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English Idioms :: quarterback sneak
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quarleer.html - {n.} A football play in which the quarterback takes the ball from the center and dives straight ahead in an attempt to gain a very short distance. * /Johnson took the ball over on a quarterback sneak for a touchdown./ |
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New English :: quark
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quarleer.html - (Science and Technology) see quagma |
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Traditional English :: quarantine
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quarleer.html - n. & v. --n. 1 isolation imposed on persons or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to, and might spread, infectious or contagious disease.
2 the period of this isolation. --v.tr. impose such isolation on, put in quarantine. [It. quarantina forty days f. quaranta forty] |
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Traditional English :: quark(1)
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quarleer.html - n. Physics any of several postulated components of elementary particles. [invented word, assoc. with 'Three quarks for Muster Mark' in Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)] |
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Traditional English :: quark(2)
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quarleer.html - n.
a type of low-fat curd cheese. [G] |
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Traditional English :: quarrel(1)
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quarleer.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a violent contention or altercation between individuals or with others.
2 a rupture of friendly relations.
3 an occasion of complaint against a person, a person's actions, etc. --v.intr. (quarrelled, quarrelling; US quarreled, quarreling)
1 (often foll. by with) take exception; find fault.
2 fall out; have a dispute; break off friendly relations. quarreller n. [ME f. OF querele f. L querel(l)a complaint f. queri complain] |
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