Quarter (adjective)
Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
Quarter (adjective)
Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
“a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound”
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.”
Quarter (noun)
Any fourth of something, particularly:
Quarter (noun)
A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
Quarter (noun)
A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season.
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
Quarter (noun)
The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade
Quarter (noun)
The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year.
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.
Quarter (noun)
A period into which a game is divided. usually 8, 10 or 12 minutes according to the rules.
Quarter (noun)
Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly:
Quarter (noun)
quarterfinal
Quarter (noun)
A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole.
Quarter (noun)
A living place, from which:
Quarter (noun)
A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.
Quarter (noun)
Amity, friendship, concord; now accommodation given to a defeated opponent, mercy.
Quarter (noun)
The part on either side of a horse’s hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
Quarter (verb)
To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
Quarter (verb)
To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
“Quarter the horses in the third stable.”
Quarter (verb)
To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
Quarter (verb)
To quartersaw.
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.
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”
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”
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”
Quarter (noun)
a coin representing 25 cents, a quarter of a US or Canadian dollar.
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.
Quarter (noun)
one fourth of a lunar month.
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”
Quarter (noun)
one of four terms into which a school or university year may be divided.
Quarter (noun)
one fourth of a pound weight (avoirdupois, equal to 4 ounces).
Quarter (noun)
one fourth of a hundredweight (in the UK 28 lb or in the US 25lb).
Quarter (noun)
a grain measure equivalent to 8 bushels.
Quarter (noun)
the haunches or hindquarters of a horse
“they have strong, muscular quarters”
Quarter (noun)
a part of a town or city having a particular character or use
“a beautiful port city with a fascinating medieval quarter”
Quarter (noun)
the direction of one of the points of the compass, especially as a direction from which the wind blows.
Quarter (noun)
a particular but unspecified person, group of people, or area
“we have just had help from an unexpected quarter”
Quarter (noun)
either side of a ship aft of the beam
“he trained his glasses over the starboard quarter”
Quarter (noun)
rooms or lodgings, especially those allocated to people in military or domestic service
“they lived in RAF married quarters”
Quarter (noun)
pity or mercy shown towards an enemy or opponent who is in one’s power
“the riot squad gave no quarter”
Quarter (noun)
each of four or more roughly equal divisions of a shield separated by vertical and horizontal lines.
Quarter (noun)
a square charge which covers the top left (dexter chief) quarter of the field.
Quarter (verb)
divide into four equal or corresponding parts
“peel and quarter the bananas”
Quarter (verb)
cut (the body of an executed person) into four parts
“the plotters were hanged, drawn, and quartered”
Quarter (verb)
cut (a log) into quarters, and these into planks so as to show the grain well.
Quarter (verb)
be stationed or lodged in a specified place
“many were quartered in tents”
Quarter (verb)
impose someone on (another person) as a lodger
“you would have had her quartered on you forever”
Quarter (verb)
range over or traverse (an area) in every direction
“we watched a pair of kingfishers quartering the river looking for minnows”
Quarter (verb)
move at an angle; go in a diagonal or zigzag direction
“his young dog quartered back and forth in quick turns”
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”
Quarter (verb)
divide (a shield) into four or more parts by vertical and horizontal lines.