Crossword clues for fourth
fourth
- Fireworks time, with "the"
- Following the third position
- Number four in a countable series
- One of four equal parts
- The musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
- Annual holiday, with "the"
- Last quarter
- Quart, to a gallon
- C-F musical interval - Prince Regent George's eventual regnal number
- Between third and fifth
- Just outside the medals
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fourth \Fourth\, a. [OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS. fe['o]r[eth]a, fr. fe['o]wer four.]
Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
Fourth \Fourth\, n.
One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.
(Mus.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
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One coming next in order after the third.
The Fourth, specifically, in the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., alteration (by influence of four), of ferthe, from Old English feorða "fourth," from Proto-Germanic *fe(d)worthon- (cognates: Old Saxon fiortho, Old Norse fiorðe, Dutch vierde, Old High German fiordo, German vierte); see four + -th (1). As a noun from 1590s, both of fractions and in music.\n
\nAmong the old Quakers, who rejected the pagan weekday names, fourth day was Wednesday, often a secondary day of meeting for worship. Fourth-dimension attested from 1844. The theatrical fourth wall is from 1807. The celebration of the Fourth of July as the epoch of American independence is attested from 1777.\n\nThat there is due to Daniel Smith, of the city tavern, for his bill of expences of Congress, on the 4 of July last, including a balance of an old account, the sum of 729 68/90 dollars; also a bill for materials, workmanship, &c furnished for the fire works on the 4 July, the sum of 102 69/90 dollars ....
[Auditor General's report, Aug. 8, 1777, "Journals of Congress," vol. VII]
Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number four. n. 1 (context not used in the plural English) The person or thing in the fourth position. 2 A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole. 3 (context not used in the plural English) The fourth gear of an engine. 4 (context music English) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
WordNet
n. following the third position; number four in a countable series
one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" [syn: one-fourth, quarter, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quartern]
the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
adj. 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" [syn: 4th, quaternary]
adv. in the fourth place; "fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month" [syn: fourthly]
Wikipedia
Fourth or 4th may refer to:
- Fourth, the ordinal number following third
- A fraction, one quarter or ¼, equal to 0.25
- "The Fourth", colloquially referring to the United States holiday of Independence Day, celebrated on the Fourth of July
Fourth is the fourth studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine, released in 1971. The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA.
Usage examples of "fourth".
WITH 1826 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it was not long into the new year when Adams and Jefferson were being asked to attend a variety of celebrations planned to commemorate the historic event on the Fourth of July.
As once he had been determined to drive a declaration of independence through Congress, or to cross the Pyrenees in winter, so Adams was determined now to live to see one last Fourth of July.
There were four deaths in the town the next week, but three of them were of sickly infants and only the fourth of plague, and, again, the victim was someone recently come from London, from Allhallows by the Wall, near Moorfields.
And the fourth is Fabius Sanga, at present well on his way to the lands of the Allobroges in the company of his clients.
But on the fourth of the month Hideyoshi had made peace with the Mori, on the fifth he had departed, on the seventh he had arrived at Himeji, on the ninth he had turned toward Amagasaki, on the thirteenth he had struck down Mitsuhide in the battle at Yamazaki, and by the time Katsuie had reached the borders of Omi, he had already swept the capital clear of the remaining enemy troops.
Fourth, which were in service at Appleton two years ago, when Sir George died?
But the command had been issued: the astrogator had ordered a fourth and a fifth teleprobe sent up.
So one day, as Roger was nailing down sheets of aluminum on the roof, Nate came to him, told him of Operation Auca, and asked him to go along as the badly-needed fourth man.
Pehlevi probably of the fourth century, according to Troyer,6 and is believed to have been originally written in the Avestan tongue, though this is extremely doubtful.
After the death of the younger Romanus, the fourth in lineal descent of the Basilian race, his widow Theophania successively married Nicephorus Phocas and his assassin John Zimisces, the two heroes of the age.
But George the Fourth, looking anxiously from his bassinette, need not have been so afraid she was going to refuse.
The Times went on to point out that Bedaux was the fourth of that group to meet with an unnatural end.
Forest continue to be felled one by one -- to make matters worse, it would have been a good beechnut year -- Eddi Amsel in his villa on Steffensweg builds the fourth life-size scarecrow: a black mobile twelve-legged dog.
This advance of 550 miles from Hollandia to Cape Sansapor required little more than three months, with three big Japanese air bases-Hollandia, Wakde, Biak picked up en route, and a fourth, Wewak, leapfrogged.
She could identify three of the buildings, the cabin, the woodshed, the biffy, but there was a fourth square, much smaller than the cabin but larger than the others, drawn into an empty corner of the lot.