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QUALITY

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quality substantiv

1. calitate, însuşire, proprietate, particularitate;

primary qualities calităţi primare;

the quality of a voice timbrul unei voci;

quality of qualities calitate principală.

2. (fig.) fire, caracter, temperament, natură; merit, valoare, posibilitate, aptitudine; capacitate;

to give a taste of one's quality a arăta ce poate, a da măsura capacităţii sale.

3. fel, soi, sort, calitate; bună calitate;

the wine has quality vinul este bun;

to be of inferior quality a avea o valoare inferioară;

of good quality de calitate superioară.

4. profesia de actor; (fam.) actori, tagma actorilor.

5. (înv.) condiţie, poziţie socială, titlu, rang;

man of quality personalitate sus-pusă; om de lume;

a lady of quality o doamnă din înalta societate.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It is Mars’ job to provide you with many opportunities to enjoy quality time together.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Thank Heaven! I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

And I am changed also; for I am now very willing to grant you all Harriet's good qualities.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

At my alighting, I was surrounded with a crowd of people, but those who stood nearest seemed to be of better quality.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

With all these qualities, why are you not in practice?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we are to win through, it is only our own qualities which can save us.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And speaking aloud, he continued—"Ladies, you talked of going to Hay Common to visit the gipsy camp; Sam here says that one of the old Mother Bunches is in the servants' hall at this moment, and insists upon being brought in before 'the quality,' to tell them their fortunes.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You do not add imagination to your other great qualities, but if you could for one moment put yourself in the place of this young man, would you choose the very night after the will had been made to commit your crime?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having undesirable or negative qualities.

(Bad, NCI Thesaurus)

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