Fourth
[fɔːθ] or [fɔrθ]
Definition
(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it.
(noun.) following the third position; number four in a countable series.
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
(a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
(n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
(n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
Typist: Rudy
Examples
- In the present state of Europe, the share of the landlord seldom exceeds a third, sometimes not a fourth part of the whole produce of the land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We backed a horse named Light For Me that finished fourth in a field of five. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was in hopes there would be act the fourth, retorted I; but, seriously, what do you understand by a scene? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On the fourth morning all vanished. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- On the fourth day the fever broke as suddenly as it had come, but it left D'Arnot a shadow of his former self, and very weak. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The Fourth of July was safe, as far as the Mediterranean was concerned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A barrel of herrings is supposed to require about one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel foreign salt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The thunder of our two brave cannon announced the Fourth of July, at daylight, to all who were awake. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am a connoisseur, said he, taking another cigarette from the box--his fourth--and lighting it from the stub of that which he had finished. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A second followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, and ultimately the whole barrow was peopled with burdened figures. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The third contented herself with wondering 'what ladies was made of'; and the fourth took the first in a quartette of 'Shameful! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Another packet arrived; she too was detained, and before we sailed a fourth was expected. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You describe three-fourths of the world, Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It might be more according to the rights of things, to say Two-thirds; it might be more according to the rights of things, to say Three-fourths. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is estimated that more than 180,000 machines of the self-binding type are now produced yearly, the manufacturers in Chicago alone turning out more than three-fourths of this number. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The photographs on the film, one by three-fourths of an inch in size, leave a margin of five thirty-seconds of an inch on each side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Half or three-fourths-inch rods with heavy caps at the ends should be sufficient, and are easily put in place before the boards are tacked to the partition. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Jeweler’s gold is usually a mixture of gold and copper in the proportions of three-fourths of pure gold with one-fourth of copper. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As fully three-fourths of the area of their exterior framework consists of windows, an abundance of daylight is secured. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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