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Qué (quién) es quarter - definición
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0.25; Quartier; Quartiers; One quarter; One fourth; Quarter (disambiguation); $0.25; Quarters; Quarter (coin); 25c; Quarters (disambiguation); Quarters (song); 25%; Quarter (time)
quarter
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n.
mercy
1) to give, show quarter (the mercenaries gave no quarter)
2) to ask for; receive quarter
one fourth
3) (in telling time) (a) quarter of (AE), to (the hour) (it was a quarter to five)
4) (a) quarter after (AE), past (the hour) (it is a quarter past five)
II
v. (esp. mil.) (D; tr.) ('to assign to a lodging place') to quarter on, upon (to quarter troops on the local population)
Quarter
·vt Friendship; amity; concord.
II. Quarter ·vi To Lodge; to have a temporary residence.
III. Quarter ·vt Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.
IV. Quarter ·noun That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp.
V. Quarter ·vt A station at which officers and men are posted in battle;
- usually in the plural.
VI. Quarter ·vt Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment;
- usually in the plural.
VII. Quarter ·noun That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin.
VIII. Quarter ·vt A small upright timber post, used in partitions;
- in the United States more commonly called stud.
IX. Quarter ·vt A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.
X. Quarter ·noun The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full.
XI. Quarter ·vt A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters.
XII. Quarter ·noun The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.
XIII. Quarter ·noun A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, ·etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter.
XIV. Quarter ·noun The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds.
XV. Quarter ·vi 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.
XVI. Quarter ·noun 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.
XVII. Quarter ·noun 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.
XVIII. Quarter ·noun 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.
XIX. Quarter ·vt 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.
XX. Quarter ·vt 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.
XXI. Quarter ·noun 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.
XXII. Quarter ·noun 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.
quarter
(quarters, quartering, quartered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A quarter is one of four equal parts of something.
A quarter of the residents are over 55 years old...
I've got to go in a quarter of an hour...
Prices have fallen by a quarter since January...
Cut the peppers into quarters.
FRACTION
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Quarter is also a predeterminer.
The largest asteroid is Ceres, which is about a quarter the size of the moon.
PREDET
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Quarter is also an adjective.
...the past quarter century...
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
A quarter is a fixed period of three months. Companies often divide their financial year into four quarters.
The group said results for the third quarter are due on October 29.
N-COUNT: usu sing
3.
When you are telling the time, you use quarter to talk about the fifteen minutes before or after an hour. For example, 8.15 is quarter past eight, and 8.45 is quarter to nine. In American English, you can also say that 8.15 is a quarter after eight and 8.45 is a quarter of nine.
It was a quarter to six...
I got a call at quarter of seven one night...
N-UNCOUNT: also a N
4.
If you quarter something such as a fruit or a vegetable, you cut it into four roughly equal parts.
Chop the mushrooms and quarter the tomatoes.
VERB: V n
5.
If the number or size of something is quartered, it is reduced to about a quarter of its previous number or size.
The doses I suggested for adults could be halved or quartered.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
6.
A quarter is an American or Canadian coin that is worth 25 cents.
I dropped a quarter into the slot of the pay phone.
N-COUNT
7.
A particular quarter of a town is a part of the town where a particular group of people traditionally live or work.
Look for hotels in the French Quarter.
N-COUNT: supp N
8.
To refer to a person or group you may not want to name, you can talk about the reactions or actions from a particular quarter.
Help came from an unexpected quarter...
N-COUNT: usu supp N
9.
The rooms provided for soldiers, sailors, or servants to live in are called their quarters.
Mckinnon went down from deck to the officers' quarters.
N-PLURAL: poss N
10.
If you do something at close quarters, you do it very near to a particular person or thing.
You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters...
PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
Wikipedia
Quarter
A quarter is one-fourth, 1⁄4, 25% or 0.25.
Quarter or quarters may refer to:
Ejemplos de uso de quarter
1. Net exports were up 8 per cent quarter on quarter, the fastest rate of quarter on quarter growth in five years.
2. "The Christmas quarter will be the defining quarter," he said.
3. It rose 1.2 per cent quarter on quarter, compared with a 0.4 per cent growth in the first quarter.
4. The chipmaker also forecast revenue for its current quarter would rise between 2 and 8 per cent quarter on quarter.
5. "Second quarter of last year we had 2,040 people leave us, third quarter 2,040 and the fourth quarter it came down to 1,640 because of seasonalities.