quarter

/ˈkwɔːr.t̬ɚ/

意味: 4分の1、地区

例文: The family walked in the old quarter.
　　  家族は旧市街を歩いた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: quarter hour(15分), quarter century(25年), quarter final(準決勝)

定義: 4分の1、25セント硬貨、3か月の期間、1年の4分の1、4つに分けた部分の1つ、アメリカやカナダで使われる25セントの硬貨、または1年を4つに分けた期間のことを指します。

quarterは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: one of four equal parts
Noun: a district of a city having some distinguishing character
Noun: (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
Noun: a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
Noun: one of four periods into which the school year is divided
Noun: a fourth part of a year; three months
Noun: one of the four major division of the compass
Noun: a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
Noun: a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
Noun: a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
Noun: an unspecified person
Noun: the rear part of a ship
Noun: piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
Noun: clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
Verb: provide housing for (military personnel)
Verb: pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
Verb: divide into quarters
Verb: divide by four; divide into quarters

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

I found a shiny quarter on the sidewalk.(歩道で光る25セント硬貨を見つけた。)
The meeting starts in the first quarter of the year.(会議は年の最初の四半期に始まる。)
She ate a quarter of the pizza by herself.(彼女はピザの4分の1を一人で食べた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: a quarter of a pound
Noun: the Latin Quarter
Noun: both teams scored in the first quarter
Noun: it’s a quarter til 4
Noun: a quarter after 4 o’clock
Noun: the fall quarter ends at Christmas
Noun: unemployment fell during the last quarter
Noun: the wind is coming from that quarter
Noun: he fed four quarters into the slot machine
Noun: he dropped a word in the right quarter
Noun: he surrendered but asked for quarter
Verb: in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes
Verb: quarter an apple

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): after part, billet, canton, draw, draw and quarter, fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, poop, quarter, quartern, stern, tail, twenty-five percent

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): avoirdupois unit, british capacity unit, city district, clemency, coin, common fraction, divide, kill, lodge, orientation, part, person, piece of leather, rear, school term, segment, time period, time unit

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, air alert, amateur, amerindian, amnesty, ancient, anomaly, anti, anti-american, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, arrogator, assassinate, assessee, asthmatic, attitude, attosecond, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, barbary coast, barrack, barrel, bather, bawbee, beard, bedfellow, beginning, bell, bereaved, best, bezant, bimester, bimillennium, birth, biter, black, blogger, blond, bluecoat, bodybuilder, bomber, bout, brain, bronze age, brunet, bullfighter, bushel, business district, buster, butcher, calendar day, calendar month, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, case, cashier, celebrant, censor, century, chaldron, chameleon, change, changer, charmer, child, chukker, chutzpanik, closer, clotting time, clumsy person, collector, color-blind person, combat zone, combatant, commit suicide, commoner, communicator, commutation, complexifier, component, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, counter, counterterrorist, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, cripple, crown, dancer, dawn, day, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, decade, decapitate, decimate, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, denier, destroy, dieter, differentiator, dime, disentangler, dismember, dispatch, disputant, dissenter, divider, dog days, dollar, domestic partner, double, double eagle, doubloon, downtime, dram, draw, dresser, dribbler, drought, drown, drug user, ducat, duration, dyslectic, eagle, ectomorph, effecter, eightpence, elapsed time, electrocute, eliminate, elizabethan, emotional person, end, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enlistment, enrollee, enterprise zone, entertainer, era, erase, ethnic, eve, evening, execute, experimenter, expert, explorer, exterminate, extrovert, face, faddist, faller, farthing, fastener, female, femtosecond, festival, fiduciary, field day, final period, firkin, first period, first-rater, fivepence, flower, fluidounce, fluidram, follower, fortnight, fourpence, frame, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gallon, gambler, game, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, generation, gentile, ghetto, gill, golden age, good guy, good person, grain, granter, great year, greeter, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, guinea, half, half crown, half dollar, half eagle, half life, half pound, half-century, half-hour, halfpenny, halve, handicapped person, hater, heterosexual, high point, hogshead, homosexual, homunculus, honeymoon, hope, hoper, horizontal, hospitalization, hour, hours, huddler, hugger, hundredweight, immune, impale, incubation period, indian summer, indiction, individualist, inhabitant, inning, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, iron age, jat, jew, jewel, jumper, junior, juvenile, keep, kilderkin, killer, kiloton, kink, kneeler, knocker, knower, lactation, large person, latin, laugher, leader, learner, lease, left-hander, leo, libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liver, long run, long time, long ton, longer, loose cannon, louis d’or, loved one, lover, lustrum, lynch, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, manipulator, married, martyr, massacre, masturbator, maundy money, mean time, measurer, medallion, megaton, mesomorph, mestizo, microsecond, mid-april, mid-august, mid-december, mid-february, mid-january, mid-july, mid-june, mid-march, mid-may, mid-november, mid-october, mid-september, middle, middlebrow, midweek, midwinter, millennium, millisecond, minim, minute, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, month, morning, mother hen, mouse, multistage, murder, mutilator, namer, namesake, nanosecond, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, neutralize, nickel, night, ninepence, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, novitiate, nude, nurser, occultist, occupation, olympiad, one-billionth, one-eighth, one-fifth, one-fourth, one-half, one-hundred-millionth, one-hundred-thousandth, one-hundredth, one-millionth, one-ninth, one-quadrillionth, one-quintillionth, one-seventh, one-sixteenth, one-sixth, one-sixtieth, one-sixty-fourth, one-ten-thousandth, one-tenth, one-third, one-thirty-second, one-thousandth, one-trillionth, one-twelfth, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ounce, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, outskirt, over, overlie, overtime, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, past, peacetime, peck, peer, penny, perceiver, percher, period, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, phase, phase of the moon, philosopher, picker, picosecond, piece of eight, pint, pisces, pisser, planner, player, poison, posturer, pound, powderer, precinct, precursor, prehistory, preserver, primitive, prohibition, propositus, public relations person, puerperium, pursuer, pussycat, put away, quadrennium, quart, quarter, quarter pound, quarter-century, quarter-hour, question time, quinquennium, quitter, radical, rainy day, real, real time, realist, rectifier, red-light district, redhead, registrant, regulation time, reign, relative, reliever, religious person, repeater, reprieve, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, run, running time, rusher, saber, sacrifice, saddle, sagittarius, school, scientist, scorpio, scratcher, season, second, second period, second-rater, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, semester, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, shed blood, shelf life, shilling, shoot, short ton, showman, sidereal day, signer, silly season, silver age, simpleton, six-footer, sixpence, skidder, slav, slave, sleep, sleepyhead, sloucher, slug, slum, small person, smasher, smiler, smother, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sou, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stater, stern, stifler, stigmatic, stone, stooper, stranger, strangle, struggler, study hall, subject, summer school, supernumerary, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, syllabify, tagger, tail, take off, tapper, taurus, tempter, tenpence, term, termer, terrestrial time, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, three-fourths, threepence, thrower, tide, tiger, time, time frame, time limit, time of life, time off, times, tomahawk, totemist, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, travel time, traveler, trial period, trier, trimester, turf, turn, turner, two-thirds, twopence, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, upper, uptime, usance, user, vamp, vanisher, vertical, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, wartime, watch, watcher, waterfront, weakling, weasel, week, weekend, white, wiggler, window, winker, withholder, witness, work time, worker, worldling, yawner, year, youth, zap

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): barrio, ghetto, kasbah, medina, skid road

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: billet, cantonment, quarter, quartering, quarterly, quarters

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: education, science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, education

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: