quality
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun1 how good/bad sth isADJECTIVE▪ excellent, exceptional, good, high, outstanding, superior, top▪
All our cakes are made with top-quality ingredients.
▪ inferior, low, poor▪ variable, varying▪ product, service▪ audio, recording, sound▪ image, picture, video▪ air, water▪ food▪ artistic, technicalVERB + QUALITY▪ maintain▪ enhance, improve, raise▪ affect, compromise, impact (AmE), impact on, impair (esp. BrE), reduce, sacrifice▪How can we increase production without sacrificing quality?
▪ assess, determine, evaluate, judge, measure, monitor, rate, test▪ deliver▪We aim to deliver quality to our customers.
QUALITY + VERB▪ vary▪ improve▪ go down, suffer▪When costs are cut, product quality suffers.
QUALITY + NOUN▪ control▪ assurance▪ standardsPREPOSITION▪ of … quality▪The photos are of variable quality.
PHRASES▪ quality of life▪Advances in technology would, it was hoped, improve the quality of life.
2 characteristicADJECTIVE▪ admirable, desirable, endearing, fine, good, great, positive▪ negative▪ redeeming▪I found him thoroughly unpleasant, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
▪ individual, personal▪ inherent, innate, intrinsic▪ distinctive, particular, special, unique, wonderful▪ elusive, rare, star▪a singer with that elusive quality that sells records
▪They have real star quality.
▪ essential, important▪ aesthetic, artistic, literary▪ dreamlike, magical, timeless▪ moral, spiritual▪ physical▪ feminine, masculine▪ leadershipVERB + QUALITY▪ have, possess▪ display, show▪ lack▪ give▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}The music gives the movie a dreamlike quality.
adj.Quality is used with these nouns: ↑beer, ↑content, ↑craftsmanship, ↑education, ↑food, ↑furniture, ↑hotel, ↑ingredient, ↑magazine, ↑merchandise, ↑newspaper, ↑paper, ↑press, ↑produce, ↑product, ↑reproduction, ↑service, ↑shopping, ↑stationery, ↑time, ↑wine, ↑workmanship
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Quality — degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements (p. 3.1.1 ISO 9000:2005). Источник … Словарь-справочник терминов нормативно-технической документации
quality — 1 Quality, property, character, attribute, accidentall denote one of the intelligible marks or indications by means of which a thing may be identified or its constitution be understood. Quality is the term of widest application and may designate… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Quality — • Various definitions of quality and its forms or divisions Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Quality Quality † … Catholic encyclopedia
Quality — Qual i*ty, n.; pl. {Qualities}. [F. qualit[ e], L. qualitas, fr. qualis how constituted, as; akin to E. which. See {Which}.] 1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
quality — qual·i·ty n pl ties 1: a special, distinctive, or essential character: as a: a character, position, or role assumed those acts of ownership, which the person called to the succession can only do in quality of heir Louisiana Civil Code b: the… … Law dictionary
quality — [kwôl′ə tē, kwäl′ə tē] n. pl. qualities [ME qualite < OFr < L qualitas < qualis, of what kind: see QUALE] 1. any of the features that make something what it is; characteristic element; attribute 2. basic nature; character; kind 3. the… … English World dictionary
quality — (n.) c.1300, temperament, character, disposition. from O.Fr. qualite (12c., Mod.Fr. qualité), from L. qualitatem (nom. qualitas; said to have been coined by Cicero to translate Gk. poiotes), from qualis of what sort, from PIE pronomial base *kwo… … Etymology dictionary
quality — [n1] characteristic, feature affection, affirmation, aspect, attribute, character, condition, constitution, description, element, endowment, essence, factor, genius, individuality, kind, make, mark, name of tune*, nature, nature of beast*,… … New thesaurus
Quality — Quality. См. Качество. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) … Словарь металлургических терминов
quality — is descriptive of organic composition of substance, expressed in definite quantitative units, and definitive of character, nature and degree of excellence of an article. Dean Rubber Mfg. Co. v. U. S., C.A.Mo., 356 F.2d 161, 163. In respect to… … Black's law dictionary
quality — ► NOUN (pl. qualities) 1) the degree of excellence of something as measured against other similar things. 2) general excellence. 3) a distinctive attribute or characteristic. 4) archaic high social standing. ORIGIN Latin qualitas, from qualis of… … English terms dictionary
