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Definition: Quartering |
QuarteringNoun1. A coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages. 2. Living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel). 3. Dividing into four equal parts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quartering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
Note: Quartering \Quar"ter*ing\, noun. 1. A station. [Obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. The reduction in quantity of a large sample of material by dividing a heap into four approx. equal parts by diameters at right angles, removing two diagonally opposite quarters and mixing the two remaining quarters intimately together so as to obtain a truly representative half of the original mass. The process is repeated until a sample is obtained of the requisite size. Syn:coning; coning and quartering b. To split a piece of core longitudinally into four equal part. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Quadrisection | Noun: quadrisection, quadripartition; quartering; v; fourth; quart; quarter, quartern; farthing (i.e. fourthing); quadrant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Quartering |
| English words defined with "quartering": Casemate, Coigny ♦ Lituus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quartering": hand sampling. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "quartering": Quartter. (references) |
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| "Quartering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Quartering" is used about 20 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "quartering": quartering block. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
act quartering | 40 |
quartering | 12 |
drawing quartering | 5 |
drawing hanging quartering | 3 |
1765 act quartering | 3 |
party quartering | 3 |
quartering soldier | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quartering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扎营 (Encampment, Quartered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | firdeling (quartation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kwartering (quartation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kvarttaus (quartation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quartation (quartation), échantillonnage du minerai (quartation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Quartierung (quartation), zerlegen (analyse, analyze, break down, carve, carve up, cut up, decompose, depacketize, dismantle, disperse, dissect, divide, joint, quarter, reduce, separate, share, strip down, take apart, take down, take to pieces, to analyse, to carve, to decompose, to depacketize, to disassemble, to disjoint, to dismember, to disperse), vierteln (divide by four, divide into four, quarter), vierteilen (divide into four parts, quarter), teilung in vier teile, einteilung in vier felder, einquartierung (accommodation, billeting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אכסון (accommodation, hospitalization, lodging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | negyedelés (quartation, squaring), négyzetkeresztmetszet gerenda, négyfelé osztás, négyelés, négy részre szeletelés, négy részre osztás, négy hüvelyk széles gerenda, kilencven fokos felékelés, kilencven fokos ékelés, faváz rövid gerendaeleme, elszállásolás (accommodation, billet, housing), elhelyezés (accommodation, allocation, berth, disposition, emplacement, housing, locating, location, placement, putting, siting), beszállásolás (billet, billeting, cantonment, lodgement, lodgment), bekvártélyozás (billet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 4"분. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tayrn (brew of tea; designing, brew; designing, carry, carrying, cart; get out; draw, deracinate, describe; attract, draft, drag, draw along, drawing, haul, haulage, heave, hitch, induce; tap, induce; tap as barrel, lure, pluck, pull, pulling, suction, tow, towing, trace, tracing; quartering, trawl, tug, tugging, yank), croghey as tayrn (hanging and quartering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arteringquay inquartação (quartation), amostragem do mineral (quartation). (various references) incuartación de minerales (quartation), división en cuatro partes, descuartizamiento, cuarteo de minerales (quartation), cuartel (barracks, district, hootch, quarter), corte a escuadra, alojamiento (accommodation, billet, digs, housing, kip, lodgement, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, quarterage, quarters, rooms), acuartelamiento. (various references) kvartering (quartation). (various references) поділ на чотири частини. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quartering": quarterings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "quartering": headquartering. (additional references) | |
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"Quartering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Quadratron, quantizing, quarterings, quercetin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-q-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: garniture. | |
-2 letters: antiquer, equating, quainter, quartern. | |
-3 letters: angrier, antique, earring, gaunter, grainer, granite, granter, gratine, grunter, ingrate, quarter, quinate, quintar, rangier, rearing, regrant, retrain, ruinate, runtier, tangier, tarring, taurine, tearing, terrain, trainer, trueing, unitage, uranite, urinate. | |
-4 letters: aigret, argent, arguer, artier, augite, auntie, earing, eating, engirt, errant, erring, gainer, gaiter, garner, garnet, garret, garter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-q-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: quarterings. | |
+4 letters: headquartering, quarterbacking. | |
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