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choleric, churlish, captious, contradictory, disagreeable; cantankerous, captious, irascible, irritable; contrary, dyspeptic, bad-tempered, ill-humored; frettish, petulant, peevish, querulous, grouchy; cross, cranky, testy, snappish, Inf. ugly, Inf mean, Inf. ornery, waspish; touchy, pettish, splenetic, difficult; thin-skinned, cross-grained, quick to take offense. quarry1, n. 1. excavation, pit, mine, strip mine. -v. 2. quarry, mine, strip mine. quarry2, n. game, hunted animal or bird, prey, raven, the hunted, object of the chase, victim, the kill, quarter, n. 1. one fourth, a fourth part; quarter-hour; one fourth of a year or three months; half a semester, quarter term; twenty-five cents, SI. two bits.
2. point, direction, compass point or direction.
3. country, region, district, zone, province; area, parts, Inf. neck of the woods, part of the country; territory, tract of land, land, terrain; place, locality, section, neighborhood, block.
4. quarters a. lodgings, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, living quarters, quarterage, rooms, accommodations, housing, shelter, roof over one's head, Inf. pad, Inf. crash pad, Chiefly Brit. Inf. diggings, Brit. Inf. digs; home, abode, domicile, domicil, residence, residency, dwelling, dwelling place, habitation, habitat, inhabitance, inhabitancy; flat, apartment, tenement, rent, walk-up, cold-water flat, Brit, chambers, Brit, apartments, Chiefly Brit, maisonette; penthouse, townhouse, suite, story, condominium, Inf. condo; chamber, room, stall, cell, cabin, compartment; nook, nest, roost, perch; address, location, situation, whereabouts, place, b. Military, barracks, billet, casern, cantonment, military quarters, SI. the Q.
5. mercy, indulgence, favor, clemency, forgiveness, pardon, grace; mercifulness, compassion, compassionateness, Latin, misericordia, pity, humaneness, humanity, leniency, lenity, sparingness, mildness. -v. 6. quadrisect, cut or divide into quarters; cut up, carve, divide into sections, section, split up.
7. board, furnish with lodgings, Inf. put up, house, billet, lodge, accommodate, bed, give food and shelter, put a roof over [s.o.'s] head.
8. station, assign, locate, post, place, situate.
9. lodge, take up quarters, take up residence, abide, dwell, live, stay, take root, settle down; make camp, encamp, pitch one's tent, Inf. park oneself and one's belongings. quash1, v. 1. subdue, suppress, squelch, Inf. put the kibosh on, squash, vanquish; quell, quench, stamp out, put down, repress, crush; terminate, put an end to, dissolve, stop; overthrow, overwhelm, overturn, subvert, defeat, conquer, overcome.
2. annihilate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, eradicate, obliterate; destroy, demolish, devastate; expunge, efface, wipe out, blot out, erase, delete, cancel, strike out. quash2, v. 1. annul, disannul, nullify, declare null and void, render null and void, void, avoid; vacate, vitiate, invalidate, disenact, disestablish; cancel, discharge; supersede, set aside; repeal, revoke, rescind, reverse, abrogate, abolish; discontinue, break off, Law. nol-pros, suspend, stop, cease.
2. recant, retract, abjure, unsay, recall; withdraw, take back, undo; renounce, repudiate, deny, disclaim, disown, relinquish, abnegate, disavow; countermand, counterorder, overrule, override; veto, negate.
3. terminate, put an end to, bring to an end, dissolve; discard, dismiss, cast aside. quasi, adj. 1. resembling, seeming, apparent; partial, part, kind of, sort of, Inf. semi; pseudo, pretend
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Holland and the netherlands are not one in the same. Since the 16th century, the name of the nation has been the netherlands. Holland consists of two provinces that together only cover one sixth of the area of the netherlands. .. More >>
