quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone, the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare |
quality caliber calibre | a degree or grade of excellence or worth, the quality of students has risen, an executive of low caliber |
superiority high quality | the quality of being superior |
inferiority low quality | an inferior quality |
parental quality | a quality appropriate to a parent |
motherliness maternalism maternal quality maternity | the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother, the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children |
fatherliness paternal quality | the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father, the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears |
timbre timber quality tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound), the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely, the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet |
quality character lineament | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something, each town has a quality all its own, the radical character of our demands |
financial forecast | a forecast of the expected financial position and the results of operations and cash flows based on expected conditions |
weather forecast weather outlook | a forecast of the weather |
deterioration decline in quality declension worsening | process of changing to an inferior state |
quality | high social status, a man of quality |
quality of life | your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort), the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life |
calculate estimate reckon count on figure forecast | judge to be probable |
d bode portend auspicate prognosticate omen presage betoken foreshadow augur foretell prefigure forecast predict dcb | indicate by signs, These signs bode bad news |
forecast calculate | predict in advance |
high-grade top-quality top-grade | surpassing in quality, top-grade ore |
quality | of high social status, people of quality, a quality family |
choice prime(a) prize quality select | of superior grade, choice wines, prime beef, prize carnations, quality paper, select peaches |