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单词 quarter
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quarternoun

uk/ˈkwɔː.tər/us/ˈkwɑː.t̬ɚ/

quarter noun (FOURTH PART)

A2 [ C ] one of four equal or almost equal parts of something; ¼:

He cut the orange into quarters.
Under a quarter of people questioned said that they were happily married.
My house is situated a mile and three-quarters from here.
a quarter of an hour

15 minutes:

I waited a quarter of an hour and then went home.
I was there three-quarters of an hour.
an hour and three-quarters
a quarter to two, three, etc. A1 also US a quarter of two, three, etc.

15 minutes before two, three, etc.:

It was a quarter to six when I left.
a quarter past two, three, etc. A1 also US a quarter after two, three, etc.

15 minutes after two, three, etc.:

I'll meet you at a quarter past five.

[ C ] one of four periods of time into which a year is divided for financial calculations, such as for profits or taxes:

There was a fall in unemployment in the second quarter of the year.
I get an electricity bill every quarter.

[ C ] one of four periods in a game of American football and other ball sports

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  • The fall in the value of the yen might result in a fractional increase in interest rates of perhaps a quarter of one percent.
  • Road accident victims make up almost a quarter of the hospital's patients.
  • He inherited a quarter of a million pounds on his mother's death.
  • A quarter of the contents of an average family's dustbin is organic matter.
  • A quart is so called because it is a quarter of a gallon.

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Fractions

  • complex fraction
  • deci-
  • decimal place
  • eighteenth
  • eighth
  • fifth
  • fiftieth
  • fraction
  • improper fraction
  • millionth
  • mixed fraction
  • proper fraction
  • quadrant
  • quartile
  • seventh
  • sixteenth
  • sixth
  • thirtieth
  • thousandth
  • three quarters

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Specific periods of time
Days & times of day
American football
Parts & stages of competitions

quarter noun (COIN)

B2 [ C ] in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents

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North American money

  • buck
  • C-note
  • cent
  • dime
  • dollar
  • dollar sign
  • G, g
  • greenback
  • nickel
  • penny
  • smacker
  • toonie
  • two bits

quarter noun (AREA)

C2 [ C ] an area of a town where a particular group of people live or work or where a particular activity happens:

This is the bustling commercial quarter of the city.

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Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities

  • arrondissement
  • backstreets
  • barrio
  • block
  • botanic garden
  • concrete jungle
  • council estate
  • dormitory suburb
  • estate
  • exurb
  • ghetto
  • inner city
  • precinct
  • red-light district
  • slum
  • Speakers' Corner
  • suburbia
  • the outskirts
  • town
  • trading estate

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Towns & regions: environments & localities

quarter noun (PEOPLE)

[ C ] one or more people who provide help, information, or a particular reaction to something but who are not usually named:

Help came from an unexpected quarter.
There is a feeling in certain/some quarters (= some people consider) that a change is needed.

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Groups of people

  • alliance
  • an
  • assemblage
  • band
  • bee
  • corps
  • crop
  • galaxy
  • gang
  • ginger group
  • group
  • grouping
  • stable
  • think tank
  • threesome
  • throng
  • tribe
  • trio
  • triumvirate
  • wing

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People in general

quarter noun (PLACE TO LIVE)

quarters [ plural ]

a room or house that has been provided, especially for servants or soldiers and their families, to live in:

The army's married quarters are just outside the town.

[ C ] Indian English a house or other place to live that has been provided by a company for an employee

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Houses & homes

  • A-frame
  • almshouse
  • apartment
  • apartment building
  • apt
  • flatlet
  • flophouse
  • garden apartment
  • garden flat
  • gated community
  • prefab
  • public housing
  • pueblo
  • Quonset hut
  • ranch house
  • two-up two-down
  • villa
  • walk-up
  • wigwam
  • workhouse

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quarter noun (FORGIVENESS)

[ U ] literary the fact of being kind towards or forgiving an enemy or opponent:

We can expect no quarter from our enemies.
He gave no quarter to anyone that disappointed him.

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Lenient & merciful

  • charitable
  • charitably
  • charity
  • clemency
  • ease
  • ease up/off
  • easy
  • go easy idiom
  • have a heart! idiom
  • heart
  • lenient
  • magnanimous
  • merciful
  • mercy

quarterverb

uk/ˈkwɔː.tər/us/ˈkwɑː.t̬ɚ/

quarter verb (CUT INTO FOUR)

[ T often passive ] to cut something into four parts

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Separating and dividing

  • atomize
  • bifurcate
  • bifurcation
  • bisect
  • borderline
  • branch
  • breakdown
  • disestablish
  • dismember
  • dissociate
  • dissociate yourself from sth
  • disunite
  • divide
  • drift
  • pull sth/sb apart
  • ravel
  • resolve
  • resolve sth into sth
  • rive
  • tear 1

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quarter verb (SOLDIER)

[ T usually passive, + adv/prep ] to send someone, especially soldiers, to live in a place:

The soldiers were quartered with (= they lived with) local people during the war.

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Accommodating people

  • accommodate
  • billet
  • board
  • board and lodging
  • boarding and lodging
  • camp
  • fooding and lodging
  • full board
  • half board
  • house
  • modified American plan
  • put
  • put sb away
  • put sb up
  • rehouse
  • resettle
  • self-catering
  • settle
  • sleep

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