Quasi

Definition: Quasi

Quasi

Adjective

1. Having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract".

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Date "quasi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Literature

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Synonym: Quasi

Impulse

Phrase: cela s'entend; abeunt studia in mores; adeo in teneris consuescere multum est; consuetudo quasi altera natura; hoc erat in more majorum; "How use doth breed a habit in a man!"; magna est vis consuetudinis; morent fecerat usus.

Similarity

Adverb: as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as, veluti in speculum.

Supposition

Adverb: if, if so be; an; on the supposition; Noun:ex hypothesi; in the case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps; (by possibility); for aught one knows.

Crosswords: Quasi

French (almost), German (quasi-, virtually), Italian (about, all but, almost, halfway, hardly, nearly, nigh, practically, scarcely, very nearly), Latin (about, as if, as it were, as it were /a sort of, as though, in a way, just as, just as if).

Delitto quasi perfetto (1966)

Quasi quasi (2002)

I Due superpiedi quasi piatti (1976)

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Books

• Electronic Properties of Inorganic Quasi One-Dimensional Compounds, Part 2: Experimental (Physics & Chem of Materials With Low-Dimensional Struc-B) (reference)

• Quasi One-Dimensional Conductors One: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dubrovnik, Sr Croatia, Sfr Yugoslavia, 1978 (Lecture Notes in phys (reference)

• La torta senza candeline : bambini quasi come gli altri (reference)

• Christopher and the Quasi War With France (reference)

• Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music (The Verso Classics Series) (reference)

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Half progress, quasi right.

Quasi palma exaltata sum in Gades et quasi plantatio rosae in Jericho.

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Business

First - the large end-users which already operate in a quasi liberalized market, second - the smaller and medium sized companies and end-users and third - individual households as well as very small companies. (references)

The Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Center (operated by the quasi governmental Hong Kong Trade Development Council), has approximately 500,000 square feet of exhibition space, including 300,000 square feet added in a major expansion completed in the summer of 1997. A privately built facility, the International Trademart, opened in Kowloon Bay in early 1996 with 158,000 square feet of exhibition space. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Underlying many of these initiatives was the 1991 convertibility law, which established a quasi currency board and fixed the exchange rate at one peso to one U.S. dollar. (references)

Burma

There may be room for some growth in providing both computer and educational services to the urban elite and even to the aspiring quasi middle class, since these needs are not being met by the government. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

In order to transform the Algerian economy into one based upon free market principles, the government announced in 2000 a four-pronged program: _ With the exception of the energy sector, most firms now owned by the government (the quasi totality of industrial firms) will be privatized. (references)

Worker Rights

India

The Carpet Export Promotion Council (CEPC), a quasi governmental organization that receives funding from the Ministry of Textiles, has a membership of 2,500 exporters who have subscribed to a code of conduct barring them from purchasing hand-knotted carpets known to have been produced with child labor. (references)

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Expressions using "quasi": consuetudo quasi altera natura ♦ quasi contract ♦ quasi corporation ♦ quasi delict. Additional references.

