Ward vs. Quarter — What's the Difference?

A room in a hospital usually holding six or more patients.

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

A division in a hospital for the care of a particular group of patients

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

A division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes.

The haunches or hindquarters of a horse

A district of some English and Scottish counties corresponding roughly to the hundred or the wapentake.

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

One of the divisions of a penal institution, such as a prison.

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

An open court or area of a castle or fortification enclosed by walls.

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

(Law) A minor or a person deemed legally incompetent.

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

A person under the protection or care of another.

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

The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship.

Divide into four equal or corresponding parts

The act of keeping watch or being a lookout.

Be stationed or lodged in a specified place

The state of being under guard; custody.

Range over or traverse (an area) in every direction

A defensive movement or attitude, especially in fencing; a guard.

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

The projecting ridge of a lock or keyhole that prevents the turning or insertion of a key other than the proper one.

One of four equal parts.

The notch cut into a key that corresponds to such a ridge.

A coin equal to one fourth of the dollar of the United States and Canada.

To guard; protect.

One fourth of an hour; 15 minutes.

A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.

One fourth of a year; three months

Protection, defence.

An academic term lasting approximately three months.

(obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.

One fourth of the period of the moon's revolution around Earth.

The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance keep ward etc.}}

One of the two phases of the moon at which the moon, as viewed from Earth, appears to be half illuminated by the sun. The quarter phases mark the quarter and three-quarter points of the moon's revolution about the Earth.

Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

(Sports) One of four equal periods of playing time into which some games, such as football and basketball, are divided.

An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.

One fourth of a yard; nine inches.

Land tenure through military service.

One fourth of a mile; two furlongs.

(fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.

One fourth of a pound; four ounces.

A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.

One fourth of a ton; 500 pounds. Used as a measure of grain.

An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.

Chiefly British A measure of grain equal to approximately eight bushels.

A section or subdivision of a prison.

One fourth of a hundredweight; 25 pounds.

An administrative division of a borough, city or council.

One fourth of a British hundredweight; 28 pounds.

(UK) A division of a forest.

One of the four major divisions of the compass.

(Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.

One fourth of the distance between any two of the 32 divisions of the compass.

A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.

One of the four major divisions of the horizon as determined by the four major points of the compass.

A person under guardianship.

A region or an area of the earth thought of as falling into such a specific division of the compass.

A minor looked after by a guardian.

(Nautical) The general direction on either side of a ship located 45° off the stern.

(obsolete) An underage orphan.

The upper portion of the after side of a ship, usually between the aftermost mast and the stern.

An object used for guarding.

The part of a yard between the slings and the yardarm.

The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.

(Heraldry) Any of four equal divisions of a shield.

(transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.

One leg of an animal's carcass, usually including the adjoining parts.

(transitive) To defend, to protect.

Either side of a horse's hoof.

(transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches off}}

The part of the side of a shoe between the heel and the vamp.

(intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.

Quarters A place of residence, especially the buildings or barracks used to house military personnel or their dependents.

(intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Often quarters A proper or assigned station or place, as for officers and crew on a warship.

One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.

Often Quarter A specific district or section, as of a city

The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.

Often quarters An unspecified person or group

A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.

Mercy or clemency, especially when displayed or given to an enemy.

One who, or that which, is guarded.

Being one of four equal or equivalent parts.

A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.

Being one fourth of a standard or usual value.

A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.

To divide into four equal or equivalent parts.

A division of a county.

To quartersaw.

A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.

To divide or separate into a number of parts.

A division of a forest.

To dismember (a human body) into four parts.

A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

(Heraldry) To divide (a shield) into four equal areas with vertical and horizontal lines.

To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.

To mark or place (holes, for example) a fourth of a circle apart.

To defend; to protect.

To locate and adjust (one machine part) at right angles to its connecting part within the machine.

To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.

To furnish with housing

To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; - usually followed by off.

To traverse (an area of ground) laterally back and forth while slowly advancing forward.

To be vigilant; to keep guard.

To take up or be assigned lodgings.

To act on the defensive with a weapon.

To cover an area of ground by ranging over it from side to side.

A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another

A fourth part of something.

A district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections

(in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.

Block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care;

A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.

English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.

English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)

(historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.

United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)

A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.

A division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)

A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.

Watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect;

(time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.

A fourth part of a hundredweight.

(heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, 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.

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

(sport) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.

A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.

Place or position.

A region or place.

Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.

A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.

One's residence or dwelling-place; in plural rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.

A topic or area of endeavour.

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

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

(often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.

(obsolete) Relations between people.

Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.

Short forms.

A quarterback.

A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant.

A quarterfinal.

Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.

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

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

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

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

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

(transitive) To quartersaw.

(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.

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.

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

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

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

Friendship; amity; concord.

To divide into four equal parts.

To divide; to separate into parts or regions.

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.

To furnish as a portion; to allot.

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

To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

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.

One of four equal parts;

A district of a city having some distinguishing character;

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

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

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

A fourth part of a year; three months;

One of the four major division of the compass;

A quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

A quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

A United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar;

An unspecified person;

The rear part of a ship

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

Provide housing for (military personnel)

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

Divide into quarters;

Divide by four; divide into quarters