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Quarter (adjective)
Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
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Quarter (adjective)
Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
“a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound”
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Quarter (adjective)
Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
“A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.”
“A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.”
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Quarter (noun)
Any fourth of something, particularly:
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Quarter (noun)
A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
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Quarter (noun)
A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season.
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Quarter (noun)
The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for measures of wine, ale, and grain
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Quarter (noun)
The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade
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Quarter (noun)
The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year.
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Quarter (noun)
A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
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Quarter (noun)
A period into which a game is divided. usually 8, 10 or 12 minutes according to the rules.
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Quarter (noun)
Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly:
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Quarter (noun)
quarterfinal
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Quarter (noun)
A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole.
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Quarter (noun)
A living place, from which:
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Quarter (noun)
A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.
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Quarter (noun)
Amity, friendship, concord; now accommodation given to a defeated opponent, mercy.
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Quarter (noun)
The part on either side of a horse’s hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
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Quarter (verb)
To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
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Quarter (verb)
To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
“Quarter the horses in the third stable.”
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Quarter (verb)
To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
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Quarter (verb)
To quartersaw.
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Quarter (verb)
To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
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Quarter (noun)
each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided
“a page and a quarter”
“a quarter of a mile”
“she cut each apple into quarters”
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Quarter (noun)
a period of three months regarded as one fourth of a year, used especially in reference to financial transactions such as the payment of bills or a company’s earnings
“the first quarter of the fiscal year”
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Quarter (noun)
a period of fifteen minutes or a point of time marking the transition from one fifteen-minute period to the next
“he sat with his pint until a quarter past nine”
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Quarter (noun)
a coin representing 25 cents, a quarter of a US or Canadian dollar.
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Quarter (noun)
each of the four parts into which an animal’s or bird’s carcass may be divided, each including a leg or wing.
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Quarter (noun)
one fourth of a lunar month.
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Quarter (noun)
(in basketball, American football, and Australian Rules) each of four equal periods into which a game is divided
“there were four scores in the opening quarter”
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Quarter (noun)
one of four terms into which a school or university year may be divided.
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Quarter (noun)
one fourth of a pound weight (avoirdupois, equal to 4 ounces).
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Quarter (noun)
one fourth of a hundredweight (in the UK 28 lb or in the US 25lb).
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Quarter (noun)
a grain measure equivalent to 8 bushels.
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Quarter (noun)
the haunches or hindquarters of a horse
“they have strong, muscular quarters”
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Quarter (noun)
a part of a town or city having a particular character or use
“a beautiful port city with a fascinating medieval quarter”
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Quarter (noun)
the direction of one of the points of the compass, especially as a direction from which the wind blows.
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Quarter (noun)
a particular but unspecified person, group of people, or area
“we have just had help from an unexpected quarter”
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Quarter (noun)
either side of a ship aft of the beam
“he trained his glasses over the starboard quarter”
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Quarter (noun)
rooms or lodgings, especially those allocated to people in military or domestic service
“they lived in RAF married quarters”
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Quarter (noun)
pity or mercy shown towards an enemy or opponent who is in one’s power
“the riot squad gave no quarter”
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Quarter (noun)
each of four or more roughly equal divisions of a shield separated by vertical and horizontal lines.
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Quarter (noun)
a square charge which covers the top left (dexter chief) quarter of the field.
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Quarter (verb)
divide into four equal or corresponding parts
“peel and quarter the bananas”
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Quarter (verb)
cut (the body of an executed person) into four parts
“the plotters were hanged, drawn, and quartered”
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Quarter (verb)
cut (a log) into quarters, and these into planks so as to show the grain well.
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Quarter (verb)
be stationed or lodged in a specified place
“many were quartered in tents”
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Quarter (verb)
impose someone on (another person) as a lodger
“you would have had her quartered on you forever”
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Quarter (verb)
range over or traverse (an area) in every direction
“we watched a pair of kingfishers quartering the river looking for minnows”
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Quarter (verb)
move at an angle; go in a diagonal or zigzag direction
“his young dog quartered back and forth in quick turns”
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Quarter (verb)
display (different coats of arms) in quarters of a shield, especially to show arms inherited from heiresses who have married into the bearer’s family
“Edward III quartered the French royal arms with his own”
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Quarter (verb)
divide (a shield) into four or more parts by vertical and horizontal lines.