Beginning with "quasi": quasi-absolute, quasi-academic, quasi-academics, quasi-adjectives, quasi-adoptive, quasi-aesthetic, quasi-allegorical, quasi-amorphous, quasi-anthropological, quasi-apostolic, quasi-arbitral, quasi-arbitration, quasi-arbitrator, quasi-arbitrators, quasi-architectural, quasi-arithmetic, quasi-authentic, quasi-authorial, quasi-automatic, quasi-automatically, quasi-autonomous, quasi-balanced, quasi-beliefs, quasi-benjaminian, quasi-biblical, quasi-biennial, quasi-bimolecular, quasi-biographical, quasi-biological, quasi-black, quasi-blank-verse, quasi-british, quasi-cabinet, quasi-cairn, quasi-canonical, quasi-capitalist, quasi-captive, quasi-celebrations, quasi-chemical, quasi-circular, quasi-civil, quasi-classical, quasi-colonial, quasi-colony, quasi-commercial, quasi-competitive, quasi-conceptual, quasi-conductor, quasi-consensus, quasi-conspiratorial, quasi-continents, quasi-contract, quasi-contracts, quasi-contractual, quasi-corporation, quasi-corporatist, quasi-criminal, quasi-crystalline, quasi-currency, quasi-customers, quasi-cyclical, quasi-delict, quasi-democracy, quasi-democratic, quasi-dialogue, quasi-diplomacy, quasi-diplomatic, quasi-divine, quasi-document, quasi-documentary, quasi-domestic, quasi-drug, quasi-duties, quasi-dynastic, quasi-easements, quasi-educational, quasi-elected, quasi-emphyteutic, quasi-environmental, quasi-episcopal, quasi-epithelium, quasi-equities, quasi-erotic, quasi-essential, quasi-evolutionary, quasi-exceptions, quasi-executive, quasi-experimental, quasi-familial, quasi-family, quasi-fascist, quasi-federal, quasi-feudal, quasi-fictionalised, quasi-firm, quasi-fixed, quasi-flakes, quasi-formal, quasi-freedom, quasi-functionalist, quasi-gang, quasi-general, quasi-geometrical, quasi-government, quasi-governmental, quasi-groups, quasi-harem, quasi-historical, quasi-homophonic, quasi-human, quasi-hyponyms, quasi-imperial, quasi-imperialism, quasi-improvisatory, quasi-independent, quasi-intellectual, quasi-internal, quasi-journalistic, quasi-judicial, quasi-judicially, quasi-laboratory, quasi-legal, quasi-legendary, quasi-legislation, quasi-legislative, quasi-legitimate, quasi-liberal, quasi-linear, quasi-litigation, quasi-loans, Quasi-lorenz, quasi-magical, quasi-male, quasi-managerial, quasi-marital, quasi-market, quasi-marxist, quasi-maternal, quasi-mathematical, quasi-mechanical, quasi-mechanistic, quasi-medical, quasi-medieval, quasi-metaphorical, quasi-military, quasi-military-order, quasi-ministerial, quasi-minority, quasi-modern, quasi-modernist, quasi-monastic, quasi-monetary, quasi-money, quasi-monopolies, quasi-monopolistic, quasi-monopoly, quasi-mourning, quasi-musical, quasi-mystical, quasi-narrative, quasi-national, quasi-nationalism, quasi-nationalization, quasi-natural, quasi-neutrality, quasi-nominal, quasi-non-governmental, quasi-novel, quasi-obbligato, quasi-objective, quasi-objects, quasi-obsession, quasi-official, quasi-operatic, quasi-oral, quasi-orchestral, quasi-organic, quasi-paralytic, quasi-parlando, quasi-parliamentary, quasi-partnership, quasi-partnerships, quasi-periodic, quasi-periodicity, quasi-permanent, quasi-personal, quasi-philanthropism, quasi-police, quasi-political, quasi-pop, quasi-popular, quasi-practical, quasi-prebendary, quasi-preludial, quasi-priestly, quasi-private, quasi-profession, quasi-professional, quasi-property, quasi-psychedelic, quasi-psychedelics, quasi-psychological, quasi-public, Quasi-public corporation, quasi-public-good, quasi-qualifications, quasi-random, quasi-range, Quasi-rasta, quasi-record, quasi-reductionism, quasi-reductionist, quasi-referential, quasi-refutation, quasi-regal, quasi-relations, quasi-religious, quasi-rents, quasi-representative, quasi-republican, quasi-research, quasi-retirement, quasi-revolutionary, quasi-ritualistic, quasi-royal, Quasi-rp, Quasi-ruckers, quasi-sacerdotal, quasi-saint, quasi-sale, quasi-samurai, quasi-sardonic, quasi-science, quasi-scientific, quasi-secessionist, quasi-securitisation, quasi-sensual, quasi-sensuous, quasi-sexual, quasi-simile, quasi-single, quasi-situationist, quasi-situationists, quasi-sociological, quasi-solids, quasi-sovereign, quasi-splits, quasi-stable, quasi-state, quasi-static, quasi-stationer front above the surface, quasi-stationer front at the surface, quasi-statutory, quasi-steady, quasi-stellar, quasi-stellar object, quasi-stellar radio source, quasi-superordinate, quasi-supervisory, quasi-symbolic, quasi-syndicalist, quasi-synonym, quasi-synonymity, quasi-synonymy, quasi-syntactic, quasi-syntactically, quasi-tax, quasi-theatrical, quasi-theoretical, quasi-theosophical, quasi-totalitarian, quasi-totality, quasi-toxic, quasi-transcendental, quasi-treaty, quasi-triadic, quasi-triangular, quasi-unification, quasi-unified, quasi-uniform, quasi-uniformly, quasi-university, quasi-vassal, quasi-venetian, quasi-victorian, quasi-wagnerian, quasi-whisper, Quasi-william.

