All quarter synonyms
quarΒ·ter
Q q noun quarter
- neighbourhood β Standard spelling of neighborhood.
- neighborhood β the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- sector β Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- area β An area is a particular part of a town, a country, a region, or the world.
- barrio β A barrio is a mainly Spanish-speaking area in an American city.
- district β a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- section β a part that is cut off or separated.
- part β a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- place β a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- point β a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
- region β an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body: a region of the earth.
- bearing β Someone's bearing is the way in which they move or stand.
- direction β the act or an instance of directing.
- division β the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- domain β the territory governed by a single ruler or government; realm.
- ghetto β a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- locality β a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
- location β memory location
- position β condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- precinct β a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- province β an administrative division or unit of a country.
- side β one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- slum β Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- spot β a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- station β a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- territory β any tract of land; region or district.
- turf β a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
- zone β any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
- zoo β Berkeley Yacc
- inner city β an older part of a city, densely populated and usually deteriorating, inhabited mainly by poor, often minority, groups.
- neck of the woods β the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- skid row β an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- stomping ground β a habitual or favorite haunt.
- fourth β next after the third; being the ordinal number for four.
- quadrant β a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90Β°.
- quartile β Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- portion β a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- term β a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- farthing β a former bronze coin of Great Britain, equal to one-fourth of a British penny: withdrawn in 1961.
- quad β quadriplegic: a special ward for quads.
- quartern β a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- semester β (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- span β the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- two bits β twenty-five cents.
- forgiveness β act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
- clemency β If someone is granted clemency, they are punished less severely than they could be.
- compassion β Compassion is a feeling of pity, sympathy, and understanding for someone who is suffering.
- favour β to regard with favor: to favor an enterprise.
- favor β something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- grace β William Russell, 1832β1904, U.S. financier and shipping magnate, born in Ireland: mayor of New York City 1880β88.