| fourth | | |
| n. (linkdef) | 1. fourth | following the third position; number four in a countable series. |
| ~ rank | relative status.; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority" |
| n. (quantity) | 2. fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent | one of four equal parts.; "a quarter of a pound" |
| ~ common fraction, simple fraction | the quotient of two integers. |
| n. (communication) | 3. fourth | the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it. |
| ~ musical interval, interval | the difference in pitch between two notes. |
| adj. | 4. 4th, fourth, quaternary | coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude.; "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present" |
| ~ ordinal | being or denoting a numerical order in a series.; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" |
| adv. | 5. fourth, fourthly | in the fourth place.; "fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month" |
| quarter | | |
| n. (location) | 1. 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. |
| ~ skid road | the district of a town frequented by loggers. |
| ~ barrio | a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States). |
| n. (time) | 2. quarter | (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided.; "both teams scored in the first quarter" |
| ~ football, football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal. |
| ~ professional basketball | playing basketball for money. |
| ~ division, section, part | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" |
| ~ 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" |
| n. (time) | 3. 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" |
| n. (time) | 4. 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" |
| n. (time) | 5. 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" |
| n. (linkdef) | 6. 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. |
| n. (quantity) | 7. quarter | a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds). |
| ~ avoirdupois unit | any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights. |
| ~ lb, pound | 16 ounces avoirdupois.; "he got a hernia when 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. |
| n. (quantity) | 8. quarter | a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds). |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (possession) | 9. quarter | a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar.; "he fed four quarters into the slot machine" |
| ~ coin | a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money. |
| n. (person) | 10. quarter | an unspecified person.; "he dropped a word in the right quarter" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| n. (artifact) | 11. after part, poop, quarter, stern, tail | 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. |
| n. (artifact) | 12. quarter | piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp. |
| ~ piece of leather | a separate part consisting of leather. |
| ~ upper | piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot.; "Uppers come in many styles" |
| n. (act) | 13. quarter | clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent.; "he surrendered but asked for quarter" |
| ~ mercy, clemency, mercifulness | leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice.; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court" |
| v. (stative) | 14. billet, canton, 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" |
| v. (social) | 15. draw, draw and quarter, 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" |
| v. (contact) | 16. quarter | divide into quarters.; "quarter an apple" |
| ~ section, segment | divide into segments.; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" |
| v. (cognition) | 17. 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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