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quarter
- IPA[ˈk(w)ɔːtə]
英式
- each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided；a period of three months regarded as one fourth of a year, used especially in reference to financial transactions such as the payment of bills or a company's earnings
- divide into four equal or corresponding parts；cut (the body of an executed person) into four parts
verb: quarter, 3rd person present: quarters, gerund or present participle: quartering, past tense: quartered, past participle: quartered
noun: quarter, plural noun: quarters
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名詞
- 1. each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided she cut each apple into quarters a page and a quarter
- ▪ a period of three months regarded as one fourth of a year, used especially in reference to financial transactions such as the payment of bills or a company's earnings the first quarter of the fiscal year
- ▪ a period of fifteen minutes or a point of time marking the transition from one fifteen-minute period to the next he sat with his pint until a quarter past nine
- ▪ a coin representing 25 cents, a quarter of a US or Canadian dollar.
- ▪ each of the four parts into which an animal's or bird's carcass may be divided, each including a leg or wing.
- ▪ one fourth of a lunar month.
- ▪ (in basketball, American football, and Australian Rules) each of four equal periods into which a game is divided there were four scores in the opening quarter
- ▪ US one of four terms into which a school or university year may be divided.
- 2. one fourth of a pound weight (avoirdupois, equal to 4 ounces).
- ▪ one fourth of a hundredweight (in the UK 28 lb or in the US 25 lb).
- ▪ British a grain measure equivalent to 8 bushels.
- 3. the haunches or hindquarters of a horse they have strong, muscular quarters
- 4. a part of a town or city having a particular character or use a beautiful port city with a fascinating medieval quarter 同義詞
- 5. the direction of one of the points of the compass, especially as a direction from which the wind blows.
- ▪ a particular but unspecified person, group of people, or area we have just had help from an unexpected quarter 同義詞
- ▪ either side of a ship aft of the beam he trained his glasses over the starboard quarter
- 6. rooms or lodgings, especially those allocated to people in military or domestic service they lived in RAF married quarters 同義詞
- 7. pity or mercy shown towards an enemy or opponent who is in one's power the riot squad gave no quarter 同義詞
- 8. each of four or more roughly equal divisions of a shield separated by vertical and horizontal lines.
- ▪ a square charge which covers the top left (dexter chief) quarter of the field.
動詞
- 1. divide into four equal or corresponding parts peel and quarter the bananas
- ▪ historical cut (the body of an executed person) into four parts the plotters were hanged, drawn, and quartered
- ▪ cut (a log) into quarters, and these into planks so as to show the grain well.
- 2. be stationed or lodged in a specified place many were quartered in tents 同義詞
- ▪ impose someone on (another person) as a lodger you would have had her quartered on you forever
- 3. range over or traverse (an area) in every direction we watched a pair of kingfishers quartering the river looking for minnows 同義詞
- ▪ move at an angle; go in a diagonal or zigzag direction his young dog quartered back and forth in quick turns
- 4. display (different coats of arms) in quarters of a shield, especially to show arms inherited from heiresses who have married into the bearer's family Edward III quartered the French royal arms with his own
- ▪ divide (a shield) into four or more parts by vertical and horizontal lines.
- consisting of three quarters of something in terms of size, length, time, etc.: a three-quarter length cashmere coat
- each of four players in a team positioned across the field behind the half backs: he was playing three-quarter for Blackheath
- to a size or extent of three quarters: three-quarter-grown rabbits
Oxford Dictionary
- saw (a log) radially into quarters and then into boards: a piece of quarter-sawn oak
Oxford Dictionary
- a period of fifteen minutes.
Oxford Dictionary
- a period of fifteen minutes.
Oxford American Dictionary
- a photographic plate measuring 31/4 × 41/4 inches (c. 8.3 × 10.8 cm).
Oxford Dictionary
- saw (a log) radially into quarters and then into boards: we quarter-saw the logs at our own mill quarter-sawn timber from the stand of white ash
Oxford American Dictionary
- consisting of three quarters of something (used especially with reference to size or length): a three-quarter length cashmere coat
Oxford American Dictionary
- the district of Paris on the south bank of the Seine where the main university buildings are ... the opera is set in the Latin Quarter in Paris in 1830
Oxford Dictionary
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- each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided: she cut each apple into quarters a page and a quarter
- divide into four equal or corresponding parts: peel and quarter the bananas
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