q로 시작하는 명사 영영풀이

[q로 시작하는 명사 영영풀이]

 

quarter

noun : a coin used in the United States and Canada that is worth twenty-five cents

queen

noun : a woman or girl who rules a country

question

noun : a sentence that asks something

 

quadruplets

noun : four babies born in one birth

quail

noun : a small, plump, short-tailed game bird that is mostly brown

quality

noun : a feature or characteristic of something

quantity

noun : an amount or number of something

quarry

noun : a place where stone, marble, or slate is excavated

quart

noun : a standard unit of liquid capacity equal to 2 pints or one fourth of a gallon

quarter

noun : one of four equal parts

quarter hour

noun : a period of 15 minutes; 15 minutes before or after an hour

quarterback

noun : the player in a football game who signals plays and throws the ball

quarters

noun : living space for workers, soldiers, pirates, or slaves

quartet

noun : a group of four people who sing or play music together

quartz

noun : a common mineral of which there are many varieties

Quebec

noun : a French-speaking province in eastern Canada

queen

noun : a female insect that lays eggs in a colony

quesadilla

noun : the Spanish word for a Mexican dish that consists of a tortilla that is filled, folded, and baked

quest

noun : a long or difficult search for something

question mark

noun : a punctuation mark (?) used after a word or sentence that asks a question

questionnaire

noun : a set of questions for gathering useful information about people

queue

noun : a line of people waiting for something

quicksand

noun : a deep area of loose, wet sand into which heavy objects easily sink

quill

noun : a pointed feather used in arrows and sometimes as pens

quilt

noun : a bed covering made from small pieces of fabric sewn together

quinoa

noun : a starchy, nutritious plant found in the Andean mountains of South America

quintuplets

noun : five babies born in one birth

quirk

noun : a small personality trait or characteristic

quiver

noun : a case for holding arrows

quota

noun : a set number that limits the amount of something or serves as a goal

quotation

noun : material that is quoted, repeating exactly what somebody else has said or written

quote

noun : an exact repetition of something a person has written or said

quotient

noun : the result when one number is divided by another

 

quadrant

noun : each of four equal parts of a shape or graph

quadriceps

noun : the large muscle on the front of the thigh that lifts the leg

quadrilateral

noun : a shape with four sides

quahog

noun : a Native American word for a hard-shelled clam

quasar

noun : an astronomical object with very high energy output

quatrain

noun : a stanza or poem made up of four lines of verse, usually with a regular rhyme scheme

Quechua

noun : a member of a native people of Peru and the surrounding region; the language of these people

quinzhee

noun : a snow shelter made by digging out a space in a pile of snow; a snow dome