Quark — meaning in English
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English meaning
- guff noun (informal) Nonsense; foolish or empty talk.
- junket noun A trip, especially one paid for by an employer, government, or organisation, that mixes official business with leisure.
- quark noun In particle physics, one of the fundamental building blocks that combine to form protons, neutrons, and similar particles.
Senses
Quark is used for these senses in English:
- cottage cheese A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.
- guff (informal, uncountable) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
- junket (film) Ellipsis of press junket.
- quark A soft, creamy, unripened cheese made from cow's milk, originating from and eaten throughout central, northern, eastern, and southeastern Europe, as well as the Low Countries.
- quark (particle) In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.
- tvorog A soft Russian curd cheese.
guff — full definition
- noun (informal) Nonsense; foolish or empty talk.
- noun (informal) Cheeky or disrespectful backtalk.