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Общая лексика: четыре и три четвертиУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > four and three quarters
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1. n четыре года2. n четыре часаthe four seas — четыре моря, омывающие Великобританию
3. n четвёрка, четырёхвесельная лодкаBig Four — «Большая четвёрка»
4. n спорт. команда четвёрки5. n спорт. проф. соревнования, гонки четвёрок6. n четырёхпроцентные акции или ценные бумаги7. n четвёрка лошадейa coach and four — экипаж, запряжённый четвёркой
8. n спорт. четвёрка, четыре очкаfour eyes requirement — требование "четырех глаз"
9. num четыре, четвёртыйwithin the four corners of a document — в пределах, указанных документом
Синонимический ряд:quartet (noun) foursome; quartet; quartette; quartetto; quaternion; quatuor; tetrad -
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1. [ænd] nзнак &2. [ænd (полная форма); ənd,ən,nd (редуцированные формы)]cjIapples, pears and plums - яблоки, груши и сливы
2. 1) из названий, преим. предметов питания и быта, образует сочетания, часто употребляемые с глаголом в ед. числе и с неопределённым артиклем сknife and fork - нож с вилкой, столовый прибор из двух предметов
father and mother - отец с матерью; родители
coffee and (вм. coffee and doughnuts) - кофе с пончиками
ham and (вм. ham and eggs) - яичница с ветчиной
pork and (вм. pork and beans) - свинина с фасолью
3. 1) образует многозначные числа:4. 1) разг. присоединяет инфинитив к глаголам go, come, try и некоторым другим и указывает на цель, намерение для того чтобы, иlet's wait and see - ≅ поживём - увидим
the patient went and died on me - мой пациент неожиданно умер /взял да умер/
his wife went and had another child - его жена взяла да и родила ещё одного ребёнка
3) присоединяет прилагательные nice и good к другим прилагательным и придаёт им усилительное значение:I'll go when I'm good and ready - я поеду, когда буду совершенно готов
5. соединяя два одинаковых слова, подчёркивает1) различие в качестве, свойствах иthere are dogs and dogs, some mean, some friendly - собаки бывают разные - одни злые, другие добрые
for hours and hours - час за часом; в течение долгих часов
6. в сочетаниях:and so on, and so forth - а) и так далее, и тому подобное; we discussed travelling, sightseeing, and so forth - мы говорили о путешествиях, достопримечательностях и тому подобном; б) и другие; и прочие; parties, picnics and so on - вечера, пикники и многое другое
and then - а) а потом, и затем; б) кроме того, помимо этого
and yet, and still - и всё же, однако
you must be tired! - and how! - вы, должно быть, устали! - Ещё бы!
другие сочетания см. под соответствующими словамиII1. присоединяет слово или предложение, прибавляющее что-л. логически непосредственно не связанное с высказанной мыслью1) дополнительное сообщение и; к тому же, при этомit is a mere joke, and a poor one - это просто анекдот, к тому же /при этом/ глупый
2) сообщение, имеющее значение результата, следствия и т. п. а, иhe told her and she wept - он сказал ей, и она заплакала
2. после глаголов в повелительном наклонении вводит предложение, выражающее неизбежное следствие иIIIyou take a seat, and I shall stand - вы садитесь, а я постою
they stayed at home, and we left - они остались дома, а мы ушли
you are wrong, and you insist on being right - вы неправы и упорствуете в своей неправоте
IV1) выражает удивление и, неужелиand you did it? - и ты это сделал?
and who goes with you? - а кто с вами поедет?
and what good can it do? - а что хорошего может получиться из этого?
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1. cj (образует многозначные числа)short and — знак союза «и»
he and I — я и он; мы с ним
Синонимический ряд:1. part of speech (noun) although; but; conjunction; for; neither; part of speech2. as well as (other) also; as well as; but; in addition to; including; moreover; plus; together with -
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[ændˌ ənd]cjсоюзы сочинительные и подчинительные;1) иThey sang and danced. — Они пели и танцевали.
- you and IThey talked, sang and joked. — Они болтали, пели и шутили.
- apples, pears and plums2) сAll men and women — все люди;
- ham and eggsfish and chips is good supper. — Рыба с хрустящим картофелем - хороший ужин.
- knife and fork
- whisky and soda
- father and mother
- man and wife3) и, с- five and three quarters4) всё... и...They talked and talked. — Они говорили и говорили. /Они говорили безумолку.
- on and onHe walked miles and miles. — Он все шел и шел.
- worse and worse
- for hours and hours5) взял да и...The patient went and died on me. — А больной взял да и умер.
His wife went and had another baby. — Его жена взяла да и родила еще одного ребенка.
6) и к тому же, при этомIt is a mere joke, and a poor one. — Это просто шутка, к тому же/при этом глупая.
7) попробуй и..., только... и, и тогда...Say it again and I'll give it to you. — А ну скажи это еще раз и я тебя вздую.
Ask any policeman and he will tell you. — Спроси, и тебе любой полицейский скажет.
Water the seeds and they will grow. — Поливайте семена, и они тогда прорастут.
8) а, ноThey stayed at home and we left. — Они остались дома, а мы ушли.
You are wrong and you insist on being right. — Ты ошибаешься, а настаиваешь, что прав/а упорствуешь на своей правоте.
9) итак, какAnd our talk being exhausted for the time, and there being nothing further for us to do, we spread our blankets on in such a manner as to shut out most of the moonlight, wished each other good-night, and almost immediately fell asleep. — И так, как тема разговора на время была исчерпана, и делать нам было больше нечего, мы расстелили свои одеяла так, чтобы нам не мешал свет луны, пожелали друг другу спокойной ночи и мгновенно заснули.
