Quarter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUARTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to divide into four parts
• divide into four equal or corresponding parts
• cut (the body of an executed person) into four parts
• cut (a log) into quarters, and these into planks so as to show the grain well.
• be stationed or lodged in a specified place
• impose someone on (another person) as a lodger
• range over or traverse (an area) in every direction
• move at an angle; go in a diagonal or zigzag direction
• divide (a shield) into four or more parts by vertical and horizontal lines.
• A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.
• A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud.
• 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.
• Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.
• A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural.
• Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural.
• A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters.
• 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.
• Friendship; amity; concord.
• To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
• 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.
• provide housing for (military personnel)
• pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
• divide into quarters
• divide by four; divide into quarters
• divide into four equal parts
• 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
NOUN:
• each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided
• a period of fifteen minutes or a point of time marking the transition from one fifteen-minute period to the next
• a coin representing 25 cents, a quarter of a US or Canadian dollar.
• one fourth of a lunar month.
• (in basketball, American football, and Australian Rules) each of four equal periods into which a game is divided
• one of four terms into which a school or university year may be divided.
• 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 25lb).
• a grain measure equivalent to 8 bushels.
• the haunches or hindquarters of a horse
• a part of a town or city having a particular character or use
• 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
• either side of a ship aft of the beam
• rooms or lodgings, especially those allocated to people in military or domestic service
• 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.
• one of four equal parts of something
• 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.
• The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds.
• 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.
• The fourth part of the moon\'s period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full.
• 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.
• That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp.
• That part on either side of a horse\'s hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin.
• A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter.
• The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.
• 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.
• 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.
• a district of a city having some distinguishing character
• (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
• a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
• one of four periods into which the school year is divided
• a fourth part of a year; three months
• one of the four major division of the compass
• a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
• a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
• a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
• an unspecified person
• the rear part of a ship
• piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
• clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
• 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
• each of the four parts into which an animal's or bird's carcass may be divided, each including a leg or wing.
• pity or mercy shown towards an enemy or opponent who is in one's power
ADJECTIVE:
• being or consisting of one of four equal parts
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to divide into four equal parts

Words related to QUARTER

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Words that contain QUARTER

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How to use QUARTER in a sentence

• The sea will not show its treasures in a quarter of an hour, or be made a sight of for a quarter of a dollar.
• For a quarter of an hour Mike was comparatively quiet.
• At the entrance to this peculiar, and, indeed, disreputable quarter, there is a house with a peculiar history.
• One of the favorite holiday resorts of Bessie and Rudolph was a lovely spot in the forest, not a quarter of a mile from the house.
• At this time there were two large vessels lying at anchor within a quarter of a mile of the shore, and I was informed there were sometimes as many as twelve or thirteen.
• As she shrank, the broad moon in its third quarter crept into view over the rim of her disc.
• Then what hindrance? There, at quarter to five that strange afternoon, Joe felt that he had reached the heights of success, and he saw no obstacle to long years of solid advance.
• A quarter, or maybe a half, hour dragged by on leaden feet.
• Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour.
• After much winding the ravine terminated in a wide pocket, a quarter of a mile inland.
• For a quarter of a century the courts have tried to make this law work.
• From a quarter of a pint to half a pint is the utmost that ought to be mixed with a gallon of any other perfume.
• These were carried for about a quarter of a mile, and then put down for a rest, and the men went back to the camp.
• The information he obtained about her in the quarter was rather contradictory.
• For a long generation now the churches have been subject to searching criticism from almost every quarter.
• We gazed eagerly in the quarter thus indicated, but our low position prevented us for some time from seeing anything.
• The development of economic study in our country during the last quarter of the last century is hardly less remarkable than that of mathematical science.
• The encampment of the Anahuans was a quarter of a mile from the town.
• But at a quarter to ten precisely the door opened again and the great man himself stood on the threshold.
• He, in turn, was undergoing assaults from every quarter.
• As each township is surveyed one quarter section of 640 acres is set apart for common schools.
• In less than a quarter of an hour he appreciated with painful clearness that his entire conception of existence had been wrong, and that he must begin again at the beginning.
• Once school let out for the day, a quarter of a thousand members of the student body went off, full of glee, to spread the news of the joke.
• That such an opinion should prevail among the mass, was natural enough, but I was not prepared to hear it from so high a quarter.
• She then wore round, and ranged up on the weather quarter of the Indiaman.
• Another quarter of a mile was covered when they came to a patch of spruces.
• He is the Minister whom we have had before our eyes for the last quarter of a century.

Similar words containing QUART without suffix er

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