Explore Quarto through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like size. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Quarto meaning
- A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
- Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
Synonyms of Quarto
Using Quarto
- The main meaning on this page is: A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides). | A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides). | Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
- Useful related words include: 4to, size.
- In the example corpus, quarto often appears in combinations such as: the quarto, quarto and, quarto editions.
Context around Quarto
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quarto
- In this selection, "quarto" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, individual, incorporate, editions, group and respectively stand out and add context to how "quarto" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the quarto and a 1676 quarto. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quarto" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quarto
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
First published in 2020 by Rock Point, an imprint of The Quarto Group. (13 words)
Sale says of the lost Spanish manuscript; The book is a moderate quarto. (13 words)
Sizes larger than quarto are: * Folio: up to 15" (ca 38 cm) tall. (13 words)
However, the version in the Folio is rather different in length, and in wording: as the editors of the Folger edition explain: "The Folio play has about 160 lines that do not appear in the Quarto. (36 words)
Prepared parchment sheets retained their original central fold, so each was ordinarily cut in half, making a quarto volume of the original folio, with the overwritten text running perpendicular to the effaced text. (33 words)
The Folio is no more a definitive text than the quartos; many of the plays in the folio omit lines that can be found in quarto versions, and include misprints and textual corruption. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Millard went on to complete his doctorate at the University of Kansas, studying Shakespeare with Dr. Charlton Hinman and completing his dissertation on the printing of the first quarto of Othello.
First published in 2020 by Rock Point, an imprint of The Quarto Group.
Guillaume Galienne and Clovis Cornillac will play the characters of Alzagar and Quarto, respectively.
A full variant Greek text of Scripture proved impossible, but in 1675 Oxford printed a quarto King James edition, carrying Fell's own textual changes and spellings.
Both the Quarto and the First Folio call him "Robin Goodfellow" on the first entrance, but call him "Puck" later in the same scene, and they remain inconsistent.
Halliday, p. 375. A little over 600 plays were published in the period as a whole, most commonly in individual quarto editions.
His collected works fill 60 to 80 quarto volumes, more than anybody in the field.
However, the Folio text includes material found in none of the quarto editions, primarily Act 3, Scene 2 (also called the 'fly-killing scene').
However, the version in the Folio is rather different in length, and in wording: as the editors of the Folger edition explain: "The Folio play has about 160 lines that do not appear in the Quarto.
Most modern editions are based on the longer Folio version, but often incorporate Quarto readings of words when the Folio text appears to be in error.
None of the early texts of Hamlet, however, were arranged this way, and the play's division into acts and scenes derives from a 1676 quarto.
Popular plays like 1 Henry IV and Pericles were reprinted in their quarto editions even after the First Folio appeared, sometimes more than once.
Prepared parchment sheets retained their original central fold, so each was ordinarily cut in half, making a quarto volume of the original folio, with the overwritten text running perpendicular to the effaced text.
Q1 is considered a 'good text' (i.e. not a bad quarto or a reported text ), and it forms the basis for most modern editions of the play.
Sale says of the lost Spanish manuscript; The book is a moderate quarto.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was published in two quarto editions prior to the publication of the First Folio of 1623.
Sizes larger than quarto are: * Folio: up to 15" (ca 38 cm) tall.
The conflated version is born from the presumption that Shakespeare wrote only one original manuscript, now unfortunately lost, and that the Quarto and Folio versions are distortions of that original.
The Folio also lacks a scattering of about a dozen lines or part-lines that are to be found in the Quarto.
The Folio is no more a definitive text than the quartos; many of the plays in the folio omit lines that can be found in quarto versions, and include misprints and textual corruption.
Common combinations with quarto
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: