Ward vs. Quarter

Wardnoun

A guard; a guardian or watchman.

Quarteradjective

Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.

Wardnoun

Protection, defence.

Quarteradjective

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

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

Wardnoun

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

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.’;

Wardnoun

The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).

Quarternoun

Any fourth of something, particularly:

Wardnoun

Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

Land tenure through military service.

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

Wardnoun

(fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

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

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.

Wardnoun

A section or subdivision of a prison.

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

An administrative division of a borough, city or council.

‘On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace.’;

Quarternoun

quarterfinal

Wardnoun

(UK) A division of a forest.

Quarternoun

Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly:

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

(usually plural) A living place, from which:

Wardnoun

A person under guardianship.

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

A minor looked after by a guardian.

‘After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.’;

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

(obsolete) An underage orphan.

Quarterverb

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

Wardnoun

An object used for guarding.

Quarterverb

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

‘Quarter the horses in the third stable.’;

Wardnoun

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

Quarterverb

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

Wardverb

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

Quarterverb

(transitive) To quartersaw.

Wardverb

(transitive) To defend, to protect.

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.

Wardverb

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

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.’;

Wardverb

(intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.

Quarternoun

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

Wardverb

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

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.’;

Wardnoun

The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.

‘Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.’;

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.’;

Wardnoun

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

‘For the best ward of mine honor.’; ‘The assieged castle's wardTheir steadfast stands did mightily maintain.’; ‘For want of other ward,He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.’;

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.’;

Wardnoun

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

‘And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard.’; ‘I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward.’; ‘It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.’;

Quarterverb

To divide into four equal parts.

Wardnoun

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

Quarterverb

To divide; to separate into parts or regions.

‘Then sailors quartered heaven.’;

Wardnoun

One who, or that which, is guarded.

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.’;

Wardnoun

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

Quarterverb

To furnish as a portion; to allot.

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

Wardnoun

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.

‘The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.’;

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.

Wardnoun

A division of a county.

Quarterverb

To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

Wardnoun

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

‘Throughout the trembling city placed a guard,Dealing an equal share to every ward.’;

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.’;

Wardnoun

A division of a forest.

Quarternoun

one of four equal parts;

‘a quarter of a pound’;

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

a district of a city having some distinguishing character;

‘the Latin Quarter’;

Wardverb

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

‘Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wightTo ward the same.’;

Quarternoun

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

‘both teams scored in the first quarter’;

Wardverb

To defend; to protect.

‘Tell him it was a hand that warded himFrom thousand dangers.’;

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’;

Wardverb

To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.

Quarternoun

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

‘the fall quarter ends at Christmas’;

Wardverb

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

‘Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.’; ‘The pointed javelin warded off his rage.’; ‘It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.’;

Quarternoun

a fourth part of a year; three months;

‘unemployment fell during the last quarter’;

Wardverb

To be vigilant; to keep guard.

Quarternoun

one of the four major division of the compass;

‘the wind is coming from that quarter’;

Wardverb

To act on the defensive with a weapon.

‘She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back.’;

Quarternoun

a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar;

‘he fed four quarters into the slot machine’;

Wardnoun

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

‘they put her in a 4-bed ward’;

Quarternoun

an unspecified person;

‘he dropped a word in the right quarter’;

Wardnoun

English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)

Quarternoun

the rear part of a ship

Wardnoun

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

Quarternoun

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

Wardnoun

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

Quarterverb

provide housing for (military personnel)

Wardnoun

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

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’;

Wardverb

watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect;

‘guard my possessions while I'm away’;

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.