quarter – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: city district,
period of play,
academic session,
school term,
orientation,
british capacity unit,
mortal,
someone,
back,
mercy,
accommodate,
section
quarter
v.
divide into 4 equal parts; divide into parts; house, accommodate; lodge, stay
n.
one fourth; neighborhood; coin worth 25 cents (used in USA and Canada); quadrant; period of three months; place, location; district, region; mercy, clemency
adj.
being one fourth; being one forth in quality; having four equal parts
Quarter
A
quarter is one fourth, , 25% or 0.25 and may refer to:
- Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
- Quarter section, an area of one-fourth of a square mile, or
- Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar
- Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar
- Quarter of a calendar year
- Academic quarter (year division), a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks
- Academic quarter (class timing), term used by universities in various European countries for the 15 minutes between the defined start time for a lecture and the actual time it will start
- Fiscal quarter, one fourth (three months) of a fiscal year
- Quarter (unit), various obsolete customary units of measurement
- Quartier (unit), an obsolete French units of measurement
quarter
Noun
1. one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
(synonym) one-fourth, fourth, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quartern
(hypernym) common fraction, simple fraction
2. a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter"
(hypernym) city district
(hyponym) ghetto
3. one of four periods of play into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter"
(hypernym) playing period, period of play, play
4. 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"
(hypernym) time unit, unit of time
(part-holonym) hour, hr, 60 minutes
5. one of four periods into which the school year is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"
(hypernym) school term, academic term, academic session, session
(part-holonym) school year, academic year
6. a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter"
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
7. one of the four major division of the compass; "the wind is coming from that quarter"
(hypernym) orientation
8. a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
(hypernym) avoirdupois unit
(part-holonym) hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal
(part-meronym) pound, lb
9. a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
(hypernym) British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
(part-holonym) hundredweight, cwt, long hundredweight
(part-meronym) bushel
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
10. a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"
(hypernym) coin
11. an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter"
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
12. the rear part of a ship
(synonym) stern, after part, poop, tail
(hypernym) rear, back
(part-holonym) ship
(part-meronym) escutcheon
13. piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
(hypernym) piece of leather
(part-holonym) upper
Verb
1. provide housing for (military personnel)
(synonym) billet, canton
(hypernym) lodge, accommodate
(derivation) living quarters, quarters
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
2. 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"
(synonym) draw, draw and quarter
(hypernym) kill
(derivation) one-fourth, fourth, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quartern
3. divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"
(hypernym) segment, section
(derivation) one-fourth, fourth, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quartern
4. divide by four; divide into quarters
(hypernym) divide, fraction
(derivation) quartering
(classification) arithmetic
Quarter (der)
nm.
quarter, one fourth
quarter
v.
quarter, divide into 4 equal parts; divide into parts; house, accommodate; lodge, stay