ · The quarantine lasted two weeks.↗

quarrel — Everyday, meaning 1: A quarrel is an angry argument between people who disagree, often friends or family.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To quarrel means to have an angry argument with someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To have no quarrel with something means you do not disagree with it.↗ Example: My brother and I had a quarrel about the TV remote.↗ · The two friends quarrelled over who had won.↗ · They made up after their quarrel.↗ · Please don't quarrel at the table.↗ · The neighbours quarrelled about the fence.↗ · The quarrel started over a silly joke.↗ · I have no quarrel with your plan.↗ · Your quarrel is with me only.↗ · To intervene in any thing, to mediate the peace, accomodate a quarrel.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before the quarrel break out.↗ (Writings PRO.17.14, JPS 1917)↗

quarrelsome — Everyday, meaning 1: Often arguing or ready to start a quarrel; easily angry with others: «a quarrelsome neighbour».↗ Example: The two quarrelsome brothers argued all the way to the beach.↗ · The quarrelsome goose chased everyone round the farmyard.↗ · When he is tired he gets quarrelsome.↗ · Our neighbour is quarrelsome about where we park.↗ · The quarrelsome kings went to war over a tiny island.↗ · Try not to be quarrelsome; listen first.↗ · At first, to be sure, the workmen showed a quarrelsome disposition.↗

quarry — Everyday, meaning 1: A quarry is a big open hole in the ground where people dig or cut out stone, sand or rock for building.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Quarry is also an animal or person that is being hunted or chased.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To quarry is to dig stone or rock out of the ground.↗ Example: Big trucks carried rocks out of the quarry.↗ · The old quarry filled with deep, freezing water.↗ · Never swim in a quarry because the water is very cold and deep.↗ · The church was built with stone from a nearby quarry.↗ · The hawk swooped down on its quarry.↗ · The detective finally caught up with his quarry.↗ · Workers quarried slate from the hillside.↗ · We could hear blasting from the quarry.↗ · Quarry some stones with those great swords of yours, and help me to build a city."↗ · And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.26, JPS 1917)↗ · But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said: 'I have a secret errand unto thee, O king.'↗ And he said: 'Keep silence.'↗ And all that stood by him went out from him.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.19, JPS 1917)↗ · For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. — (Prophets 1KI.6.7, JPS 1917)↗

quart — Everyday, meaning 1: A quart is a unit for measuring liquids, equal to a quarter of a gallon, or two pints; it is used mainly in the USA and was used in the UK in the past.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «You can't fit a quart into a pint pot» (UK saying) means you cannot fit too much into too small a space.↗ Example: Mum bought a quart of milk at the store.↗ · There are four quarts in a gallon.↗ · Two pints make one quart.↗ · A quart is about the same as a litre, but a bit less in the US.↗ · How many quarts are in three gallons?↗ · The recipe needs a quart of chicken stock.↗ · Grandma still talks about a quart of milk.↗ · You can't fit a quart into a pint pot.↗

quarter — Everyday, meaning 1: A quarter is one of four equal parts of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes: «a quarter past three».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In the USA and Canada, a quarter is a coin worth 25 cents.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A quarter is one part of a game (some sports have 4 quarters) or of a year (3 months).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To quarter something is to cut it into four.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A quarter can also mean a direction or a source, a place where something comes from.↗ Example: Zoe loses a quarter of her stickers.↗ · Three quarters of the 20 children are girls.↗ · Tom ate a quarter of the pizza.↗ · It is a quarter past three.↗ · A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes.↗ · I paid with four quarters, which is one dollar.↗ · Our team scored in the last quarter.↗ · Cut the apple into quarters.↗ · Misfortune often assails us from an unexpected quarter.↗ · But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.↗ (Torah GEN.19.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Come against her from every quarter, open her granaries, cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.↗ (Prophets JER.50.26, JPS 1917)↗ · One post runneth to meet another, and one messenger to meet an other, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter; (Prophets JER.51.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And in that day, saith the LORD, Hark! a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.↗ (Prophets ZEP.1.10, JPS 1917)↗

quarterly — Everyday, meaning 1: Quarterly means happening every three months, four times a year.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Quarterly is a magazine published four times a year.↗ Example: The club meets quarterly.↗ · We pay the bill quarterly.↗ · The Cambrian Quarterly was a magazine.↗ · A quarterly payment of 5 pounds makes 20 pounds in a year.↗

quartermaster — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An officer who looks after supplies, such as food and clothing, for an army.↗

quartet — Everyday, meaning 1: A quartet is a group of four people or things working together, or a piece of music for four players.↗ Example: A quartet of musicians played in the hall.↗ · The children formed a quartet for the song.↗ · One of the quartet was very young.↗ · Four friends made a quartet at the party.↗

quarto — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A book size made by folding a printed sheet twice, so that each sheet gives four leaves.↗ Example: Janssonios," 1642, in quarto; fourth, Johann Friedrich von Mayer, D. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

quartz — Everyday, meaning 1: A hard, common mineral, often clear or white, found in many rocks and in sand; it can form beautiful crystals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tiny piece of quartz crystal in a watch or clock that vibrates at a steady rate to keep accurate time.↗ Example: Most beach sand is made of tiny bits of quartz.↗ · We found a shiny quartz crystal on the hike.↗ · Quartz is harder than glass.↗ · My watch is a quartz watch.↗ · Amethyst is a purple kind of quartz.↗ · Granite contains quartz, feldspar and mica.↗ · Rose quartz is pink.↗

quatrain — Everyday, meaning 1: A verse or stanza of a poem with four lines, often with a rhyme pattern like ABAB or AABB.↗ Example: A quatrain is a stanza with four lines.↗ · «Twinkle, twinkle, little star» starts with a quatrain.↗ · Write a quatrain about the sea with the rhyme scheme AABB.↗ · Each verse of the hymn is a quatrain.↗ · The poem has three quatrains and a couplet at the end.↗ · In the quatrain, lines 1 and 3 rhyme, and so do lines 2 and 4.↗