Quashes

Definition

quarter / 'kwↄ:tǝ(r) / n ၁။ [C] ေလးပံုတစ္ပံု။ a quarter of a mile ❍ The programme lasted (for) an hour and a quarter (ie 75 minutes). ❍ Cut the apples into quarters. ❍ About three quarters of the theatre was full. ❍ HALF n ၂။ [C] ၁၅မိနစ္ (အလို /အေက်ာ္)။ မတ္တင္း (သို႔) တစ္ မတ္။ It's (a) quarter to/ ( US ) of four now __ I'll meet you at quarter past/ ( US ) after. ၃။ [C] သံုးလပတ္ကာလ။ The rent is due at the end of each quarter. ❍ Our gas bill for the last quarter was unusually high. ❍ Sales are up 10% on the same quarter last year. ၄။ [C] (က) အရပ္။ Her travels had taken her to all quarters of the globe. (ခ) ၿမိဳ႕နယ္။ ရပ္ကြက္။ a residential quarter ❍ the historic quarter of the city. ၅။ [C] ေနရာ။ As her mother has always been against the idea, she could expect no help from that quarter. ❍ Support for the scheme has come from some unexpected quarters. ၆။ [C] (US) ၂၅ဆင့္ အေႂကြေစ့။ It'll cost you a quarter. ❍ CENT 1 ၇။ [C] လဆန္းပကၡဦးပိုင္း (သို႔) လဆုတ္ပကၡ ေႏွာင္းပိုင္း။ The moon is in its first/ last quarter. ၈။ [C usu sing ] သေဘၤာ၏ပဲ့ပိုင္း။ on the port/ starboard quarter. ၉။ [C] ( UK ) (၂၈)ေပါင္ခ်ိန္ဝန္။ ( US ) (၂၅)ေပါင္ ခ်ိန္ဝန္။ ကြာတ။ ၁၀။ quarters [pl] ရပ္ကြက္။ တန္း။ စု။ live in married quarters ❍ move to more comfortable living quarters. ၁၁။ [U] ( dated or fml ) ခ်မ္းသာရာ။ His business rivals knew they could expect no quarter from such a ruthless adversary. v ၁။ ေလးပိုင္းပိုင္းသည္။ ေလးစိတ္စိတ္သည္။ peel and quarter an apple. ၂။ ေနရာခ်ထားသည္။ troops quartered in a nearby village. ❏ quarter day n ( Brit ) သံုးလတစ္ႀကိမ္ ေငြေပးသြင္းရမည့္ ပထမေန႔။ ❏ quarter- final n အႀကိဳဗိုလ္လုပြဲ မတိုင္မီအဆင့္။ ကြာတား ဖိုင္နယ္။ ❏ quarter-note n ( US ) = CROTCHET ❏ quarter sessions n [pl] အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု အခ်ဳိ႕နယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ယခင္ၿဗိတိန္တြင္ သံုးလတစ္ႀကိမ္ ႐ံုးထိုင္ေသာ ရာဇဝတ္တရား႐ံုး။

Examples

1. [quarter of] : Over a quarter of our income goes on food.
2. Nearly three quarters of the children were ill.
3. They arrived at a quarter past three.
4. The company’s profits fell in the third quarter.
5. The Chinese quarter of the city
6. A house in the student quarter
7. [in some quarters] : Concern has been expressed in some quarters about this policy.
8. [from all quarters] : He has won support from all quarters.
9. [from this/that quarter] : I knew there would be a lot of trouble from that quarter.
10. [quarter of] : Can you buy me a quarter of ham?
11. [give/get no quarter] : Any man found breaking the rules would be given absolutely no quarter.