Talk:quinella

verb sense verified. Removed rfvsense Andrew massyn 16:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

quinella
Verb sense: to have two members of the same team finish one and two in a competition. Supposedly went through RfV in 2006, but cites out of format, don't seem durably archived. Search didn't reveal any archived discussion of RfV process. Verb might be citable. DCDuring TALK 04:28, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * gets more than 133 hits; the sense seems to be “to win both first place and second place in (a competition)”, usually in clauses of the form “&lt;competitor&gt; and &lt;competitor&gt; quinnellaed &lt;competition&gt;”. It doesn't seem to be a given that the two competitors must be from the same team; and even aside from this, our current definition needs to be rephrased to correctly identify the subject. —Ruakh TALK 11:16, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * That's something I didn't get. I thought at least that the horses would be from the same stable, the Olympians would both be from Africa, if not Kenya, etc. The problem with with subject derives from the sense of the "sides" being a little nebulous, but, to me, unmistakable. I wonder if a bettor can "quinella" a race, so that the "same side" is more open-ended than def. now shows. Though the noun usage is mostly about betting, the verb didn't seem to be. Most of the usage seemed to be from the Melbourne Age and a New Zealand newspaper that might be repeating the same stories. I didn't check bylines, but this might be the product of one writer. DCDuring TALK 11:30, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it does seem that the two winners have to be "same" somehow, just not the same team necessarily. The problem I meant about the subject is that our definition implies the subject should be some third party, since this sense of "have" is used to mark a non-participant as a topic ("yesterday I had a good friend get hurt in a car crash" means something like "yesterday a good friend of mine got hurt in a car crash, and you can imagine how that makes me feel"). So according to our definition, the subject could perhaps refer to the team/stable/continent/country, or to the bettor/audience/venue; but in fact, it seems usually to refer to the first-and-second-place winners themselves. —Ruakh TALK 12:47, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I suppose you don't want to hear of trifected, which is what Kenya often does in the distance events. (Unless Ethiopia is also there ;-) (yes, there are a few random googles, but more are mis-forms of trisected)Robert Ullmann 12:53, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * RU: Do you have google alerts set to notify you when Kenya comes up in Wiktionary? DCDuring TALK 14:48, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

from the entry:
 * 1) * Australia quinella'd in the 400m, with Thorpe narrowly beating Hackett.
 * 2) * quiz 1 ) Which two horses quinellaed the 2001 Geelong Cup ? ... 13 ) Which two ( then ) relatively unknown youngsters quinellaed the 2000 Derby Trial ? Unknown source
 * 3) * Price ruler at CaulfieldMick Price’s spring carnival is off to a good start when he quinellaed today’s feature race at Caulfield – the Group 2 Liston Stakes (1400m). Thoroughbred news
 * 4) * Rising Haradasun buoys Rawiller - Horseracing - Sport - smh.com.auFor trainer Mick Price, it was also a red-letter day, as he quinellaed the Liston Stakes when Pompeii Ruler defeated stablemate Red Dazzler in a punishing ... Sydney Morning Heraldl