Albanian

pothuaj (all but, almost, but, half and half, most, much, near, nearly, practically, pretty, scarcely, virtually, well nigh), jo tamam, gjoja (allegedly, as if, as though, in a way, mock, ostensibly, professedly, seeming, supposing, would be). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقريبا (about, all but, almost, most, near, nearly, roughly, somewhere, thereabouts, upward, upwards, well nigh), ‏على نحو شبه, ‏ظاهريا (in principle, on the face of it, ostensibly, outwardly, superficially), ‏شبه بادئة, ‏بمعنى ما. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъй да се каже (kind of, like), тоест (id est, scilicet), като че ли (as if, like). (various references)

Czech

quasi- (quasi-), kvazi- (quasi-). (various references)

Danish

quasi simpel tilfældig stikprøveudvælgelse (quasi-random sampling), quasi geoide (quasi geoid), quasi-flager (quasi-flakes), quasipenge (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), quasi-sandsynlig fejl (quasi-probable error), quasi-variationsbredde (quasi-range), quasar (quasar, quasi-stellar radio source), kvasikapital (quasi-capital), kvasi-antipodiske space-stationer (quasi-antipodal space stations), naersynonym (near-synonym, quasi-synonym), kvasar (quasar, quasi-stellar object(QSO)), kvasi-spidsmaalinger (quasi-peak readings), kvasikollisionsfrit plasma (quasi collisionless plasma, virtually collisionless plasma), kvasiomnidirektional antenne (quasi-omnidirectional antenna), kvasipengemaengde (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), kvasiperiodisk (quasi-periodic), kvasi-periodisk noeglet emission (quasi-periodically keyed emission), kvasi-spids (quasi-peak), kvasi-stoekiometrisk (quasi-stoichiometric, quasi-stoichiometrical), kvasi-tilfældig dæmpning (quasi-random fading), den sekundær pengemængde (money and quasi money), kvasitopvaerdi (quasi-peak), vare der sædvandigvis forhandles i et apotek (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug), naersynonymi (near-synonymity, near-synonymy, quasi-synonymity, quasi-synonymy), para-farmaceutisk vare (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug), sekundaer likviditet (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), sekundaer pengeforsyning (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), selskabslignende foretagender (quasi-corporate enterprises), kvasi-topniveaumaalinger (quasi-peak readings). (various references)

Dutch

quasi-periodiek (quasi-periodic), quasar (quasar), quasi waarschijnlijke fout (quasi-probable error), quasi-antipodische ruimtestations (quasi-antipodal space stations), quasi-bereik (quasi-range), quasi-geld (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), quasi-omnidirectionele antenne (quasi-omnidirectional antenna), quasi-periodiek gesleutelde uitzending (quasi-periodically keyed emission), quasi-piek (quasi-peak), quasi-stochastische steekproefname (quasi-random sampling), quasi-synoniem (near-synonym, quasi-synonym), quasi-synonymie (near-synonymity, near-synonymy, quasi-synonymity, quasi-synonymy), quasi-vennootschappen (quasi-corporate enterprises), quasi-willekeurige fading (quasi-random fading), quasi-piekmeetwaarden (quasi-peak readings), quasi-monetaire liquiditeiten (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), secundaire liquiditeiten (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), bijnageld (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), geld en quasi-geld (money and quasi money), gewoonlijk in een apotheek verkocht niet-farmaceutisch produkt (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug), half-synoniem (near-synonym, quasi-synonym), parafarmaceutisch artikel (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug), pseudo lamel (quasi-flakes), semikapitaal (quasi-capital), bijna stoëchiometrisch (quasi-stoichiometric, quasi-stoichiometrical), vrijwel stechiometrisch (quasi-stoichiometric, quasi-stoichiometrical), virtueel stootvrij plasma (quasi collisionless plasma, virtually collisionless plasma). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشوندنیزبکاررفته وبمعنی ،شبه ،, شبیه (Alike, Equal, Like, Likeness, Make, Medal, Rival, Similar, Simile), شبه . (various references)

