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Quarter   /kwˈɔrtər/  /kˈɔrtər/   Listen
Quarter

noun
1.
One of four equal parts.  Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent.
2.
A district of a city having some distinguishing character.
3.
(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided.
4.
A unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour.  "A quarter after 4 o'clock"
5.
One of four periods into which the school year is divided.
6.
A fourth part of a year; three months.
7.
One of the four major division of the compass.
8.
A quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds).
9.
A quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds).
10.
A United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar.
11.
An unspecified person.
12.
The rear part of a ship.  Synonyms: after part, poop, stern, tail.
13.
Piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp.
14.
Clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent.
verb
(past & past part. quartered; pres. part. quartering)
1.
Provide housing for (military personnel).  Synonyms: billet, canton.
2.
Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him.  Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter.
3.
Divide into quarters.
4.
Divide by four; divide into quarters.



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"Quarter" Quotes from Famous Books



... perishing for lack of necessaries, stores were wasted. Money was scarce and public credit bad. Early in 1778 congress had 5,500,000 paper dollars in circulation, and the value of its paper dollar was from half to a quarter of the silver dollar. Above all, the Americans had no fleet, and were consequently unable to protect their sea-board. Their alliance with France and subsequently with Spain brought them, along with other help, the sea-power without which ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt

... more scholars have probably passed through it than through any other similar place in the town; old scholars—men and women now—who received their religious education here, are in all parts, and there is not a quarter of the globe where some may not be found who have a pleasant recollection of the school. Its average day attendance is 240; its average Sunday morning attendance 275; whilst on a Sunday afternoon the regular number is 425. The school, which is conveniently arranged and well fit up with every sort ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus

... a glance at him. His face was beaming. She had thought he had taken her to that dingy, unknown quarter as a temporary precaution. Would he really expect her to make her ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall

... here, my dear reader might have seen the historian set fast in a double sense. I was obliged, for that evening, February 16, 1783, to retreat, as the sun had just done before me. I made my approaches from another quarter, April 13, when the hill appeared the work of nature, upon too broad a base for a tumolus; covering about three acres, perfectly round, rising gradually to the center, which is about sixteen feet above the level, surrounded ...
— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton

... quarter of Athens, probably south of the Acropolis. See Lieut.-Col. Leake's 'Topography of Athens,' ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch


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