📖 Q — The English dictionary · page 5

quipu — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) A set of knotted coloured strings used by the Inca people of South America to record numbers and information, such as how many people, animals or goods there were.↗ Example: The Incas used a quipu to count llamas.↗ · Each knot on the quipu stood for a number.↗ · A knot near the end of the string showed units; higher up meant tens and hundreds.↗ · We made our own quipu from coloured wool.↗ · Experts are still trying to work out if quipus recorded words too.↗ · The quipu helped officials keep track of taxes.↗

quirk — Everyday, meaning 1: A strange or unusual habit or way of behaving: «One of her quirks is wearing odd socks.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strange thing that happens by chance: «By a quirk of fate, they were born on the same day.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A sudden twist or turn, like a quick curl in handwriting.↗ Example: One of Dad's quirks is eating cereal for dinner.↗ · By a quirk of fate, the two lost friends sat next to each other on the train.↗ · The house has some quirks, like a door that opens by itself.↗ · Every pet has its little quirks.↗ · English spelling is full of quirks.↗ · A quirk of the rules let the team play an extra match.↗

quit — Everyday, meaning 1: To quit is to stop doing something, especially a habit or activity.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To leave a job, school, team or place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To close a computer program or game.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To put down or let go of something you are holding, such as a weapon.↗ Example: Never quit when things get hard.↗ · He quit the football team.↗ · Press Escape to quit the game.↗ · My grandad quit smoking years ago.↗ · She quit her job to travel.↗ · Let's call it quits and go home.↗ · Do not quit before you finish the puzzle.↗ · O quit your sword, unbend your bow↗ · And if an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.↗ (Torah EXO.21.28, JPS 1917)↗ · if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.↗ (Torah EXO.21.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.'↗ (Prophets JDG.15.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you; quit yourselves like men, and fight.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.4.9, JPS 1917)↗

quite — Everyday, meaning 1: Quite means fairly, more than a little but not very: quite good.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Quite means completely, fully.↗ e.g. I'm not quite ready.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Not quite» means almost but not right.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Quite a» means a lot of, or very: quite a crowd.↗ Example: Not quite: 3.↗ · Not quite.↗ Look at the word «each».↗ · I'm not quite finished yet.↗ · The film was quite funny.↗ · There were quite a few people at the park.↗ · You are quite right!↗ · It is quite cold today, so take a jumper.↗ · That was quite a long walk.↗ · He was quite a practical boy.↗ · Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.↗ (Torah GEN.31.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Quite recently, and since the completion of my translation, my attention has been drawn to a version by Isidor Kalisch, in which he has reproduced many of the valuable annotations of Meyer.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Is it that I have no help in me, and that sound wisdom is driven quite from me?↗ (Writings JOB.6.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Joab came to the king, and said: 'What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?↗ (Prophets 2SA.3.24, JPS 1917)↗

quitter — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, negative) A person who gives up easily instead of trying hard or finishing something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone who stops doing a habit, like a smoker who quits (neutral, rare).↗ Example: "I'm not a quitter," she said, and tried the puzzle again.↗ · Quitters never win, and winners never quit.↗ · Don't be a quitter — finish the race!↗ · He felt like a quitter when he left the team.↗ · Coach says nobody on our team is a quitter.↗ · My uncle is a happy quitter: he stopped smoking last year.↗

quiver — Everyday, meaning 1: To shake slightly and quickly: «Her lip quivered.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A slight trembling movement or sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A case for carrying arrows, worn on the back or hip.↗ Example: Her lip quivered as she tried not to cry.↗ · The Mole's whiskers quivered with excitement.↗ · Robin Hood pulled an arrow from his quiver.↗ · The leaves quivered in the breeze.↗ · A quiver of fear ran down his back.↗ · The plucked string quivered and hummed.↗ · Across his back dangled a long fringed quiver.↗ · Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison; (Torah GEN.27.3, JPS 1917)↗ · The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.↗ (Writings JOB.39.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.↗ (Prophets JER.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.↗ (Writings LAM.3.13, JPS 1917)↗

quiz — Everyday, meaning 1: A quiz is a short test with questions.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A quiz is also a game where people or teams answer questions to win points.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To quiz someone is to ask them many questions.↗ Example: The quiz has 20 questions.↗ · Each right answer gets 5 points.↗ · She got 3 wrong.↗ · What was her score?↗ · We had a quiz on times tables today.↗ · Our team won the school quiz night.↗ · Mum quizzed me about my day.↗ · The teacher gave us a pop quiz.↗ · To think that you could not understand that you were being quizzed.↗

