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Definition: Fourth |
FourthAdjective1. Coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present". Adverb1. In the fourth place; "fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month". Noun1. Following the third position; number four in a countable series. 2. One of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound". 3. The musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fourth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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(3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries)
Events
Significant persons
- Definitive declaration of biblical canon: Council of Carthage
- Demotic is replaced by Greek
- Constantine I ends persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. Christianity is made the official religion of the Empire. The Roman Empire's seat of government is moved to Constantinople.
- Destruction of the Roman Army at the Battle of Adrianople in 378
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman Historian
- Emperor Constantine I
- Saint Martin of Tours
Decades and Years
290s 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300s 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310s 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320s 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330s 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340s 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350s 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360s 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370s 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380s 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390s 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400s 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "4th century."
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The Council of Chalcedon took place from October 8 - November 1, 451 A.D at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor. It is the fourth of the first seven Ecumenical Councils in Christianity, and is therefore recognized as infallible in its dogmatic definitions by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. It set forth the Chalcedonian Creed, which describes the full humanity and full divinity of Jesus Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Ecumenical councils after the seventh are recognized as infallible only by Roman Catholics.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Council of Chalcedon."
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Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilersFictional time period from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth.
Ages: Third Age - Fourth Age - (no more ages)
The Fourth Age began after Sauron was finally defeated, when his Ruling Ring was destroyed, and the Ring Bearers left Middle-earth for the Uttermost West.
The literature does not provide information on more than the first few centuries of this age, so we don't know when it ended, if it ever did.
This age was (presumably) marked by the recovery of the Númenorean kingdoms in exile (Arnor and Gondor), the final ascent of Men and the total wane of the Elves.
Tolkien said that he thought the distance between the end of the Third Age and the 20th century was about 6000 years, and that in 1958 it should have been around the end of the Fifth Age if the Fourth and Fifth Ages were about the same length as the Second and Third Ages. He said, however, that he believed the Ages had quickened and that it was about the end of the Sixth Age/beginning of the Seventh. That implies that maybe the fall of Nazi Germany ended the Sixth Age in 1945, as the other ages ended with the downfalls of tyrants. The estimation of 6000 years would place the end of the Third Age and the start of the Fourth in the 5th millennium BC.
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Amendment IV (the Fourth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, states:The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Analysis
In the United States, the Fourth Amendment remains a powerful protection that its citizens use to guard against abuse of police power. Often a criminal trial will depend on a particular piece of evidence. If this evidence is gathered by the police in a way that violates the Fourth Amendment, then the judge will exclude the evidence from the trial. This often leads to the acquittal of the defendant. The effect is to provide a strong incentive to every police officer in the United States to understand and apply the search and seizure rules of the Fourth Amendment.
The courts' interpretation of the Fourth Amendment changes over time, and the rules on the exclusion of evidence often seem subjective and dependent on the circumstances. At one extreme, evidence is clearly admissible if it is in clear sight of a policeman walking down the street. At the other extreme, evidence is clearly inadmissible if a policeman opens the door of a random house, searches it without a warrant or other legal authorization, and seizes the evidence. Between these two extremes, one can imagine countless scenarios which are less clear-cut, so the courts have adopted various standards of "probable cause" and "reasonableness" in deciding whether a particular search or seizure violates the Fourth Amendment.
External Link
- Amendment Text and Annotations on FindLaw.com
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Fourth United States Congress
1795-1796
This congress has convened in Philadelphia.
Third United States Congress United States Congress Fifth United States Congress Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fourth United States Congress."
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The String Quartet No. 4 by Béla Bartók was written from July to September, 1928 in Budapest.The work is in five movements:
This work, like the String Quartet No. 5, and several other pieces by Bartók, is in a so-called "arch" structure - the first movement is thematically related to the last, and the second to the fourth with the third movement standing alone.
- Allegro
- Prestissimo, con sordino
- Non troppo lento
- Allegretto pizzicato
- Allegro molto
The quartet employs a similar harmonic language to that of the String Quartet No. 3, and like that work, it has been suggested that Bartók was influenced in writing this by Alban Berg's Lyric Suite (1926) which he had heard in 1927.
