quality : Idioms & Phrases
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decline in quality
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noun process of changing to an inferior state
declension; worsening; deterioration.
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high quality
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noun the quality of being superior
superiority.
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low quality
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noun an inferior quality
inferiority.
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maternal quality
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noun the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
motherliness; maternalism; maternity.
- the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children
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Occult qualities
- those qualities whose effects only were observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; so called by the schoolmen.
Webster 1913
parental quality
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noun a quality appropriate to a parent
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paternal quality
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noun the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father
fatherliness.
- the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears
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Primary qualities of bodies
- such are essential to and inseparable from them.
Webster 1913
Quality binding
- a kind of worsted tape used in Scotland for binding carpets, and the like.
Webster 1913
quality control
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noun maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods
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quality of life
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noun your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)
- the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life
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Secondary qualities
- those qualities of bodies which are not inseparable from them as such, but are dependent for their development and intensity on the organism of the percipient, such as color, taste, odor, etc.
Webster 1913
The quality
- those of high rank or station, as distinguished from the masses, or common people; the nobility; the gentry.
Webster 1913
top-quality
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adjective satellite surpassing in quality
high-grade; top-grade.
- top-grade ore
