to quarter
10
2.1
- verb
- /ˈkwɔrtər/
- As she tipped quartered tomatoes, olive oil, onions, and garlic
- quarter an onion
- peel and quarter
- quarter tomatoes
Examples
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Stuff the turkey with whatever you want (or stick in a quartered onion and an orange, sliced).
Blog text (8) -
Ma quarters an apple and passes it to Mrs. Mittelman.
Fiction book (1995) -
In one pot, I braised quartered turnips in water until tender.
Academic text (2004) -
With mindless meticulousness, she quartered the arm-long tubers and strung them on the rack.
Fiction book (1994) -
After washing the apples, she decided to quarter them for the pie filling.
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To make the recipe easier, you should quarter the tomatoes before adding them to the salad.
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He quartered the pumpkin before roasting it to ensure even cooking.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
5
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
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
5
3.7
A small, strong American horse bred for short, fast races like quarter-mile sprints
- Specialized
3
4.1
Half the Moon is lit when it comes after a full moon and before a new moon
- Specialized
2
3.2
The time when the Moon looks half lit about one week after the new moon
- Specialized
1
8.7
A musical interval half the size of a semitone used in some modern and non-Western music
1
7.5
Fighting that happens at very short distance between people, often hand-to-hand
- Archaic
1
9.9
A local court in England and Wales that met four times a year to try crimes before 1972
- Specialized
1
7.2
A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Specialized
1
9.9
A vertical crack on the inside of a horse's front hoof that can make the horse limp
- Archaic
A unit of length equal to 10,000 km, one fourth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator
- 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
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Etymology
Quarter comes from Latin quartus 'fourth', so the verb to quarter means 'to divide into four parts', which is why cooks sometimes quarter an apple or chicken.