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  • English Word Qualities Definition of Quality
  • English Word Quality Definition The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
  • English Word Quality Definition Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.
  • English Word Quality Definition That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.
  • English Word Quality Definition An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.
  • English Word Quality Definition Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.
  • English Word Qualled Definition of Quail
  • English Word Qualling Definition of Quail
  • English Word Qualm Definition Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
  • English Word Qualm Definition A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
  • English Word Qualm Definition Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
  • English Word Qualm Definition A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
  • English Word Qualmish Definition Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.
  • English Word Quamash Definition See Camass.
  • English Word Quamoclit Definition Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipomoea Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipomoea.
  • English Word Quandaries Definition of Quandary
  • English Word Quandary Definition To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.
  • English Word Quandary Definition A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
  • English Word Quandong Definition The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.
  • English Word Quandy Definition The old squaw.
  • English Word Quannet Definition A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.
  • English Word Quant Definition A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
  • English Word Quanta Definition of Quantum
  • English Word Quantic Definition A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic.
  • English Word Quantification Definition Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity.
  • English Word Quantitative Definition Relating to quantity.
  • English Word Quantities Definition of Quantity
  • English Word Quantitive Definition Estimable according to quantity; quantitative.
  • English Word Quantitively Definition So as to be measurable by quantity; quantitatively.
  • English Word Quantity Definition The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much?"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size.