The quartet employs a number of extended instrumental techniques: for the whole of the second movement all four instruments are played with mutess, while the entire fourth movement is played pizzicato. In the third movement, Bartók sometimes indicates held notes to be played without vibrato, and in various places he asks for glissandi (sliding from one note to another) and so-called Bartók pizzicati (a pizzicato where the string rebounds against the instrument's fingerboard).
The work is dedicated to the Pro Arte Quartet but the first public performance of the work was given by the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet in Budapest on March 20, 1929. It was first published in the same year by Universal Edition.
Further reading
- Leo Treitler, "Harmonic procedure in the Fourth Quartet of Bartók" in the Journal of Music Theory (November 1959)
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Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is a British actor, mainly associated with the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played for seven years.Baker was born in Liverpool, to a poor Roman Catholic family, and left school to become a novice monk. He remained in the monastic life for six years, but left and went into the Merchant Navy, at the same time taking up acting, at first as a hobby. In 1971, he got his first big break with the role of Rasputin in the film Nicholas and Alexandra.
Tom Baker as the Doctor (#4)In 1974, Baker took on the role of the Doctor from Jon Pertwee, and quickly made it his own. His eccentric style of dress, particularly with his trademark long scarf, and speech made him an immediately recognisable figure, and the viewing public quickly forgot his predecessors. He remained in the role for longer than any of them, and his decision to move on was regretted by many of the programme's fans.
Prior to leaving Doctor Who, he had married, as his second wife, his co-star Lalla Ward, but they divorced after 16 months.
Baker's subsequent career was relatively unmemorable. He played character parts on television and radio (most notably the Elizabethan sea captain in Blackadder), but became mostly known for doing advertising voiceovers. In the late 1990s he had a recurring role in the revival of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). His distinctive voice has become a gift for impressionists, and he is regularly impersonated in the popular comedy series Dead Ringers.
Also a talented writer, Baker created a short fairytale-style novel titled The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, which has been described as "A Grotesque Masterpiece". He has also written an autobiography, entitled Who on Earth is Tom Baker.
External link
- Tom Baker
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Synonyms: FourthSynonyms: quaternary (adj), fourthly (adv), fourth part (n), one-fourth (n), quarter (n), quartern (n), twenty-five percent (n). (additional references) |
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Quadrisection | Noun: quadrisection, quadripartition; quartering; v; fourth; quart; quarter, quartern;Noun: quadrisection, quadripartition; quartering; v; fourth; quart; quarter, quartern; farthing (i.e. fourthing); quadrant. |
Quadruplication | Adverb: four times; in the fourth place, fourthly. |
Adjective: fourfold, four times; quadrable, quadrumanous, quadruple, quadruplicate, quadrible; fourth. | |
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Crosswords: Fourth |
| English words defined with "fourth": fourth deck, fourth dimension, fourth power, fourth stomach ♦ The Fourth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fourth": Fourth Estate of the Realm, fourth generation computer, fourth normal form, fourth rail, Fum the Fourth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fourth": Tetartohedral. (references) |
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Screenplays | Just out of curiosity, what was the fourth story (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) I have broken the fourth commandment, padre (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) Susan and I are wanderers in the fourth dimension of space and time, cut off from our own people by distances beyond the reach of your most advanced science (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Rudy, what would you do in life if you only had a fourth grade education (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne) | |
Lyrics | Now maybe we'll see on the Fourth of July (Good; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) Funny days in the park, Every day's the Fourth of July ("Saturday in the Park"; performing artist: Chicago) Cause you were born on the fourth of July, (The Remedy (I Won't Worry); performing artist: JASON MRAZ) Third and your fourth kiss (You Got It (The Right Stuff); performing artist: New Kids On The Block) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Down to Earth Part IV: The Fourth Revolution (1974) Michael O'Hara the Fourth (1972) The Fourth Square (1960) Disneyland: The Fourth Anniversary Show (1957) Magoo's Glorious Fourth (1957) | |
