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In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
Noah Feldman

Meaning of "quasi" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD QUASI

From Latin, literally: as if.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF QUASI

quasi  [ˈkweɪzaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUASI

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quasi is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES QUASI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

quasi

Quasi

Quasi is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by former spouses Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss. Joanna Bolme performed and recorded with the group as a bassist from 2007 to 2011.

Definition of quasi in the English dictionary

The definition of quasi in the dictionary is as if; as it were.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUASI


banzai
ˈbɑːnzaɪ
Rinzai
ˈrɪnzaɪ
xi
zaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUASI

quartzitic
quartzose
quartzous
quartzy
quasar
quash
quasher
Quashi
Quashie
quasi-contract
quasi-judicial
quasi-quotation
quasi-stellar object
quasicrystal
Quasimodo
quasiparticle
quasiperiodic
quass
quassia
quassin

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUASI

Adivasi
Bengasi
dalasi
Judah ha-Nasi
Kumasi
Likasi
Pegasi
sannyasi
sanyasi
Stasi
Varanasi

Synonyms and antonyms of quasi in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «QUASI»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «quasi» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of quasi

Translation of «quasi» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUASI

Find out the translation of quasi to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of quasi from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quasi» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cuasi
570 millions of speakers

English

quasi
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अर्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شبه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

квази
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quasi
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যেন মনে হয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quasi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kuasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

quasi
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ある程度
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Quasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धवट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

quasi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

quasi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

квазі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cvasi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οιονεί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

quasi
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kvasi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kvasi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quasi

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUASI»

The term «quasi» is very widely used and occupies the 8.250 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «QUASI» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «quasi» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «quasi» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quasi

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3 QUOTES WITH «QUASI»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word quasi.
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James Bovard
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
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Noah Feldman
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
3
Christopher Koch
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUASI»

Discover the use of quasi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quasi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music
At the book's core are illuminating studies of the founders of modern music: Mahler, Schoenberg and Berg, as well as sympathetic rediscoveries of Alexander Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker.
Theodor W. Adorno, 1998
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Modals and Quasi-modals in English
Modals and Quasi-modals in English reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the modals and a set of semantically-related 'quasi-modals' in English.
Peter Collins, 2009
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Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the ...
He concludes by assessing the future of quasi-states and the institution of negative sovereignty.
Robert H. Jackson, 1993
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Quasi-Frobenius Rings
Provides an elementary account of the basic facts about quasi-Frobenius rings.
W. K. Nicholson, M. F. Yousif, 2003
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Quasi Rational Economics
According to Richard Thaler, the shortcomings of the standard approach arise from its failure to take into account systematic mental biases that color all human judgments and decisions.
Richard H. Thaler, 1994
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Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2010
This book represents the refereed proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing that was held at the University of Warsaw (Poland) in August 2010.
Leszek Plaskota, Henryk Woźniakowski, 2012
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Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Sampling
Presents essential tools for using quasi-Monte Carlo sampling in practice. This book focuses on issues related to Monte Carlo methods - uniform and non-uniform random number generation, variance reduction techniques.
Christiane Lemieux, 2009
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Quasi Government: Hybrid Organizations with Both Government ...
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.
Kevin R. Kosar, 2011
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Approximation with Quasi-Splines
" This book should be required reading for all practitioners of the methods of approximation, including researchers, teachers, and students in applied, numerical and computational mathematics.
G.H Kirov, 1992
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Quasi-Likelihood And Its Application: A General Approach to ...
This is author-approved bcc: Quasi-likelihood is a very generally applicable estimating function based methodology for optimally estimating model parameters in systems subject to random effects.
C. C. Heyde, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUASI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term quasi is used in the context of the following news items.
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10-Year-Old Quasi Modo Crowned "World's Ugliest Dog"
But it was Quasi Modo, a pit-bull Dutch shepherd mix who "epitomized excellence in ugliness" that impressed the judges the most. Born with a spinal defect that ... «DOGOnews, Jul 15»
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Quasi Modo, World's Ugliest Dog, returns to Loxahatchee a celebrity
LOXAHATCHEE GROVES — After a week of traveling between the east and west coasts, Quasi Modo of Loxahatchee Groves, the World's Ugliest Dog for 2015, ... «Palm Beach Post, Jul 15»
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World's ugliest dog named Quasi Modo gets a makeover on Jimmy …
A 10-year-old mutt named Quasi Modo who won the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in California last week is unrecognizable after getting a Hollywood makeover ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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World's Ugliest Dog Winner, Quasi Modo, Live on 'GMA'
Quasi Modo, the world's ugliest dog, made a special appearance on “Good Morning America” today, “pawping” in to show off her award-winning natural-born ... «ABC News, Jun 15»
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Quasi Modo the Mutt is Crowned World's Ugliest Dog
PETALUMA, Calif. — A 10-year-old mutt named Quasi Modo, whose spinal birth defects left him a bit hunchbacked, is the winner of this year's World's Ugliest ... «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»
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'Quasi-straight' Rosie Perez reveals lesbian fling
Rosie Perez says she's “quasi-straight” and reveals she had a lesbian experience as an adolescent in Catholic school. “I met this girl named Michelle, [and ] all I ... «Fox News, Jun 15»
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Audit: Quasi-Military School 'Michigan Youth Challenge Academy …
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – A new audit released Thursday says a residential, quasi-military program for high school dropouts failed to document how it spent tens of ... «CBS Local, May 15»
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Santorum: Obama opposition to fossil fuels “quasi-religious”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - President Barack Obama has a “quasi-religious” zeal to close down coal-burning power plants, past and potential Republican presidential ... «Washington Times, Mar 15»
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Facebook abuses 'quasi-monopoly' on user data, EU lawmaker says
The social network company is "abusing" its "quasi- monopoly" to "process the personal data of its users to develop constantly new business models - without ... «Phys.Org, Jan 15»
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CNN Host Fareed Zakaria Trash-Talks About Rupert Murdoch and …
Then came the trash talk: “We don't hold Rupert Murdoch responsible for every crazy, radical, you know, quasi-fascist statement made by a television host. «NewsBusters, Jan 15»

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