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quarter English

Meaning quarter meaning

What does quarter mean?
Definitions in simple English

quarter Noun

— 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. — 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? — A quarter is a period of three months, especially in business. Sales were down 3.7 percent from the fourth quarter of last year. — 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. — A quarter is one section of a city. The bar was in New Orleans' French quarter. — Quarters are the places where people live. After training, we returned to our quarters to get changed.

quarter Verb

— If you quarter something, you make it into four equal pieces. Using a sharp knife, quarter the apple. — If you quarter somebody somewhere, you give them a place to stay. We were quartered in Vienna during the job.

quarter

— noun (= fourth) one of four equal parts a quarter of a pound — noun a district of a city having some distinguishing character the Latin Quarter — noun an unspecified person he dropped a word in the right quarter — noun a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) — noun a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds) — noun a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar he fed four quarters into the slot machine — noun one of the four major division of the compass the wind is coming from that quarter — noun (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided both teams scored in the first quarter — noun a fourth part of a year; three months unemployment fell during the last quarter — noun one of four periods into which the school year is divided the fall quarter ends at Christmas — noun 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 — noun clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent he surrendered but asked for quarter — noun piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp — verb divide by four; divide into quarters — verb divide into quarters quarter an apple — verb provide housing for (military personnel) — verb (= draw, draw and 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 — noun (= stern) the rear part of a ship

Synonyms quarter synonyms

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quarter English » English

fourth district one-fourth neighborhood fourth part neighbourhood area region lodge billet direction twenty-five cents side section quartern part mercy locality house canton trimester thigh tail stern shelter room quarters poop lodging hand draw and quarter draw after part two bits twenty-five percent term residence quarterly quartering quadrant place one-quarter keep housing city district borough barrack accommodation accommodate zone

Topics quarter topics

What do people use quarter to talk about?
States Quantity Number

Fraction
Daily life Food Food preparation

Steps in food preparation
Work and occupation Finance Money

Monetary units
Physical actions

Divide into pieces
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Cut
States Time Period of time

Season
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Universe, creation Sky Sun

Moon
Social behavior Social activity Music

Compose music

Conjugation quarter conjugation

How do you conjugate quarter?

quarter · verb

Examples quarter examples

How do I use quarter in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It happened at a quarter past eleven.
It's a quarter past nine.
It is a little after a quarter to eleven.
It's quarter to eight now.
I have my supper at a quarter past seven.
Sales fell off in the third quarter.
As is usual with him, he arrived a quarter of an hour late.
It's a quarter past eight.
Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.
I ate a quarter of a cake.
He'll come at quarter past three.

Movie subtitles

Between 1 330 and 1 479, a quarter of deaths in the English aristocracy were violent.
A quarter of an hour later.
Western cattle opened at 15 and a quarter.
He was a very rich man. with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and an ardent sportsman.
Almost a quarter million in jewels.
What's gonna happen with that quarter million?
THAT'S A GOOD QUARTER CIGAR.
And the quarter goes to the bellhop. - Hey, that's my case two bits. - Here comes Fred.
Go to the sheriff's office, a quarter mile down the road.
A quarter of a cent levied on every head of lettuce.
I'm leaving here at a quarter of.
Bet if you squeezed it you'd get a quarter of whiskey out of it. Sam, or George.
No quarter.
Here's a quarter.
You're not. You're a quarter Kabyle.
You're half Spanish, a quarter Kabyle and a quarter French.
This quarter isn't safe at night.
Two minutes left to play in the first quarter, and what a lacing the Huxley team is getting.
What happened to that quarter of beef?
A quarter cigar.
The train setting is a miniature on a three-quarter-inch scale, created for this film by Charlie Baker and his miniature unit at Universal.
Jeremy, helm quarter to port.
About 15 minutes to a quarter of an hour.
That'll be a quarter.
A quarter pound steak's just coming. - OK.
I will find for myself a place in a modest quarter.
One for all and all for me, and me for you and three for five and six for a quarter.
IN A MONTH, I'LL HAVE SERVED 25 YEARS- A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.
That ring's worth at least 5 and a quarter.
I'm going now, and I'm coming back at a quarter to 7:00.
Quarter to 7:00.
Where will I get the other quarter?
And a quarter with gardens and trees?
That's a quarter- 25 cents American money. No, thank you.
Where am I gonna get a quarter from?

News and current affairs

One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter-century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
Much of arid sub-Saharan Africa, notably in the Sahel (the region just south of the Sahara desert), has experienced a pronounced drop in rainfall over the past quarter-century.
During the crisis, taxpayers were on the hook for almost a quarter of national income.
Those resources may include a tenth, a quarter, or even half of their income.
These entire female population was excluded, and only one-quarter of the male population was eligible to vote.
To be sure, it maintained a navy equal in size to the next two fleets combined, and its empire, on which the sun never set, ruled over a quarter of humankind.
That position lasted until 1970, when the US share of global GDP fell to its pre-war level of one-quarter.
Britain had an empire on which the sun never set, ruled more than a quarter of humankind, and enjoyed naval supremacy.
That's the equivalent of adding productive power equal to a quarter of the economy of India - and adding it every year.
Although output is now higher than it was in the fourth quarter of 2007, it remains far below what could be produced if labor and capacity were fully utilized.
PARIS - Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states.
And every quarter brought new write-offs that ruined efforts to rebuild the bank's reputation and its employees' morale.
They are trying to cook up ways to discipline financial firms, albeit without conspicuous success so far, as demonstrated by the large sums stashed away for employee compensation by Goldman Sachs after its most recent profitable quarter.
In some states, where a single felony conviction is enough to bar the offender from ever being able to vote again, over one quarter of African American males are disenfranchised.
The official national income accounting data for the second quarter are now available, and they show that the rebates did very little to stimulate spending.
In Sydney, home prices actually fell in the second quarter.
The US and Europe are in direct competition with Brazil, China, India, and other emerging economies, where wage levels are sometimes one-quarter those in high-income countries (if not even lower).
In terms of power-projection force capabilities or the range of military bases and security allies in Asia, no power or combination of powers is likely to match the US in the next quarter-century.
For those reading the tea leaves of global recovery, the third-quarter GDP numbers offered no solace.

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