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Quats
- noun - the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant;
Quays
- noun - wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline
Qubit
- - A measure of information, being the information that can be stored in one object that can take a quantum state of 0 or 1. It differs from the classical bit of information theory in that quantum states may assume many intermediate states that are superpositions of the individual discrete states; the quantum states of multiple quantum systems may also be correlated by a phenomenon called entanglement, increasing the complexity of the information storage and retrieval process. See 4th bit, n.
Quean
- - A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
Queck
- - A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
Queen
- noun - (chess) the most powerful piece
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- become a queen; "her pawn queened"
- female cat
- offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
Queer
- adjective - beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
- offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
Quegh
- - A drinking vessel. See Quaich.