Quater vs. Quarter

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  • 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.

Wiktionary
  • 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.

Oxford Dictionary

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