10) и, неужели•USAGE:(1.) Союз and употребляется в утвердительных и вопросительных предложениях. В отрицательных предложениях для объединения отдельных его частей употребляется сочетание never... or: She never writes or reads in the evening. По вечерам она и не пишет и не читает. (2.) Союз and реализует свои разные значения в зависимости от типов предложений и конкретных членов предложения, которые он соединяет: 1. Союз and 1.1 соединяет однородные члены предложения и целые предложения: (а.) если соединяемых частей больше двух, то and употребляется только перед последней, все остальные друг от друга отделяются запятой. Части сложносочиненных предложений, соединяемых союзом and, так же отделяются друг от друга запятой: We went into the mountains, and we stayed there for a few weeks. Если соединяемые сочетания содержат в своем составе одно и то же слово, то в последующих частях оно может быть опущено: In towns and (in) villages. В городах и деревнях. I really must try and (must) see him to-morrow. Мне совершенно необходимо попытаться повидаться завтра с ним. Однородные подлежащие, соединяемые союзом and, как правило, согласуются с глаголом-сказуемым в форме множественного числа: My friend and his sister are not on holiday; (б) союз and 1.2, соединяя однородные члены предложения, может образовывать сочетания, составляющие единое целое. Такие комплексные сочетания состоят часто из названий предметов питания и быта: подлежащие, состоящие из таких сочетаний, в отличие от общего правила (1 а.) согласуются с глаголом в единственном числе: Ham and eggs is his favorite breakfast. Яичница с ветчиной - его любимый завтрак. Подлежащие, состоящие из однородных существительных, соединенных союзом and и образующие единый комплекс, согласуются с глаголом в единственном числе так же в следующих случаях: • после наречий here, there, которые стоят в начале предложения и при инвертированном порядке слов: Here comes the old man and his son. Вот идут старик со своим внуком. Here is your hat and gloves. Вот они - ваши шляпа и перчатки. ср. Where are my hat and gloves? Где же мои шляпа и перчатки?; •• если однородные подлежащие, выражены инфинитивами (но не герундиями!): To travel and see other countries was what he dreamt of. Он мечтал путешествовать и повидать другие страны.; ••• если соединяемые союзом and слова относятся к одному и тому же лицу (тому же предмету, той же идее): The great scientist and social leader begins a new campaign. Этот великий ученый и общественный деятель начинает новую кампанию.; •••• два однородных определения, соединенные союзом and, могут относиться к одному и тому же существительному, образуя единую характеристику и в этом случае существительное стоит в форме единственного числа, а артикль употребляется только один раз: The black and white dress she had on was very becoming. На ней было черно-белое платье, которое ей очень шло. The famous composer and singer is going to give a series of concerts. Известный композитор и певец дает серию концертов. Однородные определения, относящиеся к разным лицам (предметам) употребляются с существительными во множественном числе и при повторении артикля перед каждым определением: The black and the white dresses were very becoming. Ей шли черные и белые платья. The famous composer and the famous singer are taking part in the contest. Известный композитор и известный певец участвуют в конкурсе.; (в) союз and 1.3 образует составные названия чисел и в этих случаях на русский язык не переводится: two hundred and twenty five двести двадцать пять. And также присоединяет дроби к целым числам и соответствует русским предлогам с, и: two and three quarters - 23/4 два и три четверти; four and a half 41/2 четыре с половиной. 2. Союз and, объединяя два инфинитива, используется вместо частицы to второго инфинитива: I decided to call him and warn him against going there. Я решил позвонить ему и предостеречь его от поездки. (3.) В разговорной речи с рядом глаголов, таких как to try, to go, to come, to stay, to stop, to watch союз and с последующим инфинитивом без частицы to образует императивные сочетания, которые обычно используются для выражения приглашения, предложения, увещевания. При этом такие сочетания описывают только одно действие и имеют значение цели. В большинстве случаев эти глаголы употребляются в данной конструкции в форме повелительного наклонения: Go and look at the timetable. Пойди, взгляни на расписание. Come and see us more often. Заходите к нам почаще. Let's go and play chess. Пойдемте, поиграем в шахматы. Let's wait and see. Поживем, увидим. Mind and bring the book. Не забудь принести книгу. Глаголы to try и to wait в данной конструкции обычно употребляются в форме Future: I'll try and answer the question. Я попытаюсь ответить на этот вопрос. I'll wait (I would rather wait) and see how things go. Я (лучше) посмотрю, как пойдут дела. I'll try and get some unsalted butter. Я попытаюсь раздобыть несоленое масло. (4.) Союз and в соединении с рядом слов образует сочетания с усилительным и эмоциональным значением: (а.) and 1.5 в сочетании с предшествующим глаголом to go в разговорной речи привносит в высказывание элемент неожиданности, внезапности, непредвиденности: The patient went and died on me. Мой пациент взял да и умер. When things seemed settled he went and left the country. Когда казалось, все было улажено, он вдруг взял и уехал из страны.; (б) присоединяет прилагательные nice и good к другим прилагательным, делает все высказывание усилительным: I'll go when I'm good and ready. Я поеду, когда буду совершенно готов. He was good and angry. Он был взбешен. The room was nice and cool. В комнате была приятная прохлада.; (в) соединяет два одинаковых слова, подчеркивает различие качества соединяемых слов: There are friends and friends. Есть друзья и друзья. /Друзья разные бывают. There are dogs and dogs, some mean, some friendly. Собаки разные бывают - одни злые, другие добры.; (г) соединяя два одинаковых слова, and 1.4 подчеркивает нарастающую степень качества (в случае прилагательных), длительности или повторности действий: They went on and on. Они шли все дальше и дальше. better and better все лучше и лучше; colder and colder все холоднее; hours and hours часами; He talked and talked. Он говорил безумолку. /Он вес говорил и говорил.; (д) в начале вопросительных предложений привносит элемент удивления (6.): And what of it? Что из этого? And did you say so? И неужели ты так сказал? (5.) Союз and присоединяет к высказанному положению слово или предложение логически непосредственно не связанное с предыдущим: She was cold and angry. Она замерзла и к тому же была сердита. (6.) Союз and присоединяет к предшествующему высказыванию слово или предложение, обозначающее результаты, причины, следствия: He ate the fish and was sick. Он съел рыбу, и у него началась рвота. She felt unwell and took some medicine. Она себя неважно почувствовала и приняла лекарство. (7.) Союз and (7.) присоединяет к глаголам в форме повелительного наклонения предложение, выражающее непосредственное следствие: Stir and I fire. Не шевелись, а то - стреляю. (8.) Идею соединения могут передавать разнообразные союзы и словосочетания, весьма близкие по значению к союзу and: also, as well, too, not only... but also, besides, likewise, in addition to, moreover, furthermore: We went to the circus. We visited the museum as well. We went to the circus. We went to the museum too. We went to the circus as well as the zoo. We went to the circus. We also visited the zoo. Not only did we go to the circus, we also went to the zoo. Besides going to the zoo, we went to the circus. In addition to visiting the zoo, we went to the circus. Paul went to the circus. So did Peter. Конструкция not only... (but) also требует инвертированного порядка слов. Если часть сложного предложения, вводимая besides, in addition to, not only, стоит в начале сложного предложения, то она отделяется запятой: Besides buying these books, we bought a few pictures. In addition to visiting the zoo, we went to the circus. Not only did we go to the circus, we went to the zoo -
