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Quality   /kwˈɑləti/   Listen
Quality

noun
(pl. qualities)
1.
An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.
2.
A degree or grade of excellence or worth.  Synonyms: caliber, calibre.  "An executive of low caliber"
3.
A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.  Synonyms: character, lineament.  "The radical character of our demands"
4.
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).  Synonyms: timber, timbre, tone.  "The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
5.
High social status.
adjective
1.
Of superior grade.  Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, select.  "Prime beef" , "Prize carnations" , "Quality paper" , "Select peaches"
2.
Of high social status.  "A quality family"



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"Quality" Quotes from Famous Books



... to a whole winter's supplies for a "peeg poarding-house," and two United States Army contractors. Jack had convinced these gentlemen that they were paying too much for several articles that could be found on the list of Gifford & Company in better quality and at ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... furious fusillade was at once opened by the concealed enemy upon the men, who were unable to reply, as their attention was entirely occupied in keeping the canoes from capsizing. Fortunately, the Appollonians fired wildly, and their powder was of bad quality; for, although almost every man of the detachment was struck by slugs or fragments of iron, only eleven were wounded, and those slightly. A canoe was, however, unhappily upset, and two men beaten against the rocks and drowned. The company formed up ...
— The History of the First West India Regiment • A. B. Ellis
... thousand years' evolution towards the refinement of thought, manners and feelings." Why he fixed the term at six thousand years I don't know. His poems read like sentimental novels told in verse of a really superior quality. You felt as if you, were being taken out for a delightful country drive by a charming lady in a pony carriage. But in his domestic life that same Carleon Anthony showed traces of the primitive cave-dweller's temperament. ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... time for you to learn how the books are kept, in another three or four years; and that, till then, you could go into the cellar. You will learn bottling, and packing, and blending, and something about the quality and value of wines. You will find it much more pleasant than being shut up in a counting house, making out bills and ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty
... thus far in his life to see the continuous good fortune which had followed him in the friendships he had made, and in the men with whom his life, at its most formative period, had come into close contact. If we are inclined to credit young Bok with an ever-willingness to work and a certain quality of initiative, the influences which played upon him must also be ...
— A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok


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