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quite

kwaɪt
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Round mast with square top, ears, longitudinal and side shells. The mast foot is quite square and consists of eight parts: the square mast king, unlike other masts, is placed diagonally, so with the corners to the sides of the mast, so that the cheeks are triangular in cross-section, their outside rounded. From the mast hole, three cheeks have been added to the rear that continue all the way up, while the front three parts stop just above the longitudinal sockets; from this point on, the mast again consists of eight parts and becomes square again. The parts are held together with a large number of tub tires. Two side shells strengthen the whole; they also support the longitudinal sockets together with the ears, which are fixed not to the sides but to the front of the mast with irons and bolts. A driving bed is fitted between the ears. At the mast hole there are two notches for the ears and two for the longitudinal aisle, if the mast is turned over.
Round mast with square top, ears, longitudinal and side shells. The mast foot is quite square and consists of eight parts: the square mast king, unlike other masts, is placed diagonally, so with the corners to the sides of the mast, so that the cheeks are triangular in cross-section, their outside rounded. From the mast hole, three cheeks have been added to the rear that continue all the way up, while the front three parts stop just above the longitudinal sockets; from this point on, the mast again consists of eight parts and becomes square again. The parts are held together with a large number of tub tires. Two side shells strengthen the whole; they also support the longitudinal sockets together with the ears, which are fixed not to the sides but to the front of the mast with irons and bolts. A driving bed is fitted between the ears. At the mast hole there are two notches for the ears and two for the longitudinal aisle, if the mast is turned over.
  1. (adv) quite
    to the greatest extent; completely "you're quite right","she was quite alone","was quite mistaken","quite the opposite","not quite finished","did not quite make it"
  2. (adv) quite
    to a degree (not used with a negative) "quite tasty","quite soon","quite ill","quite rich"
  3. (adv) quite
    of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative) "her victory was quite something","she's quite a girl","quite a film","quite a walk","we've had quite an afternoon"
  4. (adv) quite
    actually or truly or to an extreme "was quite a sudden change","it's quite the thing to do","quite the rage","Quite so!"
Illustrations
Iron concretion filled with silicone rubber, quite square, elongated, could have been part of a nail.
Iron concretion filled with silicone rubber, quite square, elongated, could have been part of a nail.
Piece of rope, brown, quite thick and compact. Rope.
Piece of rope, brown, quite thick and compact. Rope.
Natural-colored bobbin lace fichu: Valenciennes lace. Model: A triangular piece of back tapers quite suddenly into narrow ends. On a fine lattice ground, a square Valenciennes ground, there is a continuous and conforming to the wavy contour, with crossed bars and regularly interrupted by a leaf palm. Outer edge of a row of large, single and continuous roses. In the middle a branch growing from the right with a hanging rose. A twining branch with fine shoots and a few roses and leaves runs from one end to the other.
Natural-colored bobbin lace fichu: Valenciennes lace. Model: A triangular piece of back tapers quite suddenly into narrow ends. On a fine lattice ground, a square Valenciennes ground, there is a continuous and conforming to the wavy contour, with crossed bars and regularly interrupted by a leaf palm. Outer edge of a row of large, single and continuous roses. In the middle a branch growing from the right with a hanging rose. A twining branch with fine shoots and a few roses and leaves runs from one end to the other.
Officer's saber light cavalry model no. 1. The blade is damasked white and quite curved.
Officer's saber light cavalry model no. 1. The blade is damasked white and quite curved.
Piece of rope, brown, quite thin, consisting of four strands, broken at 14/18 cm. Rope.
Piece of rope, brown, quite thin, consisting of four strands, broken at 14/18 cm. Rope.
Plate of faience. Painted in many colors with a text. Let quite a calm man / if he can do what he can / in honor of the dinner / what benefits his sweet language / and friendly welcome / if a woman is suer / 1683
Plate of faience. Painted in many colors with a text. Let quite a calm man / if he can do what he can / in honor of the dinner / what benefits his sweet language / and friendly welcome / if a woman is suer / 1683
Silicone rubber filled iron concretion, consisting of 4 parts, quite square, fit together. Probably wood on the outside, which may have rubbed against iron.
Silicone rubber filled iron concretion, consisting of 4 parts, quite square, fit together. Probably wood on the outside, which may have rubbed against iron.
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a ketch. The bogrounding is quite sharp. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no details of the fence or side gallery; straight rudder with square rudder stock. Sheer slightly ascending to the back, one bar wood. Peaked round bilge with sharply cut stern. The main mast is missing, but its location is indicated by a line.
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a ketch. The bogrounding is quite sharp. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no details of the fence or side gallery; straight rudder with square rudder stock. Sheer slightly ascending to the back, one bar wood. Peaked round bilge with sharply cut stern. The main mast is missing, but its location is indicated by a line.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The cartoon character Popeye was actually based on a real person named Frank "Rocky" Fiegel who was a tough guy who was quite similar to Popeye physically
  1. Quite
    kwīt See Quit.
  2. Quite
    To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably. "Quite amusing.", "He really looks quite concerned.", "The island stretches along the land and is quite close to it."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Greyhounds are not hyper and do not need constant exercise; they are quite happy occupying space on a couch.
  1. quite
    An obsolete form of quit.
  2. quite
    Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; fully; perfectly.
  3. quite
    To a considerable extent or degree; noticeably: as, quite warm; quite pretty; quite clever; quite an artist: in this sense now chiefly colloquial and American.
  4. quite
    An obsolete form of quit.
  5. quite
    An obsolete dialectal form of white.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
  1. (kw?t) Quite
    (Spens.) Same as Quit.
  2. (adv) Quite
    kwīt completely: wholly: entirely
Quotations
Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
Blaise Pascal
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal
Germaine Greer
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Germaine Greer
Virgil
The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
Virgil
It's always too soon to quit.
David T. Scoates
It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
Source Unknown
Idioms

Quitters never win; winners never quit - If you quit you will never get what you want, but if you keep trying you will find a way to get what you want. ('Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots' is a variation accredited to Larry Kersten)

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. quitte, discharged, free, clear; cf. OF. quitement, freely, frankly, entirely. See Quit (a.)