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♦ three /ɵri:/a. e n.1 tre: three books, tre libri; the three of diamonds, il tre di quadri; (mat.) the rule of three, la regola del tre; three quarters (o fourths) tre quarti; Three is my lucky number, il tre è il mio numero fortunato; There are three of them, sono in tre; Three out of four restaurants fail within a year, tre ristoranti su quattro falliscono entro un anno; a three-month ban, una squalifica di tre mesi2 tre ( anni d'età): His son is three, suo figlio ha tre anni; a three-year-old, un bambino (o una bambina) di tre anni● three-act play, commedia in tre atti □ ( golf) three-ball match, partita a tre palle □ ( baseball) three-base hit, triplo (sost. m.) □ a three-bottle man, un gran bevitore □ the three C's, le tre C; automobile, televisore a colori e aria condizionata ( cioè: car, colour TV, air conditioning) □ the three-card trick, il gioco delle tre carte □ (archit.) three-centred arch, arco a tre centri □ ( arti grafiche) three-colour process, tricromia □ three-cornered contest (o fight), competizione a tre; scontro elettorale fra tre candidati □ three-cornered hat, tricorno □ (equit.) three-day event, completo; gara dei tre giorni ( dressage, campestre e ostacoli) □ (econ.) three-day week, settimana lavorativa di tre giorni □ ( USA) three-day weekend, fine settimana lungo; ponte (fig.) □ three-decker, (stor.) nave a tre ponti; (fam.) qualsiasi cosa a tre piani (o strati); romanzo in tre volumi; ( anche three-decker sandwich) doppio sandwich, tramezzino doppio □ (scient., tecn.) three-dimensional, tridimensionale □ three-figure number, numero di tre cifre □ (di gioco di carte) three-handed, che si gioca in tre □ (relig.) Three in One, la Santissima Trinità □ (autom.) a three-lane highway, una strada a tre corsie □ ( sport) the three leading drivers ( riders, runners), il terzetto di testa (di piloti, di ciclisti, di podisti) □ a three-legged race, una corsa a tre gambe ( a coppie di corridori, la gamba destra di uno dei quali è legata alla gamba sinistra dell'altro) □ a three-legged table, un tavolino a tre gambe □ (GB) three-line whip, (polit.) richiesta scritta a un parlamentare ( da parte dei leader di partito) di presenziare a una seduta e votare in un certo modo; (fig.) invito pressante NOTE DI CULTURA: La locuzione three-line whip allude alla triplice sottolineatura, sulla circolare preparata dal ► «whip» (def. 4) per i deputati del suo partito, delle sedute a cui è obbligatoria la presenza □ (psic., USA) three o'clock syndrome, sindrome delle tre del pomeriggio □ ( poker) three of a kind, tris □ ( USA, spec. sport) three-peat, terza vittoria consecutiva □ (elettr.) three-phase, trifase □ three-piece, a tre pezzi: three-piece suite, salotto a tre pezzi ( sofà e due poltrone uguali) □ (elettr.) three-pin plug, presa tripolare □ three-ply, a tre strati; a tre capi; a tre fili: three-ply wood, compensato a tre strati; three-ply wool, lana a tre capi □ ( basket) three-point basket (o three-pointer), canestro da tre punti; canestro pesante □ (aeron.) a three-point landing, un atterraggio su tre punti; un atterraggio perfetto □ three-point turn, (autom.) inversione di marcia fatta in tre manovre; (fig.) manovra difficile □ three-pronged, a tre rebbi; triforcuto; (fig.) triplice, su tre fronti, su tre direttrici □ ( rugby) three-quarter, trequarti □ a three-quarter bed, un letto a una piazza e mezzo □ ( moda) three-quarter ( length) coat, giacca trequarti □ a three-quarter portrait, un ritratto di tre quarti □ the three R's, le tre R; leggere, scrivere e far di conto ( cioè: ‘reading, writing and /a/rithmetic’) □ three-ring circus, circo con tre arene; (fig. USA) posto incasinato, pieno di confusione □ ( basket) three-second area, zona dei tre secondi □ three-sided, trilaterale □ (fam.) a three-sixty, un giro di trecentosessanta gradi; una piroetta □ (mecc.) three-speed gear, cambio a tre velocità □ a three-star hotel, un albergo a tre stelle □ (edil.) a three-storeyed building, un edificio a tre piani □ ( atletica) the 3,000-metre steeplechase, i tremila siepi □ three times three, (mat.) tre per tre; ( anche) tre salve di applausi di tre evviva ciascuna □ three-wheeler, veicolo a tre ruote; triciclo □ three-wheeler truck, motofurgone; motocarro □ three-year-old, a. di tre anni; che ha tre anni; n. bambino (o bambina) di tre anni; (ipp.) cavallo di tre anni. -
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Ɵri:
1. noun1) (the number or figure 3.) tres2) (the age of 3.) tres años de edad
2. adjective1) (3 in number.) tres2) (aged 3.) de tres años de edad•- three-- three-dimensional
- three-quarter
- three-year-old
3. adjective((of a person, animal or thing) that is three years old.) de tres añosthree num trestr[ɵriː]1 tres nombre masculino1 tres\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLthree ['ɵri:] adj: tresthree n: tres madj.• tres adj.n.• tres s.m.
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[θriː]1.ADJ, PRON tresthree cheers! — ¡tres hurras!
the best of three — (Sport) hasta tres sets or partidos
2.THREE RS La expresión the three Rs hace referencia a los tres aspectos que se consideran fundamentales en educación: reading, writing, and arithmetic (lectura, escritura y aritmética). La expresión, que tiene su origen en la forma humorística en la que se escribe a veces la frase: reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic, se menciona a menudo cuando se habla de la necesidad de mejorar la calidad de la enseñanza.* * *
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(редуцированные формы) союз
1) и сочинительный союз, реализующий различные логические отношения между соединяемыми
2) в сложных словах
3) противительный союз а, но I shall go and you stay here. ≈ Я пойду, а ты оставайся здесь. There are books and books. ≈ Есть книги и книги.
4) присоединяет инфинитив к сказуемому try and do it ≈ постарайтесь это сделать ∙знак & соединяет однородные члены предложения и целые предложения и, с - Paul * Mary Пол и Мери;
- apples, pears * plums яблоки, груши и сливы;
- they sang * danced они пели и танцевали;
- you * I мы с вами из названий, преим. предметов питания и быта, образует сочетания, часто употребляемые с глаголом в ед. числе и с неопределенным артиклем с - bread * butter хлеб с маслом;
- ham * eggs яичница с ветчиной;
- knife * fork нож с вилкой, столовый прибор из двух предметов;
- whisky * soda виски с содовой;
- father * mother отец с матерью;
родители;
- all men * women все люди;
- fish * chips is a good supper рыба с картошкой - хороший ужин (американизм) (просторечие) в усеченных словосочетаниях с - coffee * кофе с пончиками;
- ham * яичница с ветчиной;
- pork * свинина с фасолью образует многозначные числа - two hundred * twenty five двести двадцать пять;
- two thousand * thirty две тысячи тридцать;
- four * twenty двадцать четыре присоединяет дроби к целым числам и, с - four * three quarters четыре и три четверти;
- four * a half четыре с половиной (разговорное) присоединяет инфинитив к глаголам go, come, try и некоторым другим и указывает на цель, намерение для того чтобы, и - go * look at it пойди и взгляни на это;
- come * see давай посмотри-ка;
- try * do it попробуй это сделать;
- mind * bring the book не забудь принести книгу;
- let's wait * see поживем - увидим после глагола go вносит в высказывание элемент неожиданности - the patient went and died on me мой пациент неожиданно умер;
- his wife went and had another child его жена взяла да и родила еще одного ребенка присоединяет прилагательные nice и good к другим прилагательным и придает им усилительное значение - the room was nice * cool в комнате была приятная прохлада;
- he was good * angry он был взбешен;
- I'll go when I'm good * ready я поеду, когда буду совершенно готов соединяя два одинаковых слова, подчеркивает различие в качестве, свойствах и - there are friends * friends есть друзья и друзья;
- there are dogs * dogs, some mean, some friendly собаки бывают разные - одни злые, другие добрые значение множественности или длительности процесса и - better * better все лучше и лучше;
- worse * worse все хуже и хуже;
- for hours * hours час за часом;
в течение долгих часов;
- he talked * talked он говорил и говорил;
- we walked miles * miles мы все шли и шли в сочетаниях * so on, * so forth и так далее, и тому подобное - we discussed travelling, sightseeing, * so forth мы говорили о путешествиях, достопримечательностях и тому подобном и другие;
и прочие - parties, picnics * so on вечера, пикники и многое другое;
- * then а потом, и затем;
кроме того, помимо этого - * yet, * still и все же, однако - * how еще как;
- you must be tired! - * how! вы, должно быть, устали! - Еще бы! присоединяет слово или предложение, прибавляющее что-л. логически непосредственно не связанное с высказанной мыслью дополнительное сообщение и;
к тому же, при этом - it is a mere joke, * a poor one это просто анекдот, к тому же глупый cообщение, имеющее значение результата, следствия а, и - he told her * she wept он сказал ей, и она заплакала после глаголов в повелительном наклонении вводится предложение, выражающее неизбежное следствие и - stir * you are a dead man (по) шевельнись - и ты покойник употребляется при противопоставлении а, и - you take a seat, * I shall stand вы садитесь, а я постою;
- they staved at home, * we left они остались дома, а мы ушли;
- you are wrong, * you insist on being right вы неправы и упорствуете в своей неправоте (разговорное) в начале вопросительного предложения выражает удивление и, неужели - * you did it? и ты это сделал? обозначает переход к новой мысли а - * who goes with you? а кто с вами поедет?;
- * what good can it do? а что хорошего может получиться из этого?and cj в сложных словах: four and twenty двадцать четыре;
a hundred and twenty сто двадцать;
give-and-take policy политика взаимных уступок ~ а, но;
I shall go and you stay here я пойду, а ты оставайся здесь;
there are books and books есть книги и книги ~ и;