Finnish

lähes törmäyksetön plasma (quasi collisionless plasma, virtually collisionless plasma), kvasiantipodaaliset avaruusasemat (quasi-antipodal space stations), kvasigeoidi (quasi geoid), kvasihuippu (quasi-peak), kvasiperiodinen (quasi-periodic), kvasisatunnaispoiminta (quasi-random sampling), kvasisynonymia (near-synonymity, near-synonymy, quasi-synonymity, quasi-synonymy), kvasisynonyymi (near-synonym, quasi-synonym), kvasaari (quasar, quasi-stellar radio source), lähes jaksollinen (quasi-periodic), raha ja kvasiraha (money and quasi money), lähes ympärisäteilevä antenni (quasi-omnidirectional antenna), lähisynonymia (near-synonymity, near-synonymy, quasi-synonymity, quasi-synonymy), näennäishuipputasolukemat (quasi-peak readings), näennäisjaksottain avainnettu lähetys (quasi-periodically keyed emission), näennäissatunnainen vaimeneminen (quasi-random fading), näennäissuomut (quasi-flakes), osittaissynonyymi (near-synonym, quasi-synonym), kvasivaihteluväli (quasi-range). (various references)

French

quasi géoïde (quasi geoid), quasar (quasar, quasi-stellar object(QSO), quasi-stellar radio source), quasi- (quasi-), quasi étendue (quasi-range), quasi erreur probable (quasi-probable error), quasi moneta (quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money), quasi périodique (quasi-periodic), quasi-crête (quasi-peak), quasi-cristal (quasi-crystal), quasi-entreprise (quasi-firm), quasi-monnaie (quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money), quasi-synonyme (quasi-synonym, quasi-synonymity, quasi-synonymy), quasi-servitude (quasi easement), quasi-sinusoïde (quasi-sinusoid), quasi-soCiétés (quasi-corporate enterprises), quasi-stoéchiométrique (quasi-stoichiometric, quasi-stoichiometrical), quasi-substitution taillée (quasi entail), quasi capital (quasi-capital), quasi-saisine (quasi-seisin), liquidité quasi-monétaire (quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money), disponibilité quasi-monétaire (quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money), antenne quasi-omnidirective (quasi-omnidirectional antenna), antenne quasi-équidirective (quasi-omnidirectional antenna), liquidité secondaire (quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money), étendue quasi totale (quasi-range), pseudo-lamelles (quasi-flakes), émission � manipulation quasi périodique (quasi-periodically keyed emission), évanouissements quasi-aléatoires (quasi-random fading), masse monétaire M2 (money and quasi money), plasma virtuellement sans collision (quasi collisionless plasma), produit para-pharmaceutique (quasi-drug), termes quasi-synonymes (quasi-synonymous terms), synonyme documentaire (quasi-synonym), stations spatiales occupant des positions situées sensiblement aux antipodes (quasi-antipodal space stations), échantillonnage quasi-aléatoire (quasi-random sampling), valeurs de quasi-crête (quasi-peak readings), produit parapharmaceutique (quasi-drug). (various references)

German

gleichsam (as if, as though, in a way). (various references)

Greek 

οιονεί. (various references)

Hungarian

szinte (as good as, next door to), mintegy (as it were, some, something like), majdnem (all but, almost, just, little short of it, much, narrowly, near, nearly, next door to, nigh, pretty near, to be scarcely able to keep one's head above water, well nigh, wellnigh, within an inch), látszólag (apparently, at first sight, at the first blush, at the first go-off, on the surface, ostensibly, professedly, seemingly, superficially). (various references)

Indonesian

pura-pura (affect, affection, illusive, mock, ostensible, pretend, pretended). (various references)

