Quarter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.

   “I ate a quarter of the pizza.”

2. isim A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.

   “One of these is 1 Hen. V, cap. 10, defining the quarter of corn to be eight struck bushels, and putting fines on purveyors who take more.”

3. isim A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
4. isim A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
5. isim A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.

   “And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght, he cam unto them, walkinge apon the see [...].”

6. isim A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.

   “The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.”

7. isim A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.

   “An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.”

8. isim A fourth part of a hundredweight.
9. isim A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
10. isim A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
11. isim One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
12. isim A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
13. isim Place or position.

    “She could not suggest in what quarter of London the shop in question was likely to be as the deceased was accustomed to go about a good deal.”

14. isim A region or place.

    “I am to haste, / And all who under me thir Banners wave, / Homeward with flying march where we possess / The Quarters of the North […].”

15. isim Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
16. isim A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
17. isim One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
18. isim A topic or area of endeavour.
19. isim The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.

    “I was one morning walking the deck, when Rogers, whose watch it was, sitting upon the quarter, called to me in his usual style, ‘Come here, Bill.’”

20. isim The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.

    “[A]t last she kicked right over the carriage pole and fell down, after giving me a severe blow on my near quarter.”

21. sıfat Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
22. sıfat Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%).

    “a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound”

23. sıfat Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.

    “A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.”

24. fiil To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
25. fiil To provide housing for (usually military personnel or equipment).

    “Quarter the horses in the third stable.”

26. fiil To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
27. fiil To quartersaw.

    “But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber.”

28. fiil To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
29. fiil To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
30. fiil To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.