boys and girls мальчики и девочкиfor miles ~ miles бесконечно;
очень далеко;
for hours and hours часами, очень долго;
and yet и все же~ и;
boys and girls мальчики и девочкиtry and do it постарайтесь это сделать;
come and see приходите посмотреть;
wait and see поживем - увидимfor miles ~ miles бесконечно;
очень далеко;
for hours and hours часами, очень долго;
and yet и все жеfor miles ~ miles бесконечно;
очень далеко;
for hours and hours часами, очень долго;
and yet и все жеand cj в сложных словах: four and twenty двадцать четыре;
a hundred and twenty сто двадцать;
give-and-take policy политика взаимных уступокand cj в сложных словах: four and twenty двадцать четыре;
a hundred and twenty сто двадцать;
give-and-take policy политика взаимных уступокand cj в сложных словах: four and twenty двадцать четыре;
a hundred and twenty сто двадцать;
give-and-take policy политика взаимных уступок~ а, но;
I shall go and you stay here я пойду, а ты оставайся здесь;
there are books and books есть книги и книги~ а, но;
I shall go and you stay here я пойду, а ты оставайся здесь;
there are books and books есть книги и книгиtry and do it постарайтесь это сделать;
come and see приходите посмотреть;
wait and see поживем - увидимtry and do it постарайтесь это сделать;
come and see приходите посмотреть;
wait and see поживем - увидим -
9 up and down
1. вверх и вниз, поднимаясь и опускаясь2. взад и вперёд; туда и сюдаthey flew up and up — они летели ввысь, они взмыли в вышину
3. повсюду, вездеhere, there, and everywhere — повсюду
4. полностью, в совершенстве5. беглый просмотр или осмотрto give a letter the up and down — пробежать глазами письмо, бегло просмотреть письмо, быстро прочитать письмо
6. подъёмы и спускиshort and — знак союза «и»
he and I — я и он; мы с ним
imp. and exp — имп. и эксп
7. ухабы8. взлёты и падения; превратности судьбы9. резкие изменения10. скачки ценСинонимический ряд:1. back and forth (other) back and forth; backwards and forwards; to and fro2. thoroughly (other) completely; detailedly; exhaustively; in and out; inside out; thoroughly -
10 both for and against
как за, так и противhither and thither — туда и сюда, взад и вперёд
English-Russian big medical dictionary > both for and against
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11 quarter
'kwo:tə
1. noun1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) cuarto2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) veinticinco centavos3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) barrio4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) dirección, (de todas) partes5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) gracia6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) cuarto7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) cuarto8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) cuarto9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) trimestre
2. verb1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) cortar en cuatro2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) dividir en cuatro, cuartear3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) acuartelar, alojar•
3. adverb(once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.) trimestralmente
4. noun(a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) publicación trimestral- quarters- quarter-deck
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quartermaster
- at close quarters
quarter n1. cuarta parte / cuarto2. cuarto5:15 is the same as a quarter past five 5:15 es lo mismo que las cinco y cuarto3. barriotr['kwɔːtəSMALLr/SMALL]1 cuarto2 (area) barrio3 (time) cuarto4 (weight) cuarto de libra5 (of moon) cuarto6 (three months) trimestre nombre masculino1 dividir en cuatro2 (reduce) reducir a la cuarta parte3 SMALLHISTORY/SMALL descuartizar4 (lodge) alojar1 alojamiento m sing\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLat close quarters desde muy cercafrom all quarters de todas partesto give no quarter no dar cuartelfirst quarter cuarto crecientelast quarter cuarto menguanteofficer's quarters residencia f sing de oficialesquarter ['kwɔrt̬ər] vt1) : dividir en cuatro partes2) lodge: alojar, acuartelar (tropas)quarter n1) : cuarto m, cuarta parte fa foot and a quarter: un pie y cuartoa quarter after three: las tres y cuarto2) : moneda f de 25 centavos, cuarto m de dólar3) district: barrio mbusiness quarter: barrio comercial4) place: parte ffrom all quarters: de todas partesat close quarters: de muy cerca5) mercy: clemencia f, cuartel mto give no quarter: no dar cuartel6) quarters npllodging: alojamiento m, cuartel m (militar)n.• moneda de veinticinco centavos de dólar s.f. (Ship)n.• camarote s.m.adj.• cuarto, -a adj.n.• barrio s.m.• cuadra s.f.• cuarta s.f.• cuartel s.m.• cuarterón s.m.• cuarto s.m.• cuarto de luna s.m.• moneda de 25 centavos s.f.• trimestre (Académico) s.m.v.• acantonar v.• acuartelar v.• alojar v.• cuartear v.• cuartelar v.• descuartizar v.
I 'kwɔːrtər, 'kwɔːtə(r)1) ca) ( fourth part) cuarta parte f, cuarto ma quarter of a mile/century — un cuarto de milla/siglo
four and a o one quarter gallons — cuatro galones y cuarto
b) (as adv)2) ca) (US, Canadian coin) moneda f de 25 centavosb) ( of moon) cuarto m3) ca) ( in telling time) cuarto mit's a quarter of o (BrE) to one — es la una menos cuarto or (AmL exc RPl) un cuarto para la una
a quarter after o (BrE) past one — la una y cuarto
at (a) quarter after o (BrE) past — a las y cuarto
b) ( three months) trimestre mto pay by the quarter — pagar trimestralmente or por trimestres
4) ca) ( district of town) barrio mb) ( area) parte f5) quarters pl ( accommodations)married quarters — ( Mil) viviendas fpl para familias
6) u ( mercy) (liter)he showed o gave them no quarter — no tuvo clemencia para con ellos
II
transitive verb (often pass) ( divide) \<\<carcass/body\>\> descuartizar*; \<\<apple\>\> dividir en cuatro partesto be hung, drawn and quartered — ser* ahorcado, destripado y descuartizado
III
adjective cuarto['kwɔːtǝ(r)]1. N1) (=fourth part) [of kilo, kilometre, second] cuarto m ; [of price, population] cuarta parte fto divide sth into quarters — dividir algo en cuartos or en cuatro
•
it's a quarter gone already — ya se ha gastado la cuarta parte2) (in time) cuarto ma quarter of an hour/century — un cuarto de hora/siglo
•
it's a quarter to or (US) of seven — son las siete menos cuarto, es un cuarto para las siete (LAm)a) (US, Canada) (=25 cents) (moneda f de) cuarto m de dólarb) [of year] trimestre m•
to pay by the quarter — pagar trimestralmente or al trimestre or cada tres mesesc) [of moon] cuarto m•
when the moon is in its first/ last quarter — cuando la luna está en cuarto creciente/menguante4) (=part of town) barrio m•
the business quarter — el barrio comercial•
the old quarter — el casco viejo or antiguo5) (=direction, area)•
from all quarters — de todas partes•
at close quarters — de cerca•
they are spread over the four quarters of the globe — se extienden por todos los rincones or por todas partes del mundo•
help came from an unexpected quarter — la ayuda nos llegó de un lugar inesperado6) (Naut, Geog) [of compass] cuarta f7) (Heraldry) cuartel m•
they knew they could expect no quarter — sabían que no podían esperar clemencia9) quarters (=accommodation)living 4.married 2.the crew's/officers' quarters — (on ship) las dependencias de la tripulación/de los oficiales
2.ADJ cuartoa quarter pound/century — un cuarto de libra/siglo
3. VT1) (=divide into four) [+ apple, potato] cortar en cuatro (trozos); [+ carcass, body] descuartizar; hang 1., 3), a)2) (Mil) acuartelar, alojar3) (=range over) [person] recorrer4.CPDquarter day N — (gen) primer día del trimestre ; (Econ) el día del vencimiento de un pago trimestral
quarter light N — (Brit) (Aut) ventanilla f direccional
quarter note N — (US) (Mus) negra f
quarter pound N — cuarto m de libra
quarter tone N — cuarto m de tono
quarter turn N — cuarto m de vuelta
* * *
I ['kwɔːrtər, 'kwɔːtə(r)]1) ca) ( fourth part) cuarta parte f, cuarto ma quarter of a mile/century — un cuarto de milla/siglo
four and a o one quarter gallons — cuatro galones y cuarto
b) (as adv)2) ca) (US, Canadian coin) moneda f de 25 centavosb) ( of moon) cuarto m3) ca) ( in telling time) cuarto mit's a quarter of o (BrE) to one — es la una menos cuarto or (AmL exc RPl) un cuarto para la una
a quarter after o (BrE) past one — la una y cuarto
at (a) quarter after o (BrE) past — a las y cuarto
b) ( three months) trimestre mto pay by the quarter — pagar trimestralmente or por trimestres
4) ca) ( district of town) barrio mb) ( area) parte f5) quarters pl ( accommodations)married quarters — ( Mil) viviendas fpl para familias
6) u ( mercy) (liter)he showed o gave them no quarter — no tuvo clemencia para con ellos
II
transitive verb (often pass) ( divide) \<\<carcass/body\>\> descuartizar*; \<\<apple\>\> dividir en cuatro partesto be hung, drawn and quartered — ser* ahorcado, destripado y descuartizado
III
adjective cuarto -
12 quarter
1. noun1) Viertel, dasa or one quarter of — ein Viertel (+ Gen.)
