Quid vs. Dollar — What's the Difference?

A cut, as of chewing tobacco.

Dollar (symbol: $) is the name of more than 20 currencies. They include the Australian dollar, Brunei dollar, Canadian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Jamaican dollar, Liberian dollar, Namibian dollar, New Taiwan dollar, New Zealand dollar, Singapore dollar, United States dollar, and several others.

A pound sterling.

See Table at currency.

The inherent nature of something.

A coin or note that is worth one dollar.

A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)

Any of various historical silver coins similar to the taler, such as a piece of eight.

Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase this for that: something offered in exchange for something else.

Money spent or available to be spent

(historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

Pound sterling usually only used with a whole number of pounds

(by extension) money generally.

Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound"

A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.

Euro

Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)

Dollar, dollars

(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.

A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.

The act of chewing such tobacco

A coin of the same general weight and value as the United States silver dollar, though differing slightly in different countries, formerly current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.

To chew tobacco.

The value of a dollar; the unit of currency, differing in value in different countries, commonly employed in the United States and a number of other countries, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, parts of the Carribbean, Liberia, and several others.

(of a horse) To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing.

The basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents

A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

An English coin, a sovereign.

A United States coin worth one dollar;

To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; - said of horses.

A symbol of commercialism or greed;

The basic unit of money in Great Britain; equal to 100 pence

Something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises

A wad of something chewable as tobacco