(n.) An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
(v. i.) See Quob, v. i.
Example Sentences:
Quad
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Quade
(n.) A quadrat.
(n.) A quadrangle; hence, a prison.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
(3) ECC:CON PT for QUAD were higher (p less than 0.05) in females than in males.
(4) The echocardiographic images were digitized and randomly assigned in a quad-screen format for nonbiased interpretation.
(5) Long-term controls suggest the use of Quad-Helix and III Class elastic traction as soon as possible, in order to correct premaxillary and maxillary hypoplasia eventually complicated by a posterior cross-bite.
(6) It was concluded that the MMS Enteric Quad Panels provide an efficient, relatively inexpensive, and reasonably accurate method for identification of the Enterobacteriaceae.
(7) The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the in vitro force delivery of the quad-helix appliance.
(8) Osborne confirmed on Sunday that the main points of the budget were agreed by the "quad" group of ministers – the chancellor, the prime minister, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander – last Monday.
(9) Differences in posture were not associated with differences in abscissal intercepts in either Quad or Con.
(10) The G3 will also have metal body and use Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, which other flagship phones from Samsung, Sony and HTC have used to produce fast smartphones with at least one full day's battery life.
(11) The assembly of fibronectin into disulfide cross-linked extracellular matrices requires the interaction of mesenchymal cells with two distinct sites on fibronectin, the Arg-Gly-Asp cell adhesive site and an amino-terminal site contained within the first five type I homologous repeats (Quade, B. J., and McDonald, J.
(12) EF Synergy Quad plates, standard microdilution panels prepared in house, Pasco MIC Gram-Positive panels (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.), MicroScan MIC Type 5 dry panels (Baxter Healthcare Corp., MicroScan Div., West Sacramento, Calif.), and Vitek GPS-TA cards (Vitek Systems Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.).
(13) The sand was criss-crossed by police on horses and quad bikes.
(14) RVA in the QUAD group was significantly higher than in the PARA or AB group (P less than 0.003).
(15) Reducing the scanning time and the X-ray tube anode current to 80-100 mA is the main way of reducing the radiation dose without noticeably lowering the tomogram image quality in examination of the eye area using the USA QUAD-1 X-ray computer tomograph of the fourth generation.
(16) Variations in QUAD, FDHL, and MTIB PSP pattern and amplitude were correlated with variations in the PSP pattern evoked by stimulation of the sural nerve: excitatory oligosynaptic group I PSPs generally appeared in motoneurons receiving excitatory cutaneous (sural nerve) input, whereas inhibitory PSPs generally appeared in motoneurons receiving some inhibitory cutaneous input and were largest in motoneurons receiving predominantly inhibition from the sural nerve.
(17) 4,500 containers or TEUs, as the Ministry of Defence calls them (the acronym stands for Twenty Foot Equivalent Units), will be packed with small arms, ammo, quad bikes, and other less valuable kit, and put on trucks.
(18) These studies show significant alterations in the sensitivity of osmotically stimulated vasopressin release related to differences in posture in Quad, characterized by enhanced sensitivity in erect posture due to nonosmotic stimuli not evident in Con.
(19) In the experiments described in the preceding paper electrical stimulation of the quadriceps (QUAD), medial tibial (MTIB), and flexor digitorum and hallucis longus (FDHL) muscle nerves was used to evoke oligosynaptic group I postsynaptic potentials (PSPs) in medial gastrocnemius (MG) motoneurons.
(20) Changes in plasma arginine vasopressin concentration (PAVP) during hypertonic NaCl infusions were also greater in erect than in supine Quad (P less than 0.005), despite identical changes in plasma osmolality (Posm).