B1 [ C or U ] how good or bad something is:. Their products are of very high quality. I only buy good-quality wine. The quality of the picture on our television isn't very good. See more results ». B1 [ U ] a high standard :. He's not interested in quality. All he cares about is making money. My quality of life has improved tremendously since I moved to the country. What the problem comes down to is 'Will the consumer be willing to pay more for a higher quality product?
Price alone is not a reliable indicator of quality. Poor quality is the unacceptable face of increased productivity. These improvements in quality are the first fruits of our investment. Quality and standard. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Suitable and acceptable. B2 [ C ] a characteristic or feature of someone or something:. He has a lot of good qualities but being organized isn't one of them. Her singing voice has a pure , crystalline quality.
There's a dreamlike quality to the final stages of the film. Her voice had an extraordinary hypnotic quality. Her beauty had an incandescent quality to it. Cyril's most impressive quality was his innate goodness. Mind and personality. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Conditions and characteristics.
See synonyms for quality on Thesaurus. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms.
Quality, attribute, property agree in meaning a particular characteristic of a person or thing. A quality is a characteristic, innate or acquired, that, in some particular, determines the nature and behavior of a person or thing: naturalness as a quality; the quality of meat. An attribute was originally a quality attributed, usually to a person or something personified; more recently it has meant a fundamental or innate characteristic: an attribute of God; attributes of a logical mind.
Property applies only to things; it means a characteristic belonging specifically in the constitution of, or found invariably in, the behavior of a thing: physical properties of uranium or of limestone. Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource.
I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! Dictionary definitions are usually inadequate in helping a quality professional understand the concept. It seems that every quality expert defines quality is a somewhat different way. There are a variety of perspectives that can be taken in defining quality e.
Are there commonalities among these definitions? Is any one definition "more correct" than the others? Is one quality expert "right" and the others "wrong"? Quality professionals constantly debate this question. The editors of Quality Digest say that defining the word "quality" is "no simple endeavor.
A modern definition of quality derives from Juran's "fitness for intended use. So, who is the customer? Thought-provoking question: Who are the customers for higher education?
External customers usually come to mind first. These are the people outside our organization who receive our goods and services.
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