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 | Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH. See also ar003810. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Line drawing showing the lining of the GI tract: colorectal (muscularis). The walls of the digestive tract have four layers of tissue: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa. The inner-most layer is the mucosa, a membrane that forms a continuous lining of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus. In the large bowel, this tissue contains cells that produce mucus to lubricate and protect the smooth inner surface of the bowel wall. Connective tissue and muscle separate the muscosa from the second layer, the submucosa, which contains blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves and mucus-producing glands. Next to the submucosa is the muscularis externa, consisting of two layers of muscle fibers-one that runs lengthwise and one that encircles the bowel. The fourth layer, the serosa, is a thin membrane that produces fluid to lubricate the outer surface of the bowel so that it can slide against adjacent organs. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Closeup of Aedes aegypti mosquito fourth stage larvae, side view. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Third stage mosquito larvae of the genus Anopheles generally have a wide and heavily sclerotized collar on the posterior border of the head. Fourth instars have a smaller, less prominent collar. Credit: CDC. |
 | Fourth Flight of a Liquid Propellant Rocket. Credit: NASA. |  | A knife-edge ridge on Kauai on the Na Pali coast. The ridge looms over the Kalalau Valley which is veiled in shadows in the lower fourth of the picture. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Spartina alterniflora planted at the restoration site is in its fourth growing season. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The fourth image in this series shows the size of the culvert after it was placed where the main creek intersects the road. The new culvert will help to improve salt water exchange at Sachuest Marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Figure 66. Marconi echometer - a Langevin-Chilowsky echometer system presented at the Fourth Hydrographic Conference in Monaco under the name "Special Model for Hydrographic Studies and Shallow Water Soundings, Langevin-Chilowsky system. " This sounding system first became available in 1937. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Cadet Fourth Class Mike Grab adjusts the support line for a tent. |
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| "Smell the roses" by Jewel Collins Commentary: "A just a girl smelling a flower on the fourth of july." | "Crowd at emigration" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "My dad again, fourth from the right with the moustache, looking at the camera. I assume this was taken at customs in Portugal, 1956 or 1957. Photographer unknown." |
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| Author | Quotation |
James A. Michener | Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. |
Ronald Reagan | Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. |
Sir William Temple | The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. |
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US Constitution | 1791 | The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Fourth.The adoption of an eight hours day or a forty-eight hours week as the standard to be aimed at where it has not already been attained. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Here is my sketch of the fourth, who was a baby |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | After the fourth or fifth tumble he reached the turn, and then she waved her handkerchief to him, and waited till he was out of sight |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It would probably be on the fourth day from the present |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Three men were holding a fourth by the collar |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trifled as the flying beaks clove the air. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height, not above five hundred yards from me. |
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Health | A fourth type of DI occurs only during pregnancy. (references) | |
Fourth most common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections. (references) | ||
About one fourth of women with suspected PID must be hospitalized. (references) | ||
Business | Availability of spare parts is fourth. (references) | |
