Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Three-quarter \Three"-quar`ter\, a. (Paint.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of three fourths of the usual dimension 2 (context of a portrait English) with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view n. (context rugby English) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)
WordNet
adj. representing three quarters of something; "a three-quarter-length portrait"; "a three-quarter view"
Usage examples of "three-quarter".
Admiral Bossu, seeing that further resistance was useless, and that his ship was aground on a hostile shore, his fleet dispersed and three-quarters of his soldiers and crew dead or disabled, struck his flag and surrendered with 300 prisoners.
Yet, oddly, Marengo made himself easy to follow, even spending three-quarters of an hour in a coffee bar, while Alan prayed that it would prove the site of the meet and Bonner would appear.
Southern skirt of the Henry House plateau--in a line-of-battle which, with its left resting upon the Sudley road, three-quarters of a mile South of its intersection with the Warrenton Pike, is the irregular hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle, formed by itself and those two intersecting roads, to the South-East of such intersection.
In ER they had shrink-wrapped his brain down to three-quarters its size by running a half liter of concentrated mannitol through it.
Pennant in mentioning a woman in Rosshire who lived one and three-quarters years without meat or drink.
For as there had been no monody, so there had been no solo singing, and as the operas of the first three-quarters of this century, in spite of the improvements of Monteverde, consisted mostly of recitative, there was still no singing in the modern acceptation of the term.
Kalvan noted that several wore three-quarter lobster armor and each held a heavy-barreled musketoon slung across his back as well as a brace of pistols.
The kitchen endowment to be cut by three-quarters and the funds reallocated to scholarships.
Mr Semple was a more than useful three-quarter, and had long cherished an ambition to play a team of masters against the Old Boys.
Spey were weak behind the scrum but had a formidable pack, and, coached to this end by Mr Semple when he perceived how the weather was going to turn out, they kept the ball at their feet and gave the Helston three-quarters little chance.
Roxanne was three-quarters of the distance across the outer courtyard when Kayan appeared in the open gateway with their nineteen-year-old daughter, Shahi, in his arms.
When he lifts a hand to scratch his cheek, I see that his nails have grown long and that each is capped by an amber section perhaps three-quarters of an inch, adding the insinuation of a strange, random element in his character.
The three-quarter moon shone through the trees slantways as it rose, as if a giant lantern had been lit somewhere in the woods.
At the first stoppage a middle-aged woman entered the compartment, taking a seat by the farther window, but at Midbrook, about three-quarters of the way to London, we were joined by a man, who lowered himself gently into the seat facing my own, with his face towards the engine.
Judging from the quantity recovered, she must have taken not less than three-quarters of a grain of strychnine, but probably one grain or slightly over.