close-quarter fighting | hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters |
quarter | clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent, he surrendered but asked for quarter |
quarter horse | a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia |
ovolo thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
quarter | piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp |
quarter plate | a photographic plate measuring . inches by . inches |
stern after part quarter poop tail | the rear part of a ship |
three-quarter binding | the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover |
quarter tone quarter-tone | half of a semitone |
quarter note crotchet | a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note |
quarter rest | a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest |
lamb's-quarter pigweed wild spinach | leaves collected from the wild |
quarter sessions | a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions |
quarter | a district of a city having some distinguishing character, the Latin Quarter |
Left Bank Latin Quarter | the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine, a center of artistic and student life |
quarter | an unspecified person, he dropped a word in the right quarter |
cross vine trumpet flower quartervine quarter-vine Bignonia capreolata | woody flowering vine of southern United States, stems show a cross in transverse section |
quarter stock | stock with a par value of $ share |
quarter | a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar, he fed four quarters into the slot machine |
quarter section | a land unit equal to a quarter of a section ( acres) and measuring mile on a side |
quarter | a quarter of a hundredweight ( pounds) |
quarter mile yards | a unit of length equal to a quarter of mile |
quarter pound | ounces avoirdupois |
quarter | a quarter of a hundredweight ( pounds) |
one-fourth fourth one-quarter quarter fourth part twenty-five percent quartern | one of four equal parts, a quarter of a pound |
quarter | one of the four major division of the compass, the wind is coming from that quarter |
quarter crack | a crack on the inside of a horse's forefoot |
quarter day | a Christian holy day, one of four specified days when certain payments are due |
quarter | a fourth part of a year, three months, unemployment fell during the last quarter |
first quarter | the first fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth |
last quarter | the last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth |
quarter | one of four periods into which the school year is divided, the fall quarter ends at Christmas |
quarter-hour minutes | a quarter of an hour |
quarter | a unit of time equal to minutes or a quarter of an hour, it's a quarter til , a quarter after o'clock |
quarter | (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided, both teams scored in the first quarter |
quarter | divide by four, divide into quarters |
quarter | divide into quarters, quarter an apple |
draw d quarter draw and quarter | pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him, in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes |
quarter billet canton | provide housing for (military personnel) |
quarterly every quarter | in three month intervals, interest is compounded quarterly |