divide/cut something into quarters — etwas in vier Teile teilen/schneiden; etwas vierteln
a quarter [of a pound] of cheese — ein Viertel[pfund] Käse
a quarter of a mile/an hour — eine Viertelmeile/-stunde
3) (point of time)[a] quarter to/past six — Viertel vor/nach sechs; drei Viertel sechs/Viertel sieben (landsch.)
there are buses at quarter to and quarter past [the hour] — es fahren Busse um Viertel vor und Viertel nach jeder vollen Stunde
4) (direction) Richtung, dieblow from all quarters — [Wind:] aus allen Richtungen wehen
5) (source of supply or help) Seite, diein some quarters — (fig.) in gewissen Kreisen
9) (Amer.) (school term) Viertelschuljahr, das; (university term) halbes Semester10) (Astron.) Viertel, das11) (mercy)2. transitive verbgive no quarter to somebody — jemandem keinen Pardon (veralt.) gewähren od. geben
1) (divide) vierteln; durch vier teilen [Zahl, Summe]2) (lodge) einquartieren [Soldaten]* * *['kwo:tə] 1. noun1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) das Viertel2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) der Vierteldollar3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) das Viertel4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) die Gegend5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) die Schonung6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) das Hinterviertel7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) das erste/dritte Mondviertel8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) das Spielviertel9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) das Viertel2. verb1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) vierteln2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) vierteilen3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) einquartieren•- academic.ru/59595/quarterly">quarterly3. adverb(once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.)4. noun(a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) die Vierteljahresschrift- quarters- quarter-deck
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quartermaster
- at close quarters* * *quar·ter[ˈkwɔ:təʳ, AM ˈkwɔ:rt̬ɚ]I. nthe bottle was a \quarter full es war noch ein Viertel in der Flaschefor a \quarter of the price [or for \quarter the price] zu einem Viertel des Preisesa \quarter [of a pound] of tea ein Viertel[pfund] Teethree \quarters drei Viertelto divide sth into \quarters etw in vier Teile teilena \quarter of a century ein Vierteljahrhundert nta \quarter of an hour eine Viertelstundean hour and a \quarter eineinviertel Stundenpaid by the \quarter vierteljährlich bezahlt▪ \quarters pl ein Spiel, bei dem ein Vierteldollar in ein Glas Bier geschnippt wirdhelp came from a totally unexpected \quarter Hilfe kam von völlig unerwarteter Seitein certain \quarters in gewissen Kreisenfrom high \quarters von höherer Stelleto ask/cry for \quarter um Gnade bitten/flehenno \quarter was asked for and none given es wurde auf beiden Seiten schonungslos gekämpftto give \quarter Erbarmen haben9. (lodgings)married \quarters Familienunterkunft fservants' \quarters Dienstbotenwohnung fto be confined to \quarters MIL Stubenarrest habenfrom the north/west \quarter aus nördlicher/westlicher Richtungon the port \quarter backbordon the starboard \quarter steuerbord12.▶ at close \quarters with sb in jds Nähethey fought at close \quarters sie kämpften Mann gegen MannII. vt▪ to \quarter sth etw vierteln2. (give housing)▪ to \quarter sb somewhere jdn irgendwo unterbringen▪ to be \quartered with sb bei jdm untergebracht [o einquartiert] werden\quarter hour Viertelstunde f\quarter pound Viertelpfund nt* * *['kwɔːtə(r)]1. n1) (= fourth part) Viertel ntthe bottle was a quarter/three-quarters full — die Flasche war zu einem Viertel/zu drei Vierteln gefüllt, die Flasche war viertel/drei viertel voll
a quarter of a mile —
it was a quarter as big as the other one — es war ein Viertel so groß wie das andere
for a quarter (of) the price, for quarter the price — zu einem Viertel des Preises
2) (in expressions of time) Viertel nta quarter to seven, a quarter of seven (US) — (ein) Viertel vor sieben, drei viertel sieben (dial)
a quarter past six, a quarter after six (US) — (ein) Viertel nach sechs, viertel sieben (dial)
the clock has just struck the quarter — die Uhr hat eben Viertel or die Viertelstunde geschlagen
an hour and a quarter — eineinviertel Stunden, fünf viertel Stunden
3) (= fourth of year) Vierteljahr nt, Quartal nt5) (= district in town) Viertel nt6)(= area)
he has travelled in every quarter of the globe — er hat schon alle Ecken der Welt bereist7) (= direction) (Himmels)richtung f8) (NAUT: direction of wind) Richtung fthey were unaccustomed to fighting at close quarters — sie waren nicht an den Nahkampf gewöhnt
12) (NAUT: part of ship) Achterschiff nt13) (= mercy in battle) Schonung f, Pardon m15) (of moon) Viertel nt17) (MEASURE) ≈ Viertelzentner m2. adjViertel-quarter pound/mile — Viertelpfund nt/-meile f
the/a quarter part — das/ein Viertel
3. vt2) (= lodge) unterbringen, einquartieren (ALSO MIL) (on bei)* * *quarter [ˈkwɔː(r)tə(r)]A s1. Viertel n, vierter Teil:quarter of a century Vierteljahrhundert n;for a quarter (of) the price zu einem Viertel des Preises;not a quarter as good as nicht annähernd so gut wie;the stadium was only a quarter full das Stadion war nur zu einem Viertel gefüllt2. US oder Can Vierteldollar m (= 25 Cents)three quarters of an hour Dreiviertelstunde f;the clock strikes the quarters die Uhr schlägt viertelstündlichby the quarter vierteljährlich, quartalsweise5. ASTRON (Mond)Viertel n6. besonders USa) UNIV (Studien)Quartal nb) SCHULE Viertel n des Schuljahres7. SPORT (Spiel)Viertel n8. Viertelpfund n (0,113 kg)10. Quarter n:a) Br 28 lb. = 12,7 kg, US 25 lb. =11,34 kg (Handelsgewicht)b) Br = 2,91 hl (Hohlmaß)11. SCHIFFa) Kardinalpunkt m, Haupthimmelsrichtung f (des Kompasses)b) Viertelstrich m (des Kompasses = 2° 49’)12. (Himmels-, Wind) Richtung f:13. Gegend f, Teil m (eines Landes etc):14. Stelle f, Seite f, Quelle f:higher quarters höhere Stellen;in the highest quarters an höchster Stelle;in the proper quarter bei der zuständigen Stelle;in Government quarters in Regierungskreisen;from all quarters von allen Seiten ( → A 13);15. (Stadt)Viertel n, (-)Bezirk m:poor quarter Armenviertel;residential quarter Wohnbezirk16. meist pl MIL Quartier n, (Truppen)Unterkunft f:be confined to quarters Stubenarrest haben;take up (one’s) quarters Quartier beziehen17. meist pl Quartier n, Unterkunft f, Wohnung f, Logis n:have free quarters umsonst wohnen, freie Wohnung habenask for quarter um Schonung bitten;give quarter Pardon geben oder gewähren21. SCHIFF Achterschiff n22. SCHIFF Posten m:beat to quarters die Mannschaft auf ihre Posten rufen23. SCHIFF Raharm m25. ARCH, TECH Stollenholz n, Vierpass mB v/t1. etwas in vier Teile teilen, vierteln2. aufteilen, zerstückeln4. jemanden beherbergenquartered in barracks kaserniert;quarter o.s. on sb allg sich bei jemandem einquartieren6. Heraldik: ein Wappenschild vierenC v/i1. wohnen, leben2. einquartiert sein, Quartier haben ( beide:at in dat, bei)3. umherstreifen (Jagdhunde)4. SCHIFF mit Backstagswind segelnq. abk2. quarter3. quarterly4. quasi5. query6. questionqu. abk3. queen4. query5. question* * *1. noun1) Viertel, dasa or one quarter of — ein Viertel (+ Gen.)
