Quality
['kwɒlɪtɪ] or ['kwɑləti]
Definition
(noun.) an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; 'the quality of mercy is not strained'--Shakespeare.
(noun.) a degree or grade of excellence or worth; 'the quality of students has risen'; 'an executive of low caliber'.
(noun.) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; 'each town has a quality all its own'; 'the radical character of our demands'.
(noun.) high social status; 'a man of quality'.
(adj.) of high social status; 'people of quality'; 'a quality family' .
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.
(n.) Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Property, attribute, nature, characteristic, peculiarity.[2]. Disposition, humor, temper, mood, character.[3]. Rank, condition, station, standing, status.[4]. [With The prefixed.] Nobility, gentry, NOBLESSE, aristocracy, persons of rank.[5]. Brand, chop.
Editor: Woodrow
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Condition, character, property, attribute, peculiarity, disposition, temper,sort, kind, description, capacity, power, virtue, nature, tendency
ANT:Anomalousness, heterogeneousness, nondescript, incapacity, weakness,instistinctiveness, ineffectiveness, disqualification, negation, disability
Inputed by Ethel
Definition
n. that which makes a thing what it is: property: peculiar power: acquisition: character: rank: superior birth or character: (logic) the character of a proposition as affirmative or negative: (Shak.) character in respect to dryness or moisture heat or cold: (Shak.) cause occasion.—adj. Qual′itātive relating to quality: (chem.) determining the nature of components.—adv. Qual′itātively.—adj. Qual′itied furnished with qualities.—Accidental quality a quality whose removal would not impair the identity of its subject as opposed to an Essential quality; The quality persons of high rank collectively.
Checker: Rowena
Examples
- He, the noble, the warlike, the great in every quality that can adorn the mind and person of man; he is fitted to be the Protector of England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The quality of hotels is shown by an inn with one, two, three, or four gables, and so forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In quality and tone it is a fair sample of British political thought in 1919. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As experiences they have both an artistic and an esthetic quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He did not believe in spontaneous alterations, but found that every marked change in the quality of beer coincides with the development of micro-organism s. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Best brands Georgian, none in market; second quality, 1851, L180. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were then carried through the receiving armature and reproduced on the receiving diaphragm, with all the same characteristics of pitch, loudness and quality. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Such was the quality of most of the leaders of the Jacobin party. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From this quality it is easily conceived why it should be connected with the sense of beauty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. Plato. The Republic.
- Deteriorated, that is to say, in the good qualities of horses, not of dogs? Plato. The Republic.
- Having discovered this relation, which requires no farther examination, I am curious to find some other of their qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He stamped these qualities upon his time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is therefore from the influence of characters and qualities, upon those who have an intercourse with any person, that we blame or praise him. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Harriet Smith has some first-rate qualities, which Mrs. Elton is totally without. Jane Austen. Emma.
- That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- These qualities, then, are, properly speaking, the causes of our vanity, by means of their relation to ourselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Philosophers begin to be reconciled to the principle, that we have no idea of external substance, distinct from the ideas of particular qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thirdly, The nature and qualities of that idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- With all these qualities, why are you not in practice? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Nicholas