quarter
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- noun
- /ˈkwɔrtər/
- Archaic
:
quarter (unidad de peso histórica, ≈11–13 kg)
- During the historical period, merchants would often sell goods by the quarter to ensure fair trade.
Examples
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In the past, a quarter was used as a unit of weight for measuring heavy items like grain.
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In the general election of 1918, Sinn Fein, the political party that rejects Home Rule in favour of separatist republicanism, wins a landslide victory, gaining almost three quarters of the seats.
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The bronchoscopy revealed a mass about the size of a quarter located in your lower right lung.
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Students rotated between health and PE every quarter, having class for 42 minutes on a daily basis.
Academic text (2015) -
Specifically, 92% of students were employed during the third quarter of 1991, and their median earnings were $3,830.
Academic text (1997) -
According to OPEC statistics, Venezuela currently produces only three-quarters of its quota of 3.3 million barrels a day.
Academic text (2008) -
In old British markets, prices were sometimes stated per quarter for bulk agricultural products.
Idioms
- Offensive
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9.9
To kill someone by tying limbs to four horses and pulling them apart, or to punish very harshly
- Offensive
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9.9
To threaten or kill someone by hanging, cutting their body open and dividing it into four parts
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.2
The time when the Moon looks half lit about one week after the new moon
- Specialized
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4.1
Half the Moon is lit when it comes after a full moon and before a new moon
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3.7
A small, strong American horse bred for short, fast races like quarter-mile sprints
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7.5
Fighting that happens at very short distance between people, often hand-to-hand
- Specialized
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9.9
A vertical crack on the inside of a horse's front hoof that can make the horse limp
- Specialized
1
7.2
A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Archaic
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9.9
A local court in England and Wales that met four times a year to try crimes before 1972
- Archaic
A unit of length equal to 10,000 km, one fourth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator
- Specialized
A musical interval half the size of a semitone used in some modern and non-Western music
- US
A woody vine from the southern United States with bright flowers and a cross-shaped stem when cut
- Specialized
A book with its spine and most of the sides covered in a different material like leather
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quarter comes from Latin quartus 'fourth' and was used as a unit because it was 'one fourth' of a larger weight, which is why it appears as an old measure.