Italian

quasi-cristallo (quasi-crystal), quasi capitale (quasi-capital), quasi religioso (quasi-religious), quasar (quasar), quasi-sinonimia (near-synonymity, near-synonymy, quasi-synonymity, quasi-synonymy), quasi-sinonimo (near-synonym, quasi-synonym), quasi-societ� (quasi-corporate enterprises), quasi moneta (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), campo di variazione parziale (quasi-range), campionamento quasi aleatorio (quasi-random sampling), liquidit� secondarie (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), antenna quasi omnidirezionale (quasi-omnidirectional antenna), emissione a modulazione digitale quasi periodica (quasi-periodically keyed emission), evanescenza quasi aleatoria (quasi-random fading), liquidit� quasi monetarie (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), liquidit� secondaria (near-money, quasi-monetary liquidity, quasi-money, secondary liquidity), parafiscalit� (quasi-taxation), plasma virtualmente privo di collisioni (quasi collisionless plasma, virtually collisionless plasma), aggregato monetario M2 (M2, money and quasi money), pseudo- (pseudo, quasi-), stazioni spaziali quasi agli antipodi (quasi-antipodal space stations), semi- (quasi-, semi-), semiufficiale (quasi-official, semiofficial), sorgente radio stellare (quasar, quasi-stellar radio source), prodotto parafarmaceutico (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

疑似 (false, mock, pseudo, sham, suspected), 準 (aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, conform to, correspond to, level, rule, semi, standard), �"�似 (false, mock, pseudo, sham, suspected), 似非 (false, mock, pretended, pseudo, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎじ (character of questionable form, false, mock, proceedings, pseudo, questionable word, sham, suspected), じゅ�" (10-day period, aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, chaste, conform to, correspond to, excellence, genius, innocent, level, order, pure, quasi-, rule, semi, semi-, standard, turn), えせ (false, mock, pretended, pseudo, pseudo-, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Korean 

즉. (various references)

Manx

lieh- (demi-, half-, prefix demi-, quasi-, semi-). (various references)

Pig Latin

asiquay

Portuguese

quase (about, all but, almost, approximately, half, half-way, just, just about, much, near, nearly, next to, nigh, well-nigh), semi, isto é (namely, this is, videlicet), como se (as if, as though). (various references)

Romanian

ca şi cum (as though, like), aproximativ (about, approx., approximate, approximately, approximative, at a rough estimate, circa, general, much, near, nearly, or so, rough, roughly, round, roundabout, some, thereabouts). (various references)

Russian 

как будто (as, as if, as though, kind of), как бы (as it were). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tobožnji (assumed, ostensibly, pretended, supposed, would be), tobože, kvazi. (various references)

Spanish

casi (about, all but, almost, near, nearly, next, next door, next to, nigh). (various references)

Swedish

kvasi. (various references)

Turkish

yarı (half, hemi-, meta-, moiety, part-, quasi-, semi-), sanki (as if, as though, like, quasi-, so to say, so to speak), sözde (alleged, allegedly, as if, as though, nominal, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professed, professedly, quasi-, reputed, self-styled, so called, soi-disant, supposed, would be), güya (as if, as though, like, professedly), benzeri (kind of, quasi-, suchlike). (various references)

Ukrainian

гаданий (apparent, assumptive, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, presumed, presumptive, putative, reputed, superficial, suppositional, supposititious), неначе (as if, as though, like), майже (about, all but, almost, anear, approximately, as good as, but, half, hard upon, just about, much, near, nearby, nearly, next door to, next to, nigh, nighly, practically, quite, well nigh, within), позірний (alleged, apparent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

y như thế, tu�"ng như l� , hầu như l� . (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "quasi": quasicrystal, quasicrystalline, quasicrystals, quasiparticle, quasiparticles, quasiperiodic, quasiperiodicities, quasiperiodicity. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: quais.

-1 letter: quai.

-2 letters: ais, qua, sau, suq.

-3 letters: ai, as, is, si, us.

+1 letter: maquis, quails, umiaqs.

+2 letters: acquits, asquint, caiques, diquats, faquirs, marquis, pasquil, quaichs, quaighs, quassia, quassin, quinoas, quintas, sequoia, siliqua, squalid, squilla, yanquis.

+3 letters: acequias, acquires, alfaquis, aliquots, antiques, aquarist, aquatics, aquavits, aquifers, caciques, caziques, charquis, coquinas, equalise, equiseta, liquates, marquise, pasquils, quackish, quackism, quadrics, quaiches, quakiest, qualmish, quantics, quarries, quartics, quashing, quassias, quassins, quayside, queasier, queasily, queridas, quillais, quinelas, quininas, quinnats, quintals, quintans, quintars, sequoias, siliquae, siliquas, squaring, squarish, squillae, squillas, tequilas, vanquish.