quarter
/ˈk(w)oɹ.tɚ/ nom A1En français : quart, quartier, trimestre
- Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part. · I ate a quarter of the pizza.
- A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- A fourth part of a hundredweight.
Pluriel quarters
Dans la bibliothèque
“Over head and ears; but, unless I am much mistaken, there will be a storm in that quarter.”
I brought down this suit of clothes, and in a quarter of an hour Barker and I had put my dressing gown on him and he lay as you found him.
I receive an anonymous communication from a quarter which I know to be important, warning me that danger threatens a certain person.
Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercédès will have become Madame Dantès.”
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