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Quarter   /kwˈɔrtər/  /kˈɔrtər/   Listen
Quarter

noun
1.
One of four equal parts.  Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent.
2.
A district of a city having some distinguishing character.
3.
(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided.
4.
A unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour.  "A quarter after 4 o'clock"
5.
One of four periods into which the school year is divided.
6.
A fourth part of a year; three months.
7.
One of the four major division of the compass.
8.
A quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds).
9.
A quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds).
10.
A United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar.
11.
An unspecified person.
12.
The rear part of a ship.  Synonyms: after part, poop, stern, tail.
13.
Piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp.
14.
Clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent.
verb
(past & past part. quartered; pres. part. quartering)
1.
Provide housing for (military personnel).  Synonyms: billet, canton.
2.
Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him.  Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter.
3.
Divide into quarters.
4.
Divide by four; divide into quarters.



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... clearly Socialist. The local federations of the unions in many of our leading cities have declared for the Party. Among the national organizations, however, only the Western Federation of Miners, the Brewers, the Hat and Cap Makers, the Bakers, and a few others, numbering together no more than a quarter of a million members, have definitely indorsed Socialism. The Coal Miners, numbering nearly 300,000, have indorsed collective ownership of industry, but without saying anything about the Socialist Party. Besides these, the Socialist Party, of course, has ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... upon a vocabulary of the Wakash Indians, who, according to Gallatin, "inhabit the island on which Nootka Sound is situated." The short vocabulary given was collected by Jewitt. Gallatin states[103] that this language is the one "in that quarter, which, by various vocabularies, is best known to us." In 1848[104] Gallatin repeats his Wakash family, and again gives the vocabulary of Jewitt. There would thus seem to be no doubt of his intention to give it formal rank as ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... for long distances in regular lines that do not at all resemble the winding courses of our streams. Some of the shorter ones do not reach 500 kilometers (300 miles), others, on the other hand, extend for many thousands, occupying a quarter or sometimes even a third of a circumference of the planet. Some of these are very easy to see, especially that one which is near the extreme left-hand limit of our map and is designated by the name ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... and when this anointment was completed, he had himself wrapped in flannels and placed in a warm bed. Aramis, as we have already said, had not retired. Seated at his ease in a velvet dressing-gown, he wrote letter after letter in that fine and hurried handwriting, a page of which contained a quarter of a volume. The door was thrown hurriedly open, and the superintendent appeared, pale, agitated, anxious. Aramis looked up: "Good-evening," said he, and his searching look detected his host's sadness and disordered state of mind. "Was your play as good as ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... disappointed, it was the fault of the visitor, not of Paris. She was all things to all men. To some she offered triumphal arches, statues, paintings; to others by day racing, and by night Maxims and the Rat Mort. Some loved her for the book- stalls along the Seine and ateliers of the Latin Quarter; some for her parks, forests, gardens, and boulevards; some because of the Luxembourg; some only as a place where everybody was smiling, happy, and polite, where they were never bored, where they ...
— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis


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