Construction of a fourth plant is being considered. (references) | ||
The USA was fourth largest investor, at $1.7 billion. (references) | ||
Children | Cyprus | In August a request by the Government of Cyprus to send a fourth teacher to the Greek Cypriot school in the north was rejected by Turkish Cypriot authorities. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Children are not subject to the strict social segregation faced by women although they are segregated by sex in schools, beginning at the age of 7; however, schools were integrated through the fourth grade in some areas. (references) | |
Morocco | On November 16, after the fourth annual "handisports" games for athletes with disabilities, the King hosted a reception in their honor at the royal palace in Rabat to increases awareness and acceptance of persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | The third and fourth most popular stations are seen as propresidential. (references) |
Uganda | The columns of three of the journalists were reinstated 3 weeks later; the fourth journalist transferred to another paper. (references) | |
Nigeria | In July the police banned the meeting of a group known as the Fourth Dimension, led by former Vice President Augustus Aikhomu, because of violence that occurred at a prior meeting in Benin City. (references) | |
Economic History | Marshall Islands | English is introduced in the fourth grade. (references) |
Brazil | A fourth oil round is scheduled for mid 2002. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Yields improved for the fourth consecutive year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | A former member of the army's Fourth Brigade, Raul Gallego, was absolved. (references) |
Guatemala | The Prosecutor's Office appealed the decision, and the Fourth Appellate Court rejected the appeal. (references) | |
Liberia | The National Chief of Police ordered the arrest of the police commander who shot the fourth grade student. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Mexico | The CNDH's office of the Fourth Inspector General reviews and investigates violations of indigenous rights. (references) |
Minorities | Switzerland | The vote was the fourth rejection of citizenship applications for some applicants. (references) |
Political Economy | Canada | A government is elected for a period not to exceed five years, but normally calls elections during the fourth year. (references) |
Political Rights | Croatia | Women held 3 of 23 cabinet positions (a fourth, the Minister of Health, resigned her position in October). (references) |
Egypt | In September 1999, President Hosni Mubarak was elected unopposed to a fourth 6-year term in a national referendum. (references) | |
Macedonia | The country's fourth parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held in January 2002, according to the Framework Agreement, were postponed. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | The "purple channel" constitutes the fourth possibility in the Argentine selective import control system. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan placed its fourth, seven-year Eurobond issue in 2000 for a total of $350 million with a yield of 11.125, payable semi-annually. (references) | |
Haiti | On December 15, 1989, Haiti signed the fourth Agreement on Common Preferences (ACP)/EEC Lomé Convention under which products originating from Haiti and more than 68 ACP countries are exempt from import duties or equivalent taxes upon entry to the EEC. (references) | |
Women | Mozambique | When a husband dies, his widow is only fourth in line (after sons, fathers, and brothers) to inherit the household goods. (references) |
Czech Republic | If medical treatment lasts less than 7 days, the attack is classified as a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not to exceed approximately $80 (3,000 Czech crowns--approximately one fourth of the average monthly wage). (references) | |
Costa Rica | The plan is based on the Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. As part of the plan, the Government established an office for gender issues in the Ministry of Labor; similar offices are planned in two other ministries. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | Rising school tuition fees and declining rural incomes discourage many rural parents from keeping their children, especially girls, in school beyond the fourth grade and make such offers more attractive. (references) |
Sri Lanka | A 1995 labor survey of the plantations indicated that half of all children in plantations drop out of school after the fourth grade, leaving a large pool of children between the ages of 10 and 15 available to pursue employment. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance. |
