Season vs. Quarter

Seasonnoun

Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter

Quarteradjective

Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.

Seasonnoun

A part of a year when something particular happens

‘mating season’; ‘the rainy season’; ‘the football season’;

Quarteradjective

(chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).

‘a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound’;

Seasonnoun

(obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.

Quarteradjective

(chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.

‘A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.’; ‘A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.’;

Seasonnoun

(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.

Quarternoun

Any fourth of something, particularly:

Seasonnoun

A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

‘The third season of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997.’;

Quarternoun

A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.

Seasonnoun

(archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.

Quarternoun

A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season.

Seasonnoun

(video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.

Quarternoun

(historical) The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for measures of wine, ale, and grain

Seasonnoun

(video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.

Quarternoun

(historical) The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade

Seasonverb

(transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

Quarternoun

(historical) The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year.

Seasonverb

(transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure

‘to season oneself to a climate’;

Quarternoun

(heraldry) A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.

Seasonverb

(transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices

‘The timber needs to be seasoned.’;

Quarternoun

(basketball) A period into which a game is divided. usually 8, 10 or 12 minutes according to the rules.

Seasonverb

(intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

Quarternoun

quarterfinal

Seasonverb

(intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance

‘The wood has seasoned in the sun.’;

Quarternoun

Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly:

Seasonverb

(obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.

Quarternoun

A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole.

Seasonnoun

One of the divisions of the year, marked by alterations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, - the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, - the dry and the rainy.

‘The several seasons of the year in their beauty.’;

Quarternoun

(usually plural) A living place, from which:

Seasonnoun

Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.

‘The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs.’;

Quarternoun

The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.

Seasonnoun

A period of time not very long; a while; a time.

‘Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.’;

Quarternoun

(nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.

Seasonnoun

That which gives relish; seasoning.

‘You lack the season of all natures, sleep.’;

Quarterverb

(transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

Seasonverb

To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.

‘He is fit and seasoned for his passage.’;

Quarterverb

(transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.

‘Quarter the horses in the third stable.’;

Seasonverb

To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.

Quarterverb

(intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

Seasonverb

Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.

Quarterverb

(transitive) To quartersaw.

Seasonverb

To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.

Quarterverb

(obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

Seasonverb

Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable.

‘You season still with sports your serious hours.’; ‘The proper use of wit is to season conversation.’;

Quarternoun

One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc.

‘Scouts each coast light-armed scour,Each quarter, to descry the distant foe.’;

Seasonverb

To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.

Quarternoun

A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.

Seasonverb

To imbue; to tinge or taint.

‘Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles.’;

Quarternoun

Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.

‘Swift to their several quarters hasted thenThe cumbrous elements.’; ‘The banter turned as to what quarters each would find.’;

Seasonverb

To copulate with; to impregnate.

Quarternoun

A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters.

‘He magnified his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives.’; ‘Cocks and lambs . . . at the mercy of cats and wolves . . . must never expect better quarter.’;

Seasonverb

To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

Quarternoun

Friendship; amity; concord.

‘In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom.’; ‘I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves.’;

Seasonverb

To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.

Quarterverb

To divide into four equal parts.

Seasonverb

To give token; to savor.

Quarterverb

To divide; to separate into parts or regions.

‘Then sailors quartered heaven.’;

Seasonnoun

a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field;

‘he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company’; ‘she always looked forward to the avocado season’;

Quarterverb

To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers.

‘They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.’;

Seasonnoun

one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions;

‘the regular sequence of the seasons’;

Quarterverb

To furnish as a portion; to allot.

‘This isle . . . He quarters to his blue-haired deities.’;

Seasonnoun

a recurrent time marked by major holidays;

‘it was the Christmas season’;

Quarterverb

To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms.

Seasonverb

lend flavor to;

‘Season the chicken breast after roasting it’;

Quarterverb

To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

Seasonverb

make fit;

‘This trip will season even the hardiest traveller’;

Quarterverb

To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

‘Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering.’;

Seasonverb

make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;

‘she tempered her criticism’;

Quarternoun

one of four equal parts;

‘a quarter of a pound’;

Seasonnoun

each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.

Quarternoun

a district of a city having some distinguishing character;

‘the Latin Quarter’;

Seasonnoun

a period of the year characterized by a particular climatic feature or marked by a particular activity, event, or festivity

‘the season for gathering pine needles’; ‘the rainy season’;

Quarternoun

one of four periods of play into which some games are divided;

‘both teams scored in the first quarter’;

Seasonnoun

a fixed time in the year when a particular sporting activity is pursued

‘the English cricket season is almost upon us’;

Quarternoun

a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour;

‘it's a quarter til 4’; ‘a quarter after 4 o'clock’;

Seasonnoun

the time of year when a particular fruit, vegetable, or other food is plentiful and in good condition

‘the pies are made with fruit that is in season’; ‘new season's lamb’;

Quarternoun

one of four periods into which the school year is divided;

‘the fall quarter ends at Christmas’;

Seasonnoun

a time of year traditionally adopted by the English upper classes for a series of fashionable social events.

