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Quarter

Noun1.quarter - one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers
2.quarter - a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter"
city district - a district of a town or city
ghetto - formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
casbah, kasbah - an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located
medina - the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa
barrio - a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
3.quarter - one of four periods of play into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter"
period of play, playing period, play - (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds; "rain stopped play in the 4th inning"
4.quarter - 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"
time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods
60 minutes, hour, hr - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"
5.quarter - one of four periods into which the school year is divided; "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"
academic year, school year - the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying
academic session, academic term, school term, session - the time during which a school holds classes; "they had to shorten the school term"
6.quarter - a fourth part of a year; three months; "unemployment fell during the last quarter"
period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
7.quarter - one of the four major division of the compass; "the wind is coming from that quarter"
orientation - position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
8.quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
lb, pound - 16 ounces; "he tried to lift 100 pounds"
stone - an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
cental, cwt, short hundredweight, hundredweight, quintal, centner - a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
9.quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
Great Britain, UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, GB - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland
British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit - a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet
bushel - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks
long hundredweight, cwt, hundredweight - a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
10.quarter - a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"
coin - a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
11.quarter - an unspecified person; "he dropped a word in the right quarter"
human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
12.quarter - the rear part of a ship
escutcheon - (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed
back, rear - the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"
ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
skeg - a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost
13.quarter - piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
piece of leather - a piece of leather
upper - piece of leather that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole
Verb1.quarter - provide housing for (military personnel)
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
lodge, accommodate - provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"
2.quarter - 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"
kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
3.quarter - divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"
section, segment - divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
4.quarter - divide by four; divide into quarters
arithmetic - the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations
fraction, divide - perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"

 

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