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quartering
  1. The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
  2. The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
  3. (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
  4. (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
  5. (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
  6. Synonyms:
quart
  1. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
  2. (card game) Four successive cards of the same suit.
  3. (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “We armed ourselves with axes, crowbars, jemmies, metal poles, sledge hammers, a quart of paraffin and box of matches.”
      “Or the same articles may be treated with a quart of distilled vinegar, to form the compound acetous tincture.”
      “In the workshop, for years, he has made saddle dressing, quart pots, cow bells, spurs, leather goods, and other traditional bush products.”
quarterage
  1. A quarterly payment or allowance, tax, pension, or wage paid or received.
  2. The provision of quarters (as for troops), or the cost of it.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The Schoolmaster receives no quarterage from the children of the tenants of Knockaloe.”
      “At noon home to dinner, where my uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage.”
      “The quarterage in this Company is paid on the quantity of malt consumed by its members.”
quartile
  1. (statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
  2. (statistics) Any one of the four groups so divided.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Every measurement was first divided by its plate's quartile and then multiplied by the average quartile of the respective experiment.”
      “Dorotheus refers to the trine as an aspect of much love and to the quartile as one of a medium amount of love.”
      “Ogilvie et al. divided trials into quartile bins based on the distribution of reaction time latencies.”
quarter
  1. Any fourth of something, particularly:
    1. A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
    2. (now chiefly financial) A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season.
    3. (historical) The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for measures of wine, ale, and grain
    4. (historical) The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade
    5. (historical) The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year.
    6. (heraldry) A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
    7. (basketball) A period into which a game is divided. (usually 8, 10 or 12 minutes according to the rules).
    8. quarterfinal
  2. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly:
    1. A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole.
    2. (plural) A living place, from which:
    3. The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
    4. (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He entered the ornate building only to find another open area, this one about a quarter of the size of the area outside.”
      “He threw me a quarter and told me to get lost.”
      “Now that the north is fast becoming the frappuccino quarter of the city, it may yet thrive again.”
quarterization
  1. division into quarters
  2. (business) generation of quarterly data based on figures from periods of another size
quarteron
  1. Obsolete form of quadroon.
  2. (obsolete) A quarter; especially, a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.
quartern
  1. (archaic) A quarter part; one fourth.
  2. (archaic) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “If you'll kindly order a quartern of gin in a pint glass for me, I'll fill it up and be quite content all the evening.”
      “Mr Tappertit looked immensely big at a quartern loaf on the table, and breathed hard.”
      “In all these houses gin, moreover, was sold at a penny the quartern.”
quarterer
  1. (historical) One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.
quartier
  1. A quarter or district of an urban settlement in France.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There were shades last week of Paris 1998 as the kilted ones turned Le Marais, with its various Scottish pubs, into a Caledonian quartier.”
      “I see it as an excuse to leave the confines of my quartier and try other bakeries.”
      “Until the 1950s, many women would go hatless in their own quartier, something they would not do if they were to go beyond its informal limits.”
quarterly
quartridge
  1. Obsolete form of quarterage.
quarters
  1. plural of quarter.
  2. (plural only, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
  3. (by extension) The place where someone or something lives
  4. A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
  5. Quarterfinals.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Mckinnon went down from the deck to the officers' quarters.”
      “The living quarters and studio spaces are spread around these two main parts.”
      “A lot of this spend, said IDC, will be on 3G networks, which have been dismissed in some quarters as expensive white elephants.”
quarterages
quarterings
  1. plural of quartering
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “At Fonthill the crest and the thirty-six quarterings of Beckford's full coat-of-arms were blazoned on the carpets and painted glass windows.”
      “Such laxness contrasts with, for example, the Bavarian Order of St George, which still demands 16 quarterings of nobility.”
      “Staunchly imperialist, he is a living manifestation of quintessential Englishness, a living descendant of people with blue blood, noble quarterings, and the right school tie.”
quartridges
  1. plural of quartridge
quarterers
  1. plural of quarterer
quarterons
  1. plural of quarteron
quarterlies
quarterns
quartiles
  1. plural of quartile
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Here we would like to estimate the quartiles of the distribution of age at leaving home, within categories of covariates.”
      “To increase the power of the analysis, the entire sample space is split into upper and lower quartiles.”
      “The initial categories were created by stratifying lesions into quartiles according to size.”
quartiers
quarts
  1. plural of quart
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I myself have a small vegetable garden and do my canning without assistance, three or four quarts at a time.”
      “Milk products are packaged 16 quarts or four gallons to a case and automatic stackers stack them six high.”
      “In the main filling room, gallons, halt gallons, pints, quarts and half-pints are filled.”
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