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Merely an adv. use of the adj. quit.

Usage in the news

One way to quit an old flame. ashingtonpost.com

After months of trying to stay in business, the book and music vendor is calling it quits. kveo.com

The band that wouldn't quit. ashingtonpost.com

Fantasia Barrino has built quite a résumé since winning it all on American Idol in 2004. riverfronttimes.com

Quite a few Texas voters are seeing dead people in the mirror these days when they go to brush their teeth in the morning. ktep.org

SimpsonsMovie.com (glasses: OliverPeoples.com, though not quite our frames). nymag.com

Mark Fidrych, who played with the Tigers from 1976-80, had quite the personality on the mound. usatoday.com

The townhouse at 48 East 74th Street certainly puts on quite a show with a bold blend of eras and prints (we counted floral, paisley, plaid, cheetah and polka dot to name just a few). observer.com

Most strains are harmless, but others can make you quite sick. idahoptv.org

Justin Bieber is 18 today and Ellen DeGeneres helped bring him quite a surprise. 965kvki.com

Beautifully crimson and quite thick. sacbee.com

I think blurbs can sometimes help quite a lot, but the idea that a writer can bring his core audience into the tent with a blurb you might as well try herding cats. nytimes.com

A friend of mine, who graduated from my school last year, recently told me he was quitting a job as a production assistant at a TV studio. money.cnn.com

Don't get me wrong, I read the whole book in less than a week, so it is quite riveting. 965kvki.com

Greece's biggest company, bottler CCH, quits for Switzerland. foxbusiness.com

Usage in scientific papers

However, given the rather wide temperaturedistribution of cosmic dust (see e.g. the three quite different spectral templates, for Arp220, M82, and M51 in Fig. 9), this test proved to be very uncertain.
High-Redshift Galaxies: The Far-Infrared and Sub-Millimeter View

On the other hand, observations of supermassive BH’s in local spheroidal galaxies (Magorrian et al. 1998, Faber et al. 1997) indicate a quite higher mass in the BH accreted material with respect to that in stars: MBH ≃ (0.002 − 0.006) M∗ .
High-Redshift Galaxies: The Far-Infrared and Sub-Millimeter View

We remark that the complex of cyclic equivariant cochains introduced in Section 3 is not quite the same as the complex that naturally appeared in .
Equivariant Cyclic Cohomology of H-Algebras

Our cocyclic module in Theorem 3.1 is not quite the dual of the cyclic module that appeared in the E2 -term of the spectral sequence in , but is very similar to it.
Equivariant Cyclic Cohomology of H-Algebras

For many probability distributions of interest, it is quite difficult to obtain samples efficiently.
The Randomness Recycler: A new technique for perfect sampling

Usage in literature

The great passion was quite a necessity for her. "Ralph the Heir" by Anthony Trollope

My father and mother were quite satisfied. "The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete" by John Forster

Your drawing of her is very like, except that I don't think the hair is quite curly enough. "The Letters of Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens

She did not quite seem to know what she wanted of me. "The Letters of Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens

It will take them quite that time to get here. "Girls of the Forest" by L. T. Meade

It fell to Sproatly, who didn't seem quite pleased, but he got as far as firing the chairs and tables out into the snow. "Masters of the Wheat-Lands" by Harold Bindloss

Her female friend Miss Baker had quite forgiven; but she felt that she could never quite forgive him. "The Bertrams" by Anthony Trollope

Antony felt suddenly, and quite unreasonably, annoyed at their entry. "Antony Gray,--Gardener" by Leslie Moore

It is quite firm, but the margin splits quite readily on being handled. "Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc." by George Francis Atkinson

Of that I am quite, quite, quite sure. "The Vicar of Bullhampton" by Anthony Trollope

Usage in poetry
The dragonfly
can't quite land
on that blade of grass.
"The dragonfly" by Matsuo Basho
And when my singing
Has razed your quite,
I shall have lost
Half my delight.
"The Stream’s Song" by Lascelles Abercrombie
I am half afraid
In the ghostly night;
If ye all obeyed
I should fear you quite.
"Quiet Dead!" by George MacDonald Author object (244)
Then I won't know if I fit,
Whether to sit back and
Sit, or quit altogether.
To wit.
"He'S AboutT 22, I'm 63" by Helene M Johnson
It is darkness quite.
Is the Lord at hand,
In the cloak of night
Stolen upon the land?
"Antiphon" by George MacDonald Author object (244)
Sin, Death, and Hell
His glorious name
Quite overcame,
Yet I rebel
And slight the same.
"A Hymn to God the Father" by Ben Jonson