quarter
Definition
- n. a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- n. (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- n. a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
- n. one of four periods into which the school year is divided
Word forms
- Past participle
- quartered
- Present participle
- quartering
- Past tense
- quartered
- Third person singular
- quarters
Example sentences
n.
The project will be completed in the last quarter of the year.
vt.
Please quarter the apples before adding them to the pie.
vi.
The soldiers will quarter in the nearby town during the training.