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(sports) Initialism of three-quarter time. [(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.]
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A quarto-sized publication of a play, especially a Shakespearean play, that is considered spurious by virtue of having been copied down during a performance or later reconstructed from memory.
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(historical) A quarter of a Mexican real.
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A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
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(heraldry) A quarter that is itself quartered
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One quarter (1/4, ¼, 0.25).
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The first quarter of a financial year.
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The third quarter of a financial year.
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The fourth and final quarter of a financial year.
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(plural: qintars) A unit of measure, which varies in value depending upon the product measured; for example, a qintar of cotton might be 160 kg of cotton, 50 kg of cotton lint; a qintar of lime, 65 kg.
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Abbreviation of quarto. [(paper) A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).]
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Abbreviation of quarter. [(in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.]
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(US, military, in postal addresses) Abbreviation of quarters used when addressing mail.
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A bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one quarter of an as.
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One quarter of something.
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Of or relating to a quaestor.
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(Ireland) (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).)
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(obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
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(obsolete) Synonym of quartermaster
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A liquid measure a little smaller than a quart
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(now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
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Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.
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(dated) Synonym of quarter to; fifteen minutes before a certain hour.
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(sports) The interval between the first and second quarters of a sports match.
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(Britain) Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
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(time) quarter of an hour; period of time equal to 15 minutes; a quarter.
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(electricity) Differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
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Alternative form of quarter time. [(sports) The interval between the first and second quarters of a sports match.]
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A quarterly payment or allowance, tax, pension, or wage paid or received.
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(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.
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An inhabitant of a particular quarter.
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(business) generation of quarterly data based on figures from periods of another size
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(US) a county court held every three months.
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(archaic) A quarter part; one fourth.
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(obsolete) A quarter; especially, a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.
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A quarter or district of an urban settlement in France.
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Obsolete form of quarterage. [A quarterly payment or allowance, tax, pension, or wage paid or received.]
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Alternative form of quatre quart [French pound cake]
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Alternative form of quatre quart [French pound cake]
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Alternative form of quattrino (“old Italian coin”) [(historical) A former very small Italian coin.]
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(transitive) To divide into quarters again.
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(stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
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(obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square.
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(obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
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(military) A mutually supportive infantry formation made up of pikemen, swordsmen and arquebusiers or musketeers.
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(archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.
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(economics) Characterized by being a third best in the below sense.
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(US) A reduced-rate mail service for printed matter.
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(UK, law) One third of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, paid to the lord as a heriot.
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Alternative form of three-quarter time. [(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.]
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Alternative form of three-quarter time. [(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.]
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Alternative form of three-quarter time. [(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.]
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(idiomatic) Three square meals, understood as a complete, satisfying, and nourishing regimen of food taken over the course of a day.
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Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).
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of three fourths of the usual dimension
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(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.
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Alternative form of three-quarter time. [(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.]
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Alternative form of three-quarter time. [(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.]
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Alternative spelling of three-quarter [(rugby) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)]
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A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter.
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The consecutive presentation of three episodes of a television series.
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measuring two inches by four inches
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Abbreviation of quarter-hard (reference to alloy strength, as in between dead soft and half hard).
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