Quarter

['kwɔːtə] or ['kwɔrtɚ]

Definition

(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.

(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 United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar; 'he fed four quarters into the slot machine'.

(noun.) a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds).

(noun.) a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds).

(noun.) one of the four major division of the compass; 'the wind is coming from that 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.) (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided; 'both teams scored in the first quarter'.

(verb.) divide by four; divide into quarters.

(verb.) divide into quarters; 'quarter an apple'.

(verb.) provide housing for (military personnel).

Typist: Melba--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc.

(n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds.

(n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal.

(n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full.

(n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters.

(n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp.

(n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin.

(n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter.

(n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.

(n.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings.

(n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

(v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.

(v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud.

(v. t.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ 15', that is, about 2¡ 49'; -- called also quarter point.

(v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.

(v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters.

(v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes.

(v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord.

(v. i.) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

(v. i.) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

Checker: Rita

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Fourth part.[2]. District, region, territory, locality, place.[3]. Mercy (granted by a conqueror).

v. a. [1]. Divide in four equal parts.[2]. Divide, separate into parts or compartments.[3]. Lodge, BILLET, furnish with quarters (as soldiers).

v. n. Lodge, abide, have lodgings.

Inputed by Dennis

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Region, district, locality, territory, mercy, forbearance, pity

ANT:Extermination, mercilessness, unsparingness, pitilessness, ruthless, ness

Inputed by Harvey

Definition

n. a fourth part: the fourth part of a cwt.=28 lb. avoirdupois (abbrev. qr.): 8 bushels as a measure of capacity for grain &c.: the fourth part of an hour—of the year—of the moon's period—of a carcass (including a limb)—of the horizon &c.: a cardinal point: (her.) one of the four parts into which a shield is divided by quartering (dexter chief sinister chief dexter base sinister base) an ordinary occupying one-fourth of the field: a region of a hemisphere: a division of a town &c.: place of lodging as for soldiers esp. in pl.: mercy granted to a disabled antagonist prob. from the idea of the captor sending the prisoner to his quarters: (Shak.) peace concord: (naut.) the part of a ship's side between the mainmast and the stern.—v.t. to divide into four equal parts: to divide into parts or compartments: to furnish with quarters: to lodge: to allot or share: to furnish with entertainment: (her.) to bear as an appendage to the hereditary arms: to beat the ground for game.—v.i. to be stationed: to shift or change position: to range for game: to drive across a road from side to side.—ns. Quar′terāge a quarterly payment: quarters lodging: a name applied to a particular tax; Quar′ter-back a certain player or position in football (see Back); Quar′ter-bend a bend in a pipe or rod altering its direction 90? Quar′ter-bill a list of the stations for men on board a man-of-war during action; Quar′ter-blank′et a horse-blanket for the hind quarters.—n.pl. Quar′ter-blocks blocks fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side the slings for the topsail-sheets &c. to reeve through.—ns. Quar′ter-board topgallant bulwarks; Quar′ter-boat any boat hung to davits over the ship's quarter; Quar′ter-boot a leather boot to protect an overreaching horse's fore feet from being struck by the hind feet.—adj. Quar′ter-bound having leather or cloth on the back only.—n.pl. Quar′ter-boys automata which strike the quarter-hours in certain belfries.—adjs. Quar′ter-bred having only one-fourth pure blood as horses cattle &c.; Quar′ter-cast cut in the quarter of the hoof.—ns. Quar′ter-day the first or last day of a quarter on which rent or interest is paid; Quar′ter-deck the part of the deck of a ship abaft the mainmast; Quar′ter-deck′er (coll.) a stickler for small points of etiquette on board ship.—adj. Quar′tered divided into four equal parts: lodged stationed for lodging: having hind quarters of a particular kind as a short-quartered horse: sawed into quarters: (her.) having a square piece cut out of the centre.—ns. Quar′ter-ē′vil -ill symptomatic anthrax an infectious and frequently fatal disease of cattle marked by hemorrhage into the subcutaneous areolar tissue of the limbs—also Black-leg Quarter or Spaul &c.; Quar′terfoil (archit.) an ornamental carving disposed in four segments of circles like an expanded flower; Quar′ter-gall′ery a projecting balcony on each of the quarters of a large ship: a small structure on a ship's quarters containing the water-closet and bath-tub; Quar′ter-gun′ner a petty-officer in the United States navy having care under the gunner of arms ammunition &c.—adj. Quar′tering sailing nearly before the wind: striking on the quarter of a ship as a wind.—n. assignment of quarters to soldiers: (archit.) a series of small upright posts for forming partitions of rooms lathed and plastered only or boarded also: (her.) the bearing of two or more coats-of-arms on a shield divided by horizontal and perpendicular lines denoting the alliances of the family—also one of the divisions thus formed.—ns. Quar′tering-block a block on which the body of a person condemned to be quartered was cut in pieces; Quar′ter-line the position of ships of a column ranged in a line when one is four points forward or abaft another's beam.—adj. Quar′terly relating to a quarter: consisting of or containing a fourth part: once a quarter of a year.—adv. once a quarter: (her.) arranged according to the four quarters of a shield.—n. a periodical published every quarter of a year.—ns. Quar′termaster an officer who looks after the quarters of the soldiers and attends to the supplies—he is assisted by a non-commissioned officer named Quar′termaster-ser′geant: (naut.) a first-class petty officer who attends to the helm signals &c.; Quar′termaster-gen′eral in the British army a staff-officer of high rank (major-general or colonel) who deals with all questions of transport marches quarters fuel clothing &c.; Quar′tern the fourth part of a peck a stone or a pint: the quarter of a pound; Quar′tern-loaf a loaf weighing generally four pounds; Quarteroon′ (see Quadroon); Quar′ter-plate in photography a size of plate measuring 3?by 4?inches: a picture of this size; Quar′ter-round a moulding having an outline approximating to a quadrant an ovolo: any tool adapted for making such; Quar′ter-seal the seal kept by the director of the Chancery of Scotland—the testimonial of the Great Seal; Quar′ter-ses′sions a criminal court held quarterly by Justices of the Peace established in 1350-51 but having had most of its administrative powers transferred in 1888 to the County Councils: county or borough sessions held quarterly; Quar′ter-staff a long staff or weapon of defence grasped at a quarter of its length from the end and at the middle; Quar′ter-tone (mus.) an interval equivalent to one-half of a semitone; Quar′ter-watch (naut.) one-half of the watch on deck; Quartette′ Quartet′ anything in fours: a musical composition of four parts for voices or instruments: a stanza of four lines.—adj. Quar′tic (math.) of the fourth degree or order.—n. an algebraic function of the fourth degree.—n. Quar′tile (astrol.) an aspect of planets when their longitudes differ by 90?—adj. Quar′to having the sheet folded into four leaves (abbrev. 4to).—n. a book of a quarto size:—pl. Quar′tos (demy quarto 8??11?in.; medium quarto 9??11?in.; royal quarto 10 ?12?in.).—Beat up the quarters of to disturb: to visit unceremoniously; Come to close quarters to get into a hand-to-hand struggle.—Small quarto a square octavo: a book having eight leaves to a sheet but the shape of a quarto.—Winter quarters the quarters or station of an army during the winter.

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