quarter
19
8.3
- noun
- /ˈkwɔrtər/
- Specialized
:
parte trasera del zapato
- Strange bedfellows, Stubby and Mr. Hunter, who shared a two-bed room in the workers' quarters.
Examples
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The quarter of the shoe that wraps around the heel is made from high-quality leather.
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With an aching heart, Murasaki watched Genji leave their quarters to go to the Third Princess's room.
Academic text (1992) -
Take him to his quarters.
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Both, I would argue, have provided worse living quarters than were provided earlier.
Academic text (1990) -
Just before dawn, Javier returned to the staff quarters where he shared a room with two other men.
Fiction book (1996) -
How long did you stand outside my quarters before you coughed, Lt.?
Fiction book (1991) -
You will find sunblock in your quarters, as well as an umbrella and a cooler.
Fiction book (1991) -
Simco escorted him to his quarters and joined him inside.
Fiction book (2002) -
There were no special quarters for chieftains such as Sigvatson.
Fiction book (2002) -
Later that evening, we were escorted into our temporary living quarters, an icy room in the Hotel Armenia.
Fiction book (1996)
Idioms
- Offensive
4
9.9
To kill someone by tying limbs to four horses and pulling them apart, or to punish very harshly
- Offensive
1
9.9
To threaten or kill someone by hanging, cutting their body open and dividing it into four parts
Compounds
- Specialized
20
3.2
The time when the Moon looks half lit about one week after the new moon
- Specialized
4
4.1
Half the Moon is lit when it comes after a full moon and before a new moon
4
3.7
A small, strong American horse bred for short, fast races like quarter-mile sprints
1
7.5
Fighting that happens at very short distance between people, often hand-to-hand
- Specialized
1
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
1
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 simply means a 'part' of a thing, so the shoe's quarter is the part that covers the heel and side.