divide/cut something into quarters — etwas in vier Teile teilen/schneiden; etwas vierteln
a quarter [of a pound] of cheese — ein Viertel[pfund] Käse
a quarter of a mile/an hour — eine Viertelmeile/-stunde
[a] quarter to/past six — Viertel vor/nach sechs; drei Viertel sechs/Viertel sieben (landsch.)
there are buses at quarter to and quarter past [the hour] — es fahren Busse um Viertel vor und Viertel nach jeder vollen Stunde
4) (direction) Richtung, dieblow from all quarters — [Wind:] aus allen Richtungen wehen
5) (source of supply or help) Seite, diein some quarters — (fig.) in gewissen Kreisen
9) (Amer.) (school term) Viertelschuljahr, das; (university term) halbes Semester10) (Astron.) Viertel, das11) (mercy)give no quarter to somebody — jemandem keinen Pardon (veralt.) gewähren od. geben
12) (Amer.): (amount, coin) Vierteldollar, der; 25-Cent-Stück, das2. transitive verb1) (divide) vierteln; durch vier teilen [Zahl, Summe]2) (lodge) einquartieren [Soldaten]* * *(year) n.Quartal -e n. n.Gegend -en f.Quartier -e n.Viertel - n. v.einquartieren v. -
13 quarter
quarter ['kwɔ:tə(r)]∎ a quarter hour/century/pound un quart d'heure/de siècle/de livre∎ to quarter a cake couper un gâteau en quatre parts égales(b) (divide by four) diviser par quatre;∎ prices have been quartered les prix ont été divisés par quatre∎ the troops are quartered in the town les soldats sont logés en ville∎ to quarter the ground quêter3 noun(a) (one fourth) quart m; (portion → of apple, circle, century etc) quart m; (→ of orange, moon) quartier m;∎ during the first quarter of the century au cours du premier quart de ce siècle;∎ a quarter of a century/of an hour un quart de siècle/d'heure;∎ a quarter century un quart de siècle;∎ a ton and a quarter, one and a quarter tons une tonne un quart;∎ he ate a quarter/three quarters of the cake il a mangé le quart/les trois quarts du gâteau;∎ it's a quarter/three quarters empty c'est au quart/aux trois quarts vide;∎ we've only done (a) quarter of the work nous n'avons fait que le quart du travail(b) (in telling time) quart m;∎ it's a quarter past il est le quart(c) (three-month period) trimestre m;∎ published every quarter publié tous les trimestres ou tous les trois mois;∎ to be paid by the quarter être payé par trimestre;∎ profits were up during the last quarter les bénéfices ont augmenté au cours du dernier trimestre(d) (US and Canadian money) (pièce f de) vingt-cinq cents mpl∎ the wind is in the port/starboard quarter le vent souffle par la hanche de bâbord/tribord∎ the decision has been criticized in certain quarters la décision a été critiquée dans certains milieux;∎ in well-informed quarters dans les milieux bien informés;∎ offers of help poured in from all quarters des offres d'aide affluèrent de tous côtés(h) (part of town) quartier m;∎ the residential quarter le quartier résidentiel(i) (phase of moon) quartier m;∎ the moon is in the first/last quarter la lune est dans le premier/dernier quartier(k) (part of butchered animal) quartier m∎ they gave no quarter ils ne firent pas de quartier;∎ there was no quarter given or asked on ne fit pas de quartier(accommodation) domicile m, résidence f; Military quartiers mpl, cantonnement m, logement m;∎ the servants' quarters les appartements mpl des domestiques;∎ married quarters logement m pour couples mariés;∎ she took up quarters in central London elle a élu domicile ou s'est installée dans le centre de Londres;∎ many families live in very cramped quarters de nombreuses familles vivent dans des conditions de surpeuplement►► quarter binding (in bookbinding) demi-reliure f;Law quarter sessions (in England and Wales) ≃ cour f d'assises (remplacée en 1972 par la "Crown Court"); (in US) = dans certains États, tribunal local à compétence criminelle, pouvant avoir des fonctions administratives;Music quarter tone quart m de ton -
14 quarter
quar·ter [ʼkwɔ:təʳ, Am ʼkwɔ:rt̬ɚ] nthe bottle was a \quarter full es war noch ein Viertel in der Flasche;for a \quarter of the price [or for \quarter the price] zu einem Viertel des Preises;a \quarter [of a pound] of tea ein Viertel[pfund] Tee;three \quarters drei Viertel;to divide sth into \quarters etw in vier Teile teilena \quarter of a century ein Vierteljahrhundert nt;a \quarter of an hour eine Viertelstunde;an hour and a \quarter eineinviertel Stunden;paid by the \quarter vierteljährlich bezahlt\quarters pl ein Spiel, bei dem ein Vierteldollar in ein Glas Bier geschnippt wirdhelp came from a totally unexpected \quarter Hilfe kam von völlig unerwarteter Seite;in certain \quarters in gewissen Kreisen;from high \quarters von höherer Stelleto ask/cry for \quarter um Gnade bitten/flehen;no \quarter was asked for and none given es wurde auf beiden Seiten schonungslos gekämpft;to give \quarter Erbarmen haben9) ( lodgings)married \quarters Familienunterkunft f;servants'\quarters Dienstbotenwohnung f;to be confined to \quarters mil Stubenarrest habenfrom the north/west \quarter aus nördlicher/westlicher Richtungon the port \quarter backbord;on the starboard \quarter steuerbordPHRASES:at close \quarters with sb in jds Nähe;they fought at close \quarters sie kämpften Mann gegen Mann vt1) ( cut into four)to \quarter sth etw vierteln;to \quarter sb hist jdn vierteilen2) ( give housing)to \quarter sb somewhere jdn irgendwo unterbringen;to be \quartered with sb bei jdm untergebracht [o einquartiert] werden;inv Viertel-;\quarter hour Viertelstunde f;\quarter pound Viertelpfund nt -
15 hour
noun1) Stunde, diethe 24-hour or twenty-four-hour clock — die Vierundzwanzigstundenuhr
2) (time o'clock) Zeit, dieat this late hour — zu so später Stunde (geh.)
