Meaning of "quarter" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD QUARTER

From Old French quartier, from Latin quartārius a fourth part, from quartus fourth.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF QUARTER

quarter  [ˈkwɔːtə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUARTER

Quarter is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb quarter in English.

WHAT DOES QUARTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quarter

A quarter is one fourth, 1⁄4, 25% or 0.25 and may refer to: ▪ Quarter, a section or area, usually of a town ▪ Quarter, valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar ▪ Quarter, valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar ▪ Quarter of a calendar year ▪ Academic quarter, a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks ▪ Academic quarter, term used by universities in various European countries for the 15 minutes between the defined start time for a lecture and the actual time it will start ▪ Fiscal quarter, one fourth of a fiscal year ▪ Quarter, imperial units equal to: ▪ 4 ounces, or one fourth of 1 pound ▪ 28 pounds, or one fourth of 1 long hundredweight...

Definition of quarter in the English dictionary

The first definition of quarter in the dictionary is one of four equal or nearly equal parts of an object, quantity, amount, etc. Other definition of quarter is Also called: fourth. the fraction equal to one divided by four. Quarter is also a quarter of a dollar; 25-cent piece.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO QUARTER

PRESENT

Present

I quarter

you quarter

he/she/it quarters

we quarter

you quarter

they quarter

Present continuous

I am quartering

you are quartering

he/she/it is quartering

we are quartering

you are quartering

they are quartering

Present perfect

I have quartered

you have quartered

he/she/it has quartered

we have quartered

you have quartered

they have quartered

Present perfect continuous

I have been quartering

you have been quartering

he/she/it has been quartering

we have been quartering

you have been quartering

they have been quartering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I quartered

you quartered

he/she/it quartered

we quartered

you quartered

they quartered

Past continuous

I was quartering

you were quartering

he/she/it was quartering

we were quartering

you were quartering

they were quartering

Past perfect

I had quartered

you had quartered

he/she/it had quartered

we had quartered

you had quartered

they had quartered

Past perfect continuous

I had been quartering

you had been quartering

he/she/it had been quartering

we had been quartering

you had been quartering

they had been quartering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will quarter

you will quarter

he/she/it will quarter

we will quarter

you will quarter

they will quarter

Future continuous

I will be quartering

you will be quartering

he/she/it will be quartering

we will be quartering

you will be quartering

they will be quartering

Future perfect

I will have quartered

you will have quartered

he/she/it will have quartered

we will have quartered

you will have quartered

they will have quartered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been quartering

you will have been quartering

he/she/it will have been quartering

we will have been quartering

you will have been quartering

they will have been quartering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would quarter

you would quarter

he/she/it would quarter

we would quarter

you would quarter

they would quarter

Conditional continuous

I would be quartering

you would be quartering

he/she/it would be quartering

we would be quartering

you would be quartering

they would be quartering

Conditional perfect

I would have quarter

you would have quarter

he/she/it would have quarter

we would have quarter

you would have quarter

they would have quarter

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been quartering

you would have been quartering

he/she/it would have been quartering

we would have been quartering

you would have been quartering

they would have been quartering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you quarter
we let´s quarter
you quarter

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to quarter

Past participle

quartered

Present Participle

quartering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «QUARTER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «quarter» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of quarter

accommodate · area · billet · board · charity · clemency · colony · compassion · direction · district · favour · forbearance · house · indulgence · install · kindness · leniency · lenity · locality · location · lodge · mercy · neighbourhood · part · person · pity · place · point · position · post · province · put up · region · side · source · spot · station · sympathy · territory · tolerance · zone

TRANSLATION OF QUARTER

Find out the translation of quarter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of quarter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quarter» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 四分之一
• Translator English - Spanish: cuarto
• English: quarter
• Translator English - Hindi: तिमाही
• Translator English - Arabic: رُبْع
• Translator English - Russian: четверть
• Translator English - Portuguese: quarta parte
• Translator English - Bengali: সিকি
• Translator English - French: quart
• Translator English - Malay: Suku tahun
• Translator English - German: Viertel
• Translator English - Japanese: 4分の1
• Translator English - Korean: 4분의 1
• Translator English - Javanese: Saben wulan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: một phần tư
• Translator English - Tamil: காலாண்டில்
• Translator English - Marathi: तिमाहीत
• Translator English - Turkish: çeyrek
• Translator English - Italian: trimestre
• Translator English - Polish: ćwierć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: чверть
• Translator English - Romanian: sfert
• Translator English - Greek: τέταρτο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kwartaal
• Translator English - Swedish: kvart
• Translator English - Norwegian: fjerdedel

10 QUOTES WITH «QUARTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word quarter.

1

Robert Asprin

The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

2

Robert Ballard

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

3

Carol Bartz

When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.

