A quarter means dividing something into four equal parts. We can use it for time, numbers, or any object you can divide into four pieces.
I ate a quarter of the cake.
A quarter of the hour is fifteen minutes.
Quarter means one of the four parts of a year. Each part has three months. It is used in business and school time to divide the year.
Our school breaks last one quarter.
The company reports sales each quarter.
Quarter is a small coin worth 25 cents. People use it in some countries for buying things or using machines like parking meters.
I found a quarter on the floor.
You need a quarter to use the machine.
Quarter means an area in a city where people live or work. Sometimes, it means a special part of the city with unique buildings or shops.
The old quarter has many small shops.
She lives in the student quarter downtown.
As a verb, quarter means to give a place to stay or live to people, often for soldiers or visitors. It means providing shelter or rooms.
The army quartered the soldiers in tents.
We quarter guests in the spare rooms.
To quarter something means to cut or divide it into four equal parts. People often use this with food or land.
Please quarter the cake into four pieces.
They quartered the land to sell.
In sports like American football, a quarter is one of four equal parts of the game time. Each quarter lets the teams play a part of the match.
The team scored in the last quarter.
The game has four quarters each lasting 15 minutes.
Quarter was once a coin in the UK. It was worth one fourth of a shilling and is now old money not used today.
The quarter was used long ago in England.
She collects quarters from old coin sets.
