quint
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quint¹
- /kwɪnt/
- [kʰw̥ɪnt]
- /kwɛ̃/
Rhymes with -ɪnt
Where it comes from
* From Middle French quint, from Latin quīntus. Doublet of quintus.
* (firefighting vehicle): In reference to its five functions: pump, water tank, fire hose, aerial device, and ground ladders.
noun quints
- An interval of one fifth.
- The E string of a violin.
- In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker. The discard was, in fact, an experiment in bluff. Carrados might have held a quint and fourteen kings for all the opposing hand disclosed.
- a quin or quintuplet. Two days after Mrs. Shirley Ann Lawson's four girls and one boy were delivered in New Zealand, another set of quints was born to Mrs. Karin Olsen in Falun, Sweden.
- A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
- quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
Quint²
Where it comes from
As an independent name, from Latin Quintus, from quintus (“fifth”), originally in reference to a son's birth order uninclusive of daughters. Doublet of Quintus.
proper noun
- A male given name from Latin.
- A diminutive of the male given names Quentin and Quinton.
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