Betekenis van quarter In het Nederlands

• 0 one of four equal or almost equal parts of something; ¼:

  • He cut the orange into quarters.

  • Under a quarter of people questioned said that they were happily married.

  • My house is situated a mile and three-quarters from here.

  • I waited a quarter of an hour and then went home.

  • I was there three-quarters of an hour.

  • an hour and three-quarters

  • It was a quarter to six when I left.

  • I'll meet you at a quarter past five.

  • There was a fall in unemployment in the second quarter of the year.

  • I get an electricity bill every quarter.

• 1 in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents

• 2 an area of a town where a particular group of people live or work or where a particular activity happens:

  • This is the bustling commercial quarter of the city.

• 3 one or more people who provide help, information, or a particular reaction to something but who are not usually named:

  • Help came from an unexpected quarter.

  • There is a feeling in certain/some quarters (= some people consider) that a change is needed.

• 4 a room or house that has been provided, especially for servants or soldiers and their families, to live in:

  • The army's married quarters are just outside the town.

• 5 the fact of being kind towards or forgiving an enemy or opponent:

  • We can expect no quarter from our enemies.

  • He gave no quarter to anyone that disappointed him.

• 6 to cut something into four parts

• 7 to send someone, especially soldiers, to live in a place:

  • The soldiers were quartered with (= they lived with) local people during the war.

• 8 one of four equal or almost equal parts of something:

  • My house is one and three-quarter miles/a mile and three-quarters from here.

  • It’s a quarter to three.

  • I’ll meet you at a quarter past five.

  • Many universities divide the school year into quarters rather than two semesters.

• 9 in the US and Canada, a coin worth 25 cents

• 10 an area of a city or place having a special history or character:

  • We stayed in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

• 11 to divide something into four pieces of approximately the same size:

  • Peel and quarter the tomatoes and put them in the stew.

• 12 a period of three months in a company's financial year:

  • Sales have climbed significantly each quarter.

  • Unquoted companies accounted for 23% of assets at the end of the last quarter.

  • first/second/third quarter The fall was 8% in the first quarter and only 2% in the second.