Definition of Quarter

Quarter

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 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.

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Quarter Quotations

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
Steven Wright

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
Newt Gingrich

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

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Lou Holtz

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Mercy Otis Warren

I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
Sarah Silverman

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
James Monroe

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
Shaquille O'Neal

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
Lester B. Pearson

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
Oliver North

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Elizabeth Gaskell

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
Pat Sajak

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Eamon de Valera

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.
Josh Holloway

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
Anna Quindlen

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
William Falconer

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
Glenn Danzig

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
Raul Julia

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
John Bright

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
Jenny Shipley

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Doug Coupland

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
Lindsay Lohan

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Calvin Klein

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
John Glenn

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
Floyd Abrams

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Quarter Translations

quarter in Dutch is buurt, wijk, stadswijk
quarter in French is quart, quartier
quarter in German is einquartieren, Viertel, Viertel, Gegend
quarter in Portuguese is quarto
quarter in Spanish is trimestre, barrio

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