4

Cyrano de Bergerac

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

5

Milton Berle

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

6

Leonard Boswell

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

7

Hjalmar Branting

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

8

Italo Calvino

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

9

John Ciardi

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

10

Joe Cocker

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUARTER»

Discover the use of quarter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quarter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Foundation Sires of the American Quarter Horse

Here for the first time is a digest of known information about the stallions whose descendants appear in the early volumes of the American Quarter Horse Association studbook.

Robert M. Denhardt, 1997

20 Something, 20 Everything: A Quarter-life Woman's Guide to ...

When author Christine Hassler experienced what she calls the "twenties triangle", she found that she was not alone.

Christine Hassler, 2010

Quarter Horses: A Story of Two Centuries

A history of the Quarter Horse in England and America, describing the most famous animals and breeders, and the emergence of the American Quarter Horse Association

Robert Moorman Denhardt, 1967

Fifth Quarter

Planning to assassinate the evil Gyhard, siblings Bannon and Vree of the Havalkeen army face a terrible choice when Gyhard steals Bannon's body and forces the pair to coexist in Vree's body. Original.

Tanya Huff, 1995

A Quarter Century of Unix

Based on interviews with the key software engineers who invented and built the powerful UNIX operating system, this book provides unique insight into the operating system that dominates the modern computing environment.

Peter H. Salus, 1994

State Quarter 1999-2009 Collector's Folder: District of ...

The State Quarter program has made coin collecting cool.

Warman's, 2009

Red Quarter Moon: A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin

Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s.

Anne Konrad, 2012

American Quarter Horses Are My Favorite!

Do you like horses?

Elaine Landau, 2012

ONE QUARTER OF HUMANITY

One Quarter of Humanity presents evidence about historical and contemporary Chinese population behavior that overturns much of the received wisdom about the differences between China and the West.

James Z. LEE, Wang Feng, 2001

A Quarter-century of Normalization and Social Role ...

This book is unique in tracing the evolution and impact of Normalization and SRV over the last quarter-century, with many of the chapter authors personally involved in a still-evolving international movement.

Robert John Flynn, Raymond A. Lemay, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUARTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term quarter is used in the context of the following news items.

Netflix streams its way to another blockbuster quarter, share price …

But the amount fell well short of the 16 cents EPS (post-split) the company posted in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue for Q2 was $1.481 billion which ... «Fortune, Jul 15»

Delta announces $1 billion quarterly profit

Delta Air Lines reported $1 billion in adjusted net income, or $1.27 per share, during the second quarter, the company announced Wednesday. That profit ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»

US First-Quarter GDP Slowdown Less Severe than Previously …

The economy failed to grow in the first quarter “but activity is bubbling beneath the surface,” said Gregory Daco economist at Oxford Economics. “Faster wage ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»

US Economy Contracted 0.7% in First Quarter

The 0.7 percent annual rate of decline in economic output in the first quarter of 2015 was a reversal of the initial 0.2 percent advance for the period reported last ... «New York Times, May 15»

Two shot in French Quarter shooting, police still searching for shooter

NEW ORLEANS —The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a double shooting in the French Quarter. Related. Public meeting scheduled Tuesday in. «WDSU New Orleans, May 15»

Trade deficit hammers UK growth in first quarter

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded by 0.3pc in the first quarter, from growth of 0.6pc in the final three months of 2014. This was ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»

German Economy Stumbles In First Quarter

Germany recorded GDP growth in the first quarter of just 0.3%, coming in well below the expectations of economists, while Greece has returned to recession. «Sky News, May 15»

The End of an Era? Brangelina List French Quarter Home

Our days of Brad Pitt biking through the French Quarter and tossing beers to fellow high-profile NOLAphile Matthew McConaughey across balconies might soon ... «Curbed NOLA, May 15»

US Productivity Falls 1.9% in First Quarter

That marked the second consecutive quarter productivity has declined, something that has happened only three times in the past quarter century. The latest dip ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»

US businesses say second quarter looks promising

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses expect their sales will rebound in the next three months after a sluggish first quarter, and they also plan to boost hiring and pay, ... «CBS News, Apr 15»