at all hours — zu jeder [Tages- oder Nacht]zeit; (late at night) spät in der Nacht
the small hours [of the morning] — die frühen Morgenstunden
0100/0200/1700/1800 hours — (on 24-hour clock) 1.00/2.00/17.00/18.00 Uhr
3) in pl.doctor's hours — Sprechstunde, die
during school hours — während der Schulstunden od. des Unterrichts
out of/after hours — (in office, bank, etc.) außerhalb der Dienstzeit; (in shop) außerhalb der Geschäftszeit; (in pub) außerhalb der Ausschankzeit
4) (particular time) Stunde, diethe question etc. of the hour — das Problem usw. der Stunde
5) (distance) Stunde, die* * *1) (sixty minutes, the twenty-fourth part of a day: He spent an hour trying to start the car this morning; She'll be home in half an hour; a five-hour delay.) die Stunde2) (the time at which a particular thing happens: when the hour for action arrives; He helped me in my hour of need; You can consult him during business hours.) die Stunde•- academic.ru/35812/hourly">hourly- hour-glass
- hour hand
- at all hours
- for hours
- on the hour* * *[aʊəʳ, AM aʊr]nweather conditions here change from \hour to \hour das Wetter ändert sich hier stündlichI'll be there within an \hour ich bin in einer Stunde dathe gas station is open 24 \hours a day die Tankstelle hat 24 Stunden am Tag geöffnetwe work an eight-\hour day wir haben einen Achtstundentag\hour after [or upon] \hour Stunde um Stundein an \hour['s time] in einer Stunde50/90 kilometres an [or per] \hour 50/90 Kilometer pro Stunde15 dollars/£10 an \hour 15 Dollar/10 Pfund die Stundeto be paid by the \hour pro Stunde bezahlt werden, Stundenlohn bekommento do sth for \hours etw stundenlang tun2. (on clock) [volle] Stundethe clock struck the \hour die Uhr schlug die volle Stundethe train is scheduled to arrive on the \hour der Zug kommt planmäßig zur vollen Stunde anten minutes past/to the \hour zehn Minuten nach/vor [der vollen Stunde]every \hour on the \hour jede volle Stundegranny spent long \hours talking about her childhood Oma sprach oft Stunden über ihre Kindheithe stays up drinking till all \hours er trinkt bis früh in den Morgenin one's \hour of need in der Stunde der Not gehat the agreed \hour zur vereinbarten Zeitto keep late \hours lange aufbleibento keep regular \hours geregelte Zeiten einhaltento work long \hours lange arbeitenat all \hours zu jeder Tages- und Nachtzeitat any \hour jederzeitat this \hour in dieser Stunde4. (present time)the man of the \hour der Mann der Stundethe problem of the \hour das aktuelle Problem5. (for an activity)what are the \hours in this office? wie sind die Arbeitszeiten in diesem Büro?the shares rose in after-\hour trading die Aktien stiegen an der Nachtbörsebanking \hours Schalterstunden pl (einer Bank)business \hours Geschäftsstunden pl, Geschäftszeit fdoctor's \hours Sprechstunden pllunch \hour Mittagspause foffice \hours Bürozeit[en] fopening \hours Öffnungszeiten ploutside \hours außerhalb der Bürozeit[en]it's about 3 \hour's walk from here von hier sind es etwa 3 Stunden zu Fußan \hour away eine [Weg]stunde entfernt[credit] \hour Stunde f8.▶ the eleventh \hour in letzter Minute, fünf vor Zwölf▶ the witching \hour die Geisterstunde* * *['aʊə(r)]nhalf an hour, a half hour — eine halbe Stunde
three-quarters of an hour — eine Dreiviertelstunde, drei viertel Stunden
a quarter of an hour — eine Viertelstunde, eine viertel Stunde
an hour and a half — anderthalb or eineinhalb Stunden
it's two hours' walk from here — von hier geht man zwei Stunden, von hier sind es zu Fuß zwei Stunden
two hours' walk from here there is an old castle — nach einem Weg von zwei Stunden kommt man an ein altes Schloss or zu einem alten Schloss
at 1500/1530 hours — um 15.00/15.30 Uhr
at fifteen hundred/fifteen thirty hours (spoken) — um fünfzehn Uhr/fünfzehn Uhr dreißig
hour by hour — mit jeder Stunde, stündlich
at the hour of his death — in der Stunde seines Todes, in seiner Todesstunde
at an early hour — früh, zu früher Stunde (geh)
at a late hour — spät, zu später Stunde (geh)
at all hours (of the day and night) — zu jeder (Tages- und Nacht)zeit
what! at this hour of the night! —
to drive at 50 kilometres an hour — 50 Kilometer in der Stunde or 50 Stundenkilometer fahren
a 30 mile(s) an or per hour limit — eine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung von 30 Meilen in der Stunde
she is paid £6 an hour — sie bekommt £6 pro Stunde`
2) pl (inf: a long time) Stunden plI was hours late — ich war sehr spät dran (inf),
he took hours to do it — er brauchte ewig lang (inf) or stundenlang dazu
3) pl (of banks, shops etc) Geschäftszeit(en) f(pl); (of pubs, park etc) Öffnungszeiten pl; (of post office) Schalterstunden pl; (= office hours) Dienststunden pl; (= working hours etc) Arbeitszeit f; (of doctor etc) Sprechstunde fout of/after hours (in pubs) — außerhalb der gesetzlich erlaubten Zeit/nach der Polizeistunde; (of school) außerhalb der Unterrichtszeit/nach Schulschluss; (in shops etc) außerhalb der Geschäftszeit(en)/nach Laden- or Geschäftsschluss; (in office etc) außerhalb der Arbeitszeit/nach Dienstschluss; (of doctor etc) außerhalb/nach der Sprechstunde
what are your hours? (shops, pubs etc) — wann haben Sie geöffnet or offen?; (employee) wie ist Ihre Arbeitszeit?
to work long hours — einen langen Arbeitstag haben; (doctors, nurse, policeman etc) lange Dienststunden haben
4) (fig)his hour has come — seine Stunde ist gekommen
the man/hero of the hour — der Mann/Held der Stunde
* * *hour [ˈaʊə(r)] s1. Stunde f:by the hour stundenweise;for hours (and hours) stundenlang;at 14.20 hours um 14 Uhr 20;the clock strikes the hour es schlägt voll;(every hour) on the hour (immer) zur vollen Stunde;10 minutes past the hour 10 Minuten nach der vollen Stunde;twenty-four hours a day rund um die Uhr, Tag und Nacht;an hour from here eine Stunde von hier;sleep till all hours bis in die Puppen schlafen umg;after one hour of play SPORT nach einer Stunde Spielzeit;after hours of preparation nach stundenlanger Vorbereitung;three-hour dreistündig;2. (Tages)Zeit f, Stunde f:what’s the hour? obs wie viel Uhr ist es?;at all hours zu jeder Zeit, jederzeit;at this hour zu dieser Zeit oder Stunde;at what hour? um wie viel Uhr?;at an early hour früh;keep regular hours regelmäßige Zeiten einhalten; → early B 1, eleventh A 1, late A 1, small hours, wee1 B3. Zeitpunkt m, Stunde f:the hour of death die Todesstunde;in my hour of need in der Stunde meiner Not;a) seine Stunde ist gekommen,b) auch his last hour has come, his (last) hour has struck seine letzte Stunde oder sein letztes Stündchen ist gekommen oder hat geschlagen;the hour has come for us to have a serious talk es ist an der Zeit, dass wir uns einmal ernsthaft unterhalten4. Stunde f, Tag m, Gegenwart f:the man of the hour der Mann des Tages;the question of the hour die aktuelle Frage5. pl (Arbeits) Zeit f, (Arbeits-, Dienst-, Geschäfts) Stunden pl:what are your hours? wann haben Sie geöffnet?;a) nach Dienst- oder Geschäftsschluss; nach der Polizeistunde,b) nach der Arbeit,c) fig zu spät;6. SCHULEa) (Schul-, Unterrichts) Stunde fb) UNIV anrechenbare Stunde7. ASTRON, SCHIFF Stunde f (15 Längengrade)8. pl RELa) Gebetsstunden plb) Stundengebete plc) Stundenbuch nh., H. abk1. height H3. hundred4. husband* * *noun1) Stunde, diethe 24-hour or twenty-four-hour clock — die Vierundzwanzigstundenuhr
2) (time o'clock) Zeit, dieat this late hour — zu so später Stunde (geh.)
