| DISSUADE | • dissuade v. (Transitive) To convince not to try or do. • DISSUADE v. to persuade not to do something. |
| GODSQUAD | • God␣squad n. (Informal, derogatory) Christians who proselytize. • God␣squad n. (Informal, derogatory) Christians who evangelize excessively. • God␣squad n. (Informal, medicine) An ethics committee that advises on decisions about the life and death of patients. |
| PERSUADE | • persuade v. (Transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through… • persuade v. (Transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection… • persuade v. (Transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). |
| QUADDING | • quadding v. Present participle of quad. • QUADDING n. the practice of birdwatching in a specific area. |
| QUADPLAY | • quadplay n. Alternative spelling of quad play. • quad␣play n. A service offering in which four services are offered together, especially television, broadband, and… • QUADPLAY n. the supply to a customer by one provider of television, internet and both fixed-line and mobile telephony, also FOURPLAY. |
| QUADPLEX | • quadplex n. (US) A building divided into four separate residences or commercial premises. • QUADPLEX n. a building having four units, also FOURPLEX. |
| QUADRANS | • quadrans n. A bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one quarter of an as. • QUADRANS n. (Latin) a Roman coin, a fourth part of an as. |
| QUADRANT | • quadrant n. One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines. • quadrant n. (Mathematics) One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis. • quadrant n. (Geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°. |
| QUADRATE | • quadrate adj. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. • quadrate adj. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. • quadrate adj. (Archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. |
| QUADRATI | • QUADRATUS n. the name of several quadrangular muscles. |
| QUADRATS | • quadrats n. Plural of quadrat. • QUADRAT n. a piece of type metal used for spacing. |
| QUADRICS | • quadrics n. Plural of quadric. • QUADRIC n. a quadric curve. |
| QUADRIGA | • quadriga n. (Historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast. • quadriga n. (Historical) A team of four horses, or sometimes other animals, especially as used in chariot racing. • QUADRIGA n. (Latin) a four-horse chariot. |
| QUADROON | • quadroon n. (Dated, chiefly historical) A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent. • quadroon adj. (Dated, chiefly historical) Of or related to quadroons. |
| SQUADDED | • squadded v. Simple past tense and past participle of squad. • SQUAD v. to form into small, organised groups. |
| SQUADDIE | • squaddie n. (Slang, Britain) A private in the army. • SQUADDIE n. (colloquial) a soldier, also SQUADDY. |
| SQUADRON | • squadron n. (Obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square. • squadron n. (Military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one… • squadron n. (Military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and… |