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noun
- A dance originating from the mid 1700s with four dancers forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
- 1891 The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed. " Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=344004731&tag=Hardy,+Thomas:+Tess+of+the+d'Urbervilles,+1891&query=quadrille&id=HarTess? Part 2.
- A card game from the 1700s.
- 1812 It now first struck her that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors. " Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=80823677&tag=Austen,+Jane:+Pride+and+Prejudice,+1796-1812&query=quadrille&id=AusPrid Chapter 17
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
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verb
- To multiply something by four times.
- Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
adjective
- Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
- He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
| | quadruplet |
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noun
- One of a group of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth, (i.e. one of four twins).
| | quantity |
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noun (quantities)
- A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
- You have to choose between and quality.
- An indefinite amount of something
- Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in larger quantities in the soap, while other oils are best added in small quantities.
- Olive oil can be used practically in any .
- A specific measured amount
- This bag would normally costs $497.50 for a of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
- Generally it should not be used in quantities larger than 15 percent.
- A considerable measure or amount
- The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
| | quickstep |
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noun
- A fast foxtrot.
verb (quicksteps, quickstepping, quickstepped)
- To dance the quickstep.
| | quill |
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noun
- The main shaft of a feather
- A pen made from a feather
- Figuratively, any pen.
- He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
- A sharp pointed, barbed and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine as a defense against predators.
| | quint |
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noun - (music) an interval of one fifth
- (in piquet) a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- a quin or quintuplet
- quinte; In fencing, the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
| | quintuple |
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noun
- a fivefold amount
verb (quintupl, ing) (transitive or intransitive)
- to multiple something (or be multiplied) by five
adjective
- having five parts or members
- five times as much
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noun
- One of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth, (i.e. one of five twins).
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