at all hours — zu jeder [Tages- oder Nacht]zeit; (late at night) spät in der Nacht
the small hours [of the morning] — die frühen Morgenstunden
0100/0200/1700/1800 hours — (on 24-hour clock) 1.00/2.00/17.00/18.00 Uhr
3) in pl.doctor's hours — Sprechstunde, die
during school hours — während der Schulstunden od. des Unterrichts
out of/after hours — (in office, bank, etc.) außerhalb der Dienstzeit; (in shop) außerhalb der Geschäftszeit; (in pub) außerhalb der Ausschankzeit
4) (particular time) Stunde, diethe question etc. of the hour — das Problem usw. der Stunde
5) (distance) Stunde, die* * *n.Stunde -n f. -
16 quarter **** quar·ter
['kwɔːtə(r)]1. n1) (fourth part) quarto, (of year) trimestre m2) Am, (Canada: 25 cents) quarto di dollaro, 25 centesimi3)a quarter of an hour — un quarto d'orait's a quarter to or Am of 3 — sono le 3 meno un quarto, manca un quarto alle 3
it's a quarter past or Am after 3 — sono le 3 e un quarto
4) (district) quartiere m5)from all quarters — da tutte le parti or direzioni6)quarters npl — (accommodation) alloggio, Mil quartiere m, (temporary) alloggiamento
7)2. vt1) (divide into four) dividere in quattro (parti)2) Mil alloggiare -
17 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
18 Anschütz, Ottomar
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 1846 Lissa, Prussia (now Leszno, Poland) d. 1907[br]German photographer, chronophotographer ana inventor.[br]The son of a commercial photographer, Anschütz entered the business in 1868 and developed an interest in the process of instantaneous photography. The process was very difficult with the contemporary wet-plate process, but with the introduction of the much faster dry plates in the late 1870s he was able to make progress. Anschütz designed a focal plane shutter capable of operating at speeds up to 1/1000 of a second in 1883, and patented his design in 1888. it involved a vertically moving fabric roller-blind that worked at a fixed tension but had a slit the width of which could be adjusted to alter the exposure time. This design was adopted by C.P.Goerz, who from 1890 manufactures a number of cameras that incorporated it.Anschütz's action pictures of flying birds and animals attracted the attention of the Prussian authorities, and in 1886 the Chamber of Deputies authorized financial support for him to continue his work, which had started at the Hanover Military Institute in October 1885. Inspired by the work of Eadweard Muybridge in America, Anschütz had set up rows of cameras whose focal-plane shutters were released in sequence by electromagnets, taking twenty-four pictures in about three-quarters of a second. He made a large number of studies of the actions of people, animals and birds, and at the Krupp artillery range at Meppen, near Essen, he recorded shells in flight. His pictures were reproduced, and favourably commented upon, in scientific and photographic journals.To bring the pictures to the public, in 1887 he created the Electro-Tachyscope. The sequence negatives were printed as 90 x 120 mm transparencies and fixed around the circumference of a large steel disc. This was rotated in front of a spirally wound Geissler tube, which produced a momentary brilliant flash of light when a high voltage from an induction coil was applied to it, triggered by contacts on the steel disc. The flash duration, about 1/1000 of a second, was so short that it "froze" each picture as it passed the tube. The pictures succeeded each other at intervals of about 1/30 of a second, and the observer saw an apparently continuously lit moving picture. The Electro-Tachyscope was shown publicly in Berlin at the Kulturministerium from 19 to 21 March 1887; subsequently Siemens \& Halske manufactured 100 machines, which were shown throughout Europe and America in the early 1890s. From 1891 his pictures were available for the home in the form of the Tachyscope viewer, which used the principle of the zoetrope: sequence photographs were printed on long strips of thin card, perforated with narrow slots between the pictures. Placed around the circumference of a shallow cylinder and rotated, the pictures could be seen in life-like movement when viewed through the slots.In November 1894 Anschütz displayed a projector using two picture discs with twelve images each, which through a form of Maltese cross movement were rotated intermittently and alternately while a rotating shutter allowed each picture to blend with the next so that no flicker occurred. The first public shows, given in Berlin, were on a screen 6×8 m (20×26 ft) in size. From 22 February 1895 they were shown regularly to audiences of 300 in a building on the Leipzigstrasse; they were the first projected motion pictures seen in Germany.[br]Further ReadingJ.Deslandes, 1966, Histoire comparée du cinéma, Vol. I, Paris. B.Coe, 1992, Muybridge and the Chronophotographers, London.BC -
19 quarter
I 1. ['kwɔːtə(r)]1) (one fourth) quarto m.2) (15 minutes)3) (three months) trimestre m.4) (district) quartiere m.5) (group) ambiente m., settore m.6) (mercy) lett.7) AE (25 cents) quarto m. di dollaro8) metrol. GB = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 113,4 g; US = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 12,7 kg9) gastr.10) mar.on the starboard quarter — a tribordo o a destra
11) at close quarters da vicino2. 3.1) (25%) quarto m.at (a) quarter to 9 — BE
at a quarter of 9 — AE alle nove meno un quarto
3) (in age)4. 5. II ['kwɔːtə(r)]1) (divide into four) dividere in quattro (parti) [cake, apple]2) (accommodate) acquartierare [ troops]; alloggiare [ people]; trovare un riparo per [ livestock]* * *['kwo:tə] 1. noun1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) quarto2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) (moneta da venticinque centesimi), (quarto di dollaro)3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) quartiere4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) parte, direzione5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) grazia6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) quarto7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) quarto8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) tempo9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) trimestre2. verb1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) dividere in quattro2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) dividere in quattro3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) acquartierare, alloggiare•3. adverb(once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.) trimestralmente4. noun(a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) pubblicazione trimestrale- quarters- quarter-deck
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quartermaster
- at close quarters* * *I 1. ['kwɔːtə(r)]1) (one fourth) quarto m.2) (15 minutes)3) (three months) trimestre m.4) (district) quartiere m.5) (group) ambiente m., settore m.6) (mercy) lett.7) AE (25 cents) quarto m. di dollaro8) metrol. GB = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 113,4 g; US = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 12,7 kg9) gastr.10) mar.on the starboard quarter — a tribordo o a destra
11) at close quarters da vicino2. 3.1) (25%) quarto m.at (a) quarter to 9 — BE
at a quarter of 9 — AE alle nove meno un quarto
3) (in age)4. 5. II ['kwɔːtə(r)]1) (divide into four) dividere in quattro (parti) [cake, apple]2) (accommodate) acquartierare [ troops]; alloggiare [ people]; trovare un riparo per [ livestock] -
20 quarter
['kwo:tə] 1. noun1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) kvart; kvarter; kvartal2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) kvartdollar3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) kvarter; bydel4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) retning5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) nåde6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) stykke; -stykke7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) ny; næ8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) omgang9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) semester2. verb1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) dele i fjerdedele2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) reducere til en fjerdedel3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) indkvartere•3. adverb(once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.) kvartalsvis4. noun(a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) kvartalsskrift- quarters- quarter-deck
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quartermaster
- at close quarters* * *['kwo:tə] 1. noun1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) kvart; kvarter; kvartal2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) kvartdollar3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) kvarter; bydel4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) retning5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) nåde6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) stykke; -stykke7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) ny; næ8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) omgang9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) semester2. verb1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) dele i fjerdedele2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) reducere til en fjerdedel3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) indkvartere•3. adverb(once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.) kvartalsvis4. noun(a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) kvartalsskrift- quarters- quarter-deck
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quartermaster
- at close quarters
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