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Carol Channing | You bare your heart and soul and body to possible axe murderers, to hitmen, to crazy people, to somebody. You bear it and do it anyway. It's the only way. And I have done it since the fourth grade. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Commissioner, just before the Fourth of July holiday began, your boss, Mayor Bloomberg, made a comment that I'd like to put on the air for the viewers to listen to. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | A fourth enduring strand of policy has been to help improve the life of man. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Livestock producers, in their fourth straight year of record losses, were liquidating breeding herds at an unparalleled rate. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our fourth great challenge is to take back our streets from crime, gangs, and drugs. |
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| "Fourth" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fourth" is used about 6,088 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Ordinal Number | 100% | 6,088 | 1,602 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "fourth". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Kirjath-arba | N/A | Biblical | Fourth city |
| Quartus | N/A | Biblical | Fourth |
| Reba | N/A | Biblical | The fourth |
| Tetrarch | N/A | Biblical | Governor of a fourth part |
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| USA | Fourth Shift Corporation |
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Expressions using "fourth": fourth cover page ♦ fourth cranial nerve ♦ fourth Crusade ♦ fourth deck ♦ fourth dimension ♦ fourth Earl of Chesterfield ♦ fourth Earl of Orford ♦ fourth estate ♦ fourth freedom ♦ fourth generation computer ♦ fourth generation language ♦ fourth market ♦ fourth normal form ♦ fourth of July ♦ fourth part ♦ fourth power ♦ fourth rail ♦ fourth sound ♦ fourth stomach ♦ Fourth Ventricle ♦ Fourth World ♦ in the fourth place ♦ one fourth ♦ The Fourth ♦ The fourth estate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fourth": fourth-biggest, fourth-century, Fourth-century-bc, fourth-class, fourth-dimensional, fourth-fastest, fourth-floor, fourth-form, fourth-formers, fourth-gear, fourth-generation, fourth-hand, fourth-innings, fourth-largest, fourth-minute, fourth-order, fourth-placed, fourth-preference, fourth-quarter, fourth-rank, fourth-ranked, fourth-ranking, fourth-rate, fourth-rated, fourth-round, fourth-rounder, fourth-seeded, fourth-session, fourth-stage, fourth-term, fourth-third, fourth-to-fifth, fourth-wall, fourth-wicket, fourth-year, fourth-years. | |
Ending with "fourth": fifty-fourth, mid-fourth, one-fourth, thirty-fourth, twenty-fourth. | |
Containing "fourth": D-in-the-fourth-position, ex-fourth-division, sixty-fourth note. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fourth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vierde. (various references) | |
Albanian | i katërt. (various references) | |
Arabic | الجزء الرابع, الرابع من كذا, رابع, بالغ ربع كذا. (various references) | |
Asturian | cuartu. (various references) | |
Aymara | pusiri. (various references) | |
Bemba | icacine. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | четвърти. (various references) | |
Cebuano | ikaupat. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kuatto. (various references) | |
Chinese | 第四 (number four). (various references) | |
Cornish | peswera. (various references) | |
Czech | ètvrtý. (various references) | |
Danish | fjerde. (various references) | |
Dutch | vierde. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | chuscuniqui. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kvarono (quarter), kvara. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fjórðingur (quarter), fjórði. (various references) | |
Finnish | neljäs. (various references) | |
French | quatrième, quart (forth). (various references) | |
Frisian | fjirde. (various references) | |
German | vierte, viertel (district, neighbourhood, quarter, quarter note, quarter of an hour), viertes, vierter. (various references) | |
Greek | τέταρτοσ, τέταρτος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | רביעית (quart, quarter), רביעי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | negyedik, negyed (quarter, section). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keempat. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | tisamanga. (various references) | |
