Dealers often say counter currency or terms currency where retail platforms say quote-currency. They mean the same thing: the currency doing the pricing. In USD/CAD the Canadian dollar is the counter currency, so the quote 1.3620 is read as Canadian dollars per US dollar.
The label matters for profit and loss. A move in the pair produces a result in the counter currency first, which is then converted into your account-currency at whatever rate the broker applies.
Example: you are long 1 standard lot of USD/CAD and the rate rises from 1.3620 to 1.3670. The gain is 100,000 x 0.0050 = CAD 500. Converted at 1.3670, that is about USD 365.76 in a dollar-denominated account.
Related: quote-currency, base-currency