(n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
(n.) A basket.
(n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
(n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(2) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
(3) Harry also spoke about walking behind his mother’s coffin as a 12-year-old and said no child “should be asked to do that under any circumstances”.
(4) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(5) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
(6) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
(7) About 60 coffins were expected, although the number was not immediately confirmed.
(8) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People carry the coffin of Giulio Regeni during his funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, on 12 February.
(10) Another man, placed in what he called "the electric coffin" – in which a detainee is forced to lie inside a wooden box, across two metal plates through which they pass a current.
(11) "Each decade," he continued, "we shiftily declare we have buried class; each decade the coffin stays empty."
(12) The board’s chief executive, Peter Deague, told Guardian Australia that meant they could cater to anyone who weighed up to 250kg, as a coffin for a person of that size usually weighed about 100kg.
(13) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
(14) He was still able to have a good conversation with me.” The PSNI is also investigating the firing of shots by the New IRA over the coffin of a veteran west Belfast republican on Sunday night.
(15) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
(16) The final nail in social security's coffin came with the demise of the Department of Social Security in 2001 and its replacement by the Department for Work and Pensions.
(17) In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe.
(18) If you want a coffin, alternatives to the regular chipboard, veneered box are now mainstream and in all good undertakers’ catalogues.
(19) This study ought to be the final nail in the coffin of techno-libertarianism.
(20) There is no formation of callus at the site of the fracture, but only a firm formation of fibrous tissue which does not bother the horse unless the fragments are too much dislocated giving rise to a greater destruction of the coffin joint.
Quarter
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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(2) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(3) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(5) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
(6) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(7) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(8) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(9) In 1987, The Milbank Quarterly published two special supplements on the health status of blacks in the United States.
(10) Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than Protestant rates (1.64 vs. 1.91).
(11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(12) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
(13) In this work, 139 intra-cranial aneurysms diagnosed at the Egas Moniz Hospital were studied, from 1980 to the first quarter of 1992.
(14) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(15) "Statistics released today show that three-quarters of people who apply for employment and support allowance are continuing to be found either fit for work or stop their claim before completing their medical assessment," said the Department for Work and Pensions.
(16) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
(17) -- Three quarters of all cases had been irradiated before.
(18) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(19) The availability of loans for small businesses, however, only increased slightly in the fourth quarter of last year and banks noted a decline in demand from these quarters.
(20) Healthy, midlactation cows were given intramammary infusions of 10 micrograms of endotoxin in two homolateral quarters.