(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.
September
Definition:
(n.) The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(3) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(4) A neck clipping of the aneurysm and an aneurysmectomy were performed on September 27.
(5) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(6) September 11 conspiracies Facebook Twitter Pinterest September 11 conspiracy theories.
(7) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(8) September 12, 2013 Both the Conservatives and Labour are targetting the nation's toilers and strivers.
(9) 5.13pm BST "As I remember September 11, 2012, it was a routine day at our embassy," Hicks begins.
(10) He said the pullout, scaling back an intervention that began at the end of September , is due to start on Tuesday.
(11) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(12) Government borrowing has hit a record high for a September.
(13) On evaluation of the time evolution of the symptoms we found that most patients continued to show them until September each year.
(14) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
(15) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
(16) The Nelson Monument and other sites (0131-226 6558), 2 August–2 September.
(17) Frequency of macroscopic cysts in sheep increased from 0 in April to 14.5% in September.
(18) Seven attempts were made between September and December 1978 at the Gollwitzer-Meier Institute of Cardiology; three dilatations were unsuccessful, two were moderately successful and two highly successful.
(19) Miles will be replaced in September by former hedge fund economist Gertjan Vlieghe .
(20) Between March 1986 and September 1988, 38 patients underwent extended aortic resection (aortic valve, ascending aorta, and arch) for acute type-A aortic dissection with aortic valve insufficiency; deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest were used.