Quarternoun

a fourth part of a year; three months;

‘unemployment fell during the last quarter’;

Seasonnoun

a proper or suitable time

‘to everything there is a season’;

Quarternoun

one of the four major division of the compass;

‘the wind is coming from that quarter’;

Seasonnoun

an indefinite or unspecified period of time; a while

‘this most beautiful soul; who walked with me for a season in this world’;

Quarternoun

a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

Seasonnoun

a set or sequence of related television programmes; a series

‘the first two seasons of the show’;

Quarternoun

a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

Seasonnoun

a period when a female mammal is ready to mate

‘the bitch can come into season at irregular intervals’;

Quarternoun

a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar;

‘he fed four quarters into the slot machine’;

Seasonverb

add salt, herbs, pepper, or other spices to (food)

‘season the soup to taste with salt and pepper’;

Quarternoun

an unspecified person;

‘he dropped a word in the right quarter’;

Seasonverb

add a quality or feature to (something), especially so as to make it more lively or exciting

‘his conversation is seasoned liberally with exclamation points and punch lines’;

Quarternoun

the rear part of a ship

Seasonverb

make (wood) suitable for use as timber by adjusting its moisture content to that of the environment in which it will be used

‘I collect and season most of my wood’;

Quarternoun

piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp

Season

A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of Earth's orbit around the Sun and Earth's axial tilt relative to the ecliptic plane.

Quarterverb

provide housing for (military personnel)

Quarterverb

pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

‘in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes’;

Quarterverb

divide into quarters;

‘quarter an apple’;

Quarterverb

divide by four; divide into quarters

Quarternoun

each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided

‘a page and a quarter’; ‘a quarter of a mile’; ‘she cut each apple into quarters’;

Quarternoun

a period of three months regarded as one fourth of a year, used especially in reference to financial transactions such as the payment of bills or a company's earnings

‘the first quarter of the fiscal year’;

Quarternoun

a period of fifteen minutes or a point of time marking the transition from one fifteen-minute period to the next

‘he sat with his pint until a quarter past nine’;

Quarternoun

a coin representing 25 cents, a quarter of a US or Canadian dollar.

Quarternoun

each of the four parts into which an animal's or bird's carcass may be divided, each including a leg or wing.

Quarternoun

one fourth of a lunar month.

Quarternoun

(in basketball, American football, and Australian Rules) each of four equal periods into which a game is divided

‘there were four scores in the opening quarter’;

Quarternoun

one of four terms into which a school or university year may be divided.

Quarternoun

one fourth of a pound weight (avoirdupois, equal to 4 ounces).

Quarternoun

one fourth of a hundredweight (in the UK 28 lb or in the US 25lb).

Quarternoun

a grain measure equivalent to 8 bushels.

Quarternoun

the haunches or hindquarters of a horse

‘they have strong, muscular quarters’;

Quarternoun

a part of a town or city having a particular character or use

‘a beautiful port city with a fascinating medieval quarter’;

Quarternoun

the direction of one of the points of the compass, especially as a direction from which the wind blows.

Quarternoun

a particular but unspecified person, group of people, or area

‘we have just had help from an unexpected quarter’;

Quarternoun

either side of a ship aft of the beam

‘he trained his glasses over the starboard quarter’;

Quarternoun

rooms or lodgings, especially those allocated to people in military or domestic service

‘they lived in RAF married quarters’;

Quarternoun

pity or mercy shown towards an enemy or opponent who is in one's power

‘the riot squad gave no quarter’;

Quarternoun

each of four or more roughly equal divisions of a shield separated by vertical and horizontal lines.

Quarternoun

a square charge which covers the top left (dexter chief) quarter of the field.

Quarterverb

divide into four equal or corresponding parts

‘peel and quarter the bananas’;

Quarterverb

cut (the body of an executed person) into four parts

‘the plotters were hanged, drawn, and quartered’;

Quarterverb

cut (a log) into quarters, and these into planks so as to show the grain well.

Quarterverb

be stationed or lodged in a specified place

‘many were quartered in tents’;

Quarterverb

impose someone on (another person) as a lodger

‘you would have had her quartered on you forever’;

Quarterverb

range over or traverse (an area) in every direction

‘we watched a pair of kingfishers quartering the river looking for minnows’;

Quarterverb

move at an angle; go in a diagonal or zigzag direction

‘his young dog quartered back and forth in quick turns’;

Quarterverb

display (different coats of arms) in quarters of a shield, especially to show arms inherited from heiresses who have married into the bearer's family

‘Edward III quartered the French royal arms with his own’;

Quarterverb

divide (a shield) into four or more parts by vertical and horizontal lines.