Italian | quarto (gammon, quarter, watch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 第四階級 (the fourth estate, the proletariat), 甲乙丙丁 , 四男 (fourth son), 四半分 (a fourth, quarter), 四次元 (four dimensions, fourth dimension), 四年生 (fourth-year student, student in hisfourth year), 四女 (fourth-born daughter), 四分 (divide into four pieces, one fourth), 丁 (4th in rank, block, cake, fourth sign of the Chinese calendar, leaf), 卯月 (fourth month of lunar calendar), 卯 (fourth sign of Chinese zodiac). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うつき (fourth month of lunar calendar), てい (4th in rank, air, appearance, brotherly affection, condition, faithful service to those older, form, fourth sign of the Chinese calendar, shave, spy, state, stopping, younger brother), よじげん (four dimensions, fourth dimension), よんじょ (fourth-born daughter), よんなん (fourth son), よねんせい (fourth-year student, student in hisfourth year), だいよんかいきゅう (the fourth estate, the proletariat), う (bend over, cormorant, fourth sign of Chinese zodiac, help), しぶん (Confucian studies, dead letter, divide into four pieces, literary works, meaningless writing, one fourth, poetry and prose, status of samurai, this academic subject or field of study), うづき (fourth month of lunar calendar), うずき (fourth month of lunar calendar), ぼう (ancient Chinese imperial jewels, certain, divide, fourth sign of Chinese zodiac, length, net, one, people, pole, rod, shaggy dog, shaggy hair, stick), ひのと (4th in rank, fourth sign of the Chinese calendar), しはんぶん (a fourth, quarter), しじげん (four dimensions, fourth dimension), こうおつへいてい. (various references) | |
Kongo | nya. (various references) | |
Korean | 제 4. (various references) | |
Macedonian | chetvrt. (various references) | |
Manx | kiarroo (die), kerroo (haunch, leg, leg of lamb, quarte, quarter, quarterland, quartern, quatrain). (various references) | |
Maori | tuawhaa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fjerdedel, fjærde. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ourthfay.(various references) | |
Polish | czwarty, ćwiartka. (various references) | |
Portuguese | quarto (bedroom, chamber, inner tire, quart, quarter, room). (various references) | |
Provencal | quatren. (various references) | |
Romanian | sfert (quart, quarter), patrulea, patra parte, pãtrime (crotchet), al patrulea. (various references) | |
Romansch | quart. (various references) | |
Ruanda | wakane. (various references) | |
Russian | четвертый. (various references) | |
Samoan | lona fa. (various references) | |
Scottish | ceathramh (fourth part, num. the fourth, quatrain, stanza). (various references) | |
Sepedi | bone. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | četvrti, četvrta brzina, četvrt (quarter). (various references) | |
Shona | china (Thursday). (various references) | |
Sicilian | quartu. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuarto (a quarter, apartment, chamber, compartment, flat, fourth part, habitation, joint, quarter, room). (various references) | |
Swahili | -a nne, a nne. (various references) | |
Swedish | fjärde. (various references) | |
Tagalog | ikaápat. (various references) | |
Thai | ที่สี่, หนึ่งในสี่ส่วน. (various references) | |
Turkish | do ile fa arasındaki aralık, dörtte bir, dördüncü. (various references) | |
Turkmen | dцrdьnji. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | четвертий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật thứ bốn, thứ tư, thứ bốn, ngày mồng bốn, một phần tư người thứ bốn. (various references) | |
Welsh | pedwerydd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quartus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | tûirîm. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 6, Verse 48 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eiden autouV basanizomenouV en tw elaunein hn gar o anemoV enantioV autoiV kai peri tetarthn fulakhn thV nuktoV ercetai proV autouV peripatwn epi thV qalasshV kai hqelen parelqein autouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et videns eos laborantes in remigando erat enim ventus contrarius eis et circa quartam vigiliam noctis venit ad eos ambulans super mare et volebat praeterire eos |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & he ge-seah hyo on reowette swincende.heom wæs wiðerward wind. Ændon nyht ymbe þa feorþan weccan he comto heom ofer þa sæ gangende. & wolde hyofor-bugen. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he say hem trauelynge in rowyng; for the wynde was contrarie to hem. And aboute the fourthe wakynge of the nyyt, he wandride on the see, and cam to hem, and wolde passe hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sawe the troubled in rowynge for the wynde was cotrary vnto them. And aboute ye fourth quartre of ye nyght he came vnto the walkinge apon the see and wolde have passed by the. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary to them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh to them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 6, Verse 48 |
| Cebuano | Ug nakita niya sila nga nagkalisudlisud sa paggaud, kay songsongon man ang hangin. Ug sa may ikaupat nga hugna sa bantay sa kagabhion, kanila miadto siya nga naglakaw ibabaw sa tubig. Tuyo unta niya ang paglabay kanila, |
| Chinese | 看 見 門 徒 、 因 風 不 順 、 搖 櫓 甚 苦 ． 夜 裡 約 有 四 更 天 、 就 在 海 面 上 走 、 往 他 們 那 裡 去 、 意 思 要 走 過 他 們 去 ． |
