[
UK
/kwˈɔːtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈkwɔɹtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɔɹtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
-
a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
it's a quarter til 4
a quarter after 4 o'clock -
one of the four major division of the compass
the wind is coming from that quarter -
(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
both teams scored in the first quarter -
one of four periods into which the school year is divided
the fall quarter ends at Christmas -
one of four equal parts
a quarter of a pound -
a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
he fed four quarters into the slot machine -
a district of a city having some distinguishing character
the Latin Quarter - piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
-
clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
he surrendered but asked for quarter -
an unspecified person
he dropped a word in the right quarter -
a fourth part of a year; three months
unemployment fell during the last quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- the rear part of a ship
VERB
-
divide into quarters
quarter an apple - provide housing for (military personnel)
-
pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes - divide by four; divide into quarters
How To Use quarter In A Sentence
- Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
- I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
- Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
- The AWPL, however, features eight-minute quarters providing 32 total minutes of game play and a little more lactic build-up, leg burn, and lung fatigue for the athletes.
- After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
- Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
- The defensive line is a strength, but the team would like more quarterback sacks from the left side.
- The RV maker last month posted its third-straight quarterly profit, topping Wall Street forecasts, as motor home deliveries rose.
- Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
- Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, posted a 76 % drop in profits for the second quarter.