quizmaster — Everyday, meaning 1: A quizmaster is the person who asks the questions in a quiz, keeps the score and says who has won.↗ Example: Mr Patel was the quizmaster at our end-of-term quiz.↗ · The quizmaster read out the scores after each round.↗ · I want to be the quizmaster next time!↗ · The quizmaster gave a clue because no one knew the answer.↗ · On the TV show, the quizmaster wore a shiny suit.↗ · Our team argued with the quizmaster about question seven.↗

quoit — Everyday, meaning 1: A quoit is a flat ring of rope, metal or rubber that is thrown so that it lands over a peg.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Quoits is the game of throwing these rings at a peg.↗ Example: The boys played quoits on the lawn.↗ · He threw the quoit and it landed on the peg.↗ · At the games, the best quoit-throwers won prizes.↗

quota — Everyday, meaning 1: A fixed amount or number of something that a person, group or country is allowed to have, or must reach.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A limit on how many things can come in or be sold, for example a quota on fish that can be caught.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (work) A target number of jobs or sales a worker must do in a set time.↗ Example: Each class has a quota of five tickets for the school play.↗ · Fishing boats must not catch more than their quota of cod.↗ · I have reached my screen-time quota for today.↗ · The factory had to meet its quota of 500 bikes a week.↗ · Mum jokes that she has used up her quota of patience.↗ · Some countries set a quota on how many cars can be imported.↗ · If each of 8 teams has a quota of 12 players, there are 96 players in all.↗

quotation — Everyday, meaning 1: Words copied exactly from a book, speech or person, usually shown with quotation marks.↗ e.g. "To be or not to be" is a famous quotation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A price that a builder or company says a job will cost; a quote.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Quotation marks» are the signs ' ' or " " put around spoken or copied words.↗ Example: Put quotation marks around the words the character says.↗ · Find a quotation from the poem to support your answer.↗ · The builder gave us a quotation of £500.↗ · Which of three quotations, $120, $95 or $110, is the cheapest?↗ · That's a famous quotation from Shakespeare.↗ · Write the title in quotation marks.↗ · Mum got two quotations for fixing the roof.↗ · In giving summaries, also, I have kept closely to the text, and always translated literally the passages marked as quotations.↗ · ThetextgivesonlyRTzUAV ShUB— "currendo et redeundo," but the commentators have generally considered this to be a quotation from Ezekiel i. 14, referred to H ChIVT, the living creatures, kerubic forms.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

quote — Everyday, meaning 1: To quote is to repeat the exact words someone else said or wrote.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A quote is the exact words repeated.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To quote a price is to say how much something will cost; a quote is that price.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Quotes (informal) are quotation marks « " " ».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Quote, unquote» is said to show you are repeating someone's words.↗ Example: Quote a line from the poem to back up your answer.↗ · Her favourite quote is «Be kind».↗ · The plumber gave us a quote of eighty pounds.↗ · Put the words in quotes.↗ · Can I quote you on that?↗ · Use evidence and quote the text.↗ · Mum got three quotes and chose the cheapest.↗ · «Don't quote me, but I think it's tomorrow.»↗ · The quoted title was given to the treatise apparently because of the following passage occurring therein: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Barges''*) quotes, from the Paris Cod.↗ 7()'2 the following passage, which occurs also in the Brit.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · According to the above quoted legendary passages, however, the Sefer Yetzirah was written by a Joseph ben Uziel, a grandson of Ben Sira.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

quoth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Said; a form of "say" used in old tales, with the speaker placed after it.↗ Example: "Oh," quoth she, "it's a wee bannock."↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · "Ho, Jock," quoth the goodwife, "here come.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · "Aha, it has allies," quoth the Fowl.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

quotient — Everyday, meaning 1: The quotient is the answer you get when you divide one number by another.↗ The quotient of 12 and 3 is 4.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A quotient can also be a level or amount measured, as in «IQ» (intelligence quotient).↗ Example: The quotient of 20 and 4 is 5.↗ · Find the quotient when 56 is divided by 8.↗ · The quotient is 7 and the divisor is 6.↗ · What is the dividend if the quotient is 9 and the divisor is 3?↗ · 17 ÷ 5 gives a quotient of 3 and a remainder of 2.↗ · Check your quotient by multiplying it by the divisor.↗ · IQ stands for intelligence quotient.↗