pristojno mesto

1) (any public place in which discussions take place, speeches are made etc: In modern times the television studio is as much a forum for public opinion as the market-places of ancient Rome used to be.) forum

2) (a market-place in ancient Roman cities and towns.) forum

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pristojna oblast, pristojno mesto; sodišče

1) (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.) četrtina

2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) 25 centov

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.) četrt

4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) smer

5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) milost

6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) del živali

7) (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.) krajec

8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) četrtina

9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) četrtletje

1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) razrezati na štiri dele

2) (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.) razdeliti na štiri dele

3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) nastaniti

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- quarterly

- quarters

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četrtina, četrt ( a quarter of an hour četrt ure; for quarter the price, for a quarter of fhe price za četrtino cene); četrtina funta (0,113 kg); četrtina milje, tek na četrt milje ( he won the ŋ zmagal je v teku na četrt milje); mera za tkanine, četrtina jarda (22,8 cm); trgovska mera, četrtina stota (28 funtov, 12,7 kg, American 2ɜ funtov, 11,ʌɔ kg; British English 2,91 hl); American Scottish šolsko četrtletje; četrtletje, kvartal; četrtina zaklane živali, ena od štirih nog, hrbet konja; heraldry eno od štirih polj grba; astronomy lunin krajec ( first ŋ prvi krajec, last ŋ zadnji krajec); American četrt dolarja, novec za 25 centov; mestna četrt, kvart ( residential ŋ stanovanjska četrt); stran neba, smer vetra (what quarter is the wind in? iz katere strani piha?, figuratively od kje piha veter?); predel, kraj ( in this ŋ v teh krajih), smer ( in that ŋ v ono smer), stran ( from another ŋ z druge strani); vir ( from a good ŋ iz dobrega vira); družbeni krog ( in government ŋs v vladnih krogih); usnje za peto (čevlja); technical ɔ palce širok kos lesa (v tesarstvu); military (zlasti plural) stan, bivališče ( to be confined to ŋs biti v hišnem priporu); (zlasti military) milost, prizanašanje, pomilostitev ( to find no quarter with ne najti milosti pri); nautical bok krme ( on the port ŋ na levi strani krme); nautical borbeni položaj posadke ( to beat to ŋs sklicati posadko na položaje)

to ask ( —ali call, cry) for quarter — prositi za milost

to give quarter — izkazati milost, pomilostiti

to give fair quarter — prizanesti

a bad quarter of an hour — neprijetni trenutki

at close quarters — od blizu, v neposrednem stiku (spopadu)

to live in close quarters — stanovati na tesnem

from every quarter — ali from all quarters — od vseh strani

hind quarters — stegna

high quarters — višji krogi

it has gone the quarter — ura je odbila četrt

the proper quarter — pristojno mesto

to take up one's quarters — nastaniti se

to beat up the quarters of — pogosto obiskovati

razdeliti na štiri dele; razkosati, razčetveriti (izdajalca); heraldry razdeliti na štiri polja (grb); vzeti pod streho; military (prisilno) nastaniti (at, in a place; to be ŋed at (in) stanovati kje); pretakniti, preiskati teren (lovski psi); nautical določiti borbeni položaj posadke;

stanovati, živeti (at pri); tekati sem in tja (psi)

figuratively to quarter o.s. on s.o. — vseliti se pri kom