| Croatian | Vidjevši kako se muèe veslajuæi, jer im bijaše protivan vjetar, oko èetvrte noæne straže doðe k njima hodeæi po moru. I htjede ih mimoiæi. |
| Dutch | En Hij zag, dat zij zich zeer pijnigden, om het schip voort te krijgen; want de wind was hun tegen; en omtrent de vierde wake des nachts, kwam Hij tot hen, wandelende op de zee, en wilde hen voorbijgaan. |
| Finnish | Ja kun hän näki heidän soutaessaan olevan hädässä, sillä tuuli oli heille vastainen, tuli hän neljännen yövartion vaiheilla heidän luoksensa kävellen järven päällä ja aikoi kulkea heidän ohitsensa. |
| French | Il vit qu`ils avaient beaucoup de peine à ramer; car le vent leur était contraire. A la quatrième veille de la nuit environ, il alla vers eux, marchant sur la mer, et il voulait les dépasser. |
| German | Und er sah, daß sie Not litten im Rudern; denn der Wind war ihnen entgegen. Und um die vierte Wache der Nacht kam er zu ihnen und wandelte auf dem Meer; |
| Haitian Creole | Li wè disip yo te gen anpil traka pou yo naje zaviwon yo, paske van an te kontrè pou yo. Vè twazè nan maten, Jezi pran mache sou dlo lanmè a pou li al jwenn disip yo. Li te prèt pou depase yo. |
| Hungarian | És látá õket, a mint veszõdnek az evezéssel; mert a szél szembe fú vala velök; és az éj negyedik szakában hozzájuk méne a tengeren járva; és el akar vala haladni mellettük. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia melihat mereka bersusah payah mendayung perahu itu karena angin berlawanan arah dengan perahu. Sebab itu, kira-kira antara pukul tiga dan pukul enam pagi, Ia datang kepada mereka berjalan di atas air. Dan Ia berjalan terus seolah-olah akan melewati mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dilihat-Nya mereka itu sangat payah berdayung karena angin sakal, lalu pada waktu lepas pukul tiga malam datanglah Ia kepadanya, yaitu dengan berjalan di atas air tasik, hendak melintas mereka itu. |
| Maori | Na ka kite ia i a ratou e ruwha ana i te hoenga; i he hoki te hau ki a ratou: a i te wha o nga mataaratanga o te po ka haere atu ia ki a ratou, i haere maori atu i runga i te moana, me te mea hoki ka pahika ke i a ratou. |
| Norwegian | Og da han så at de var i nød mens de rodde - for vinden var imot - kom han til dem ved den fjerde nattevakt, vandrende på sjøen, og han vilde gå forbi dem. |
| Portuguese | E, vendo-os fatigados a remar, porque o vento lhes era contrário, pela quarta vigília da noite, foi ter com eles, andando sobre o mar; e queria passar-lhes adiante; |
| Rumanian | A vqzut pe ucenici cq se necqjesc cu vkslirea, cqci vkntul le era kmpotrivq. Wi kntr`a patra strajq din noapte, a mers la ei, umblknd pe mare, wi voia sq treacq pe lkngq ei. |
| Shuar | Jesusa unuiniamurisha wia-wiantainiakua ti pimpikiarmiayi, nase tukumma ásar. Nuna Jesus Wáiniak tsawartin ishichik ajasmatai Entsá Pátatek wekas niin jeariarmiayi. Tura nankaamaktiasa wea Núnisan wémiayi. |
| Spanish | Viendo que ellos se fatigaban remando, porque el viento les era contrario, a eso de la cuarta vigilia de la noche, él fue a ellos caminando sobre el mar, y quería pasarlos de largo. |
| Swahili | Basi, akawaona wanafunzi wake wakitaabika kwa kupiga makasia, maana upepo ulikuwa unawapinga. Karibu na mapambazuko, Yesu aliwaendea akitembea juu ya maji. Alitaka kuwapita. |
| Swedish | Och han såg dem vara hårt ansatta, där de rodde fram, ty vinden låg emot dem. Vid fjärde nattväkten kom han då till dem, gående på sjön, och skulle just gå förbi dem. |
| Uma | Nahilo-hawo kawuhe-ramo mowose, apa' ngolu' mewui mpotomu sakaya-ra. Parabaja-mi, momako' -imi hilou hi lolo ue mpototoaka-ra, ntani' naliu-ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fourth": fourthly, fourths. (additional references) | |
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"Fourth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: courth, Farukh, ferth, ffourty, Foart, foorth, fouet, fourd, fourt, fourte, fourthe, fourty, Foutch, Fuerte, furth, Furtho, Ioreth, mourth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fourth" (pronounced fô"rth) |
| 4 | f ô" r th | forth, henceforth, thenceforth. |
| 3 | -ô" r th | North. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-h-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: forth, froth, routh. | |
-2 letters: fort, four, hour, hurt, rout, ruth, thou, thro, thru, tofu, tour, turf. | |
-3 letters: foh, for, fou, fro, fur, hot, hut, oft, ort, our, out, rho, rot, rut, tho, tor. | |
-4 letters: ho, of, oh, or, to, uh, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-h-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fourths, futhorc, futhork. | |
+2 letters: fourthly, futhorcs, futhorks, refought, worthful, wrothful. | |
+3 letters: foxhunter. | |
+4 letters: fourteenth, foxhunters, housefront, turboshaft. | |
+5 letters: forethought, fourteenths, furthermore, furthermost, housefather, housefronts, turboshafts. | |
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