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amusement
Noun
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Amusement is the feeling you have when something is fun or funny or makes you laugh.
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An amusement is something that gets your attention and that you like; something like playing; something that is good but not useful.
Movies, video games and toys are amusements.
An amusement park has games, special food, and rides like a roller coaster and a merry-go-round.
Movie theaters, arcade and restaurants are good places for amusement.
quarter
Noun
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A quarter is one fourth math(1/4)/math of something.
The lake was about a quarter mile from town.
About a quarter of the students came from outside the United States.
There's an old house three quarters of the way up that mountain.
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A quarter is a unit of money worth 25 cents in the United States and Canada.
Can you give me four quarters for this dollar?
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A quarter is a period of three months, especially in business.
Sales were down 3.7 percent from the fourth quarter of last year.
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A quarter is one of four a periods of time, especially in sports.
He threw four touchdown passes in the fourth quarter leading to a 38-28 win.
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A quarter is one section of a city.
The bar was in New Orleans' French quarter.
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Quarters are the places where people live.
After training, we returned to our quarters to get changed.
quarter
Verb
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If you quarter something, you make it into four equal pieces.
Using a sharp knife, quarter the apple.
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If you quarter somebody somewhere, you give them a place to stay.
We were quartered in Vienna during the job.