Four

Word FOUR
Character 4
Hyphenation four
Pronunciations /foː/

Definitions and meanings of "Four"

What do we mean by four?

The cardinal number equal to 3 + 1. noun

The fourth in a set or sequence. noun

Something having four parts, units, or members, such as a musical quartet or a four-cylinder engine. noun

(all fours) All four limbs of an animal or person. idiom

In cricket, a boundary; also, a ball hit by the batsman, which reaches the boundary, thus scoring four runs. See fourer. noun

One more than three; twice two: a cardinal numeral: as, four legs; four wheels.

A number, twice two or the sum of three and one; the number of the fingers of one hand, without the thumb. noun

A symbol representing this number, as 4, IV, or iv. noun

A four-oared boat; the crew of a four-oared boat. noun

A playing-card with four pips or spots on it. noun

In dice or dominoes, the face of a piece showing four spots. noun

Plural In the game of poker, a hand containing four cards of the same denomination, and ranking between a full and a straight flush. noun

A team of four horses harnessed together to draw a coach or other vehicle: as, a coach and four; a well-matched four. noun

Plural Same as fourings. noun

One more than three; twice two. adjective

The sum of four units; four units or objects. noun

A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv. noun

Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses. noun

See All fours, in the Vocabulary. noun

A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••) noun

The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

Anything measuring four units, as length.

A person who is four years old.

An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.

A power forward.

Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.

A four-pennyworth of spirits.

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The word "four" in example sentences

The players during this drawing and discarding are gradually improving their hands, and matching them into four sets and an extra tile, a set being _three of a kind_, _four of a kind_, or _three in a sequence_. ❋ Lew Lysle Harr (N/A)

The four Corners of the Table must be furnished with _four Holes_, and exactly in the middle of each side _one Hole_, and these Holes must be hung at the bottoms with _Nets_, Which Holes are named _Hazards_, because if either by Skill or Chance one Gamester strikes anothers Ball into these Holes, or Hazards, as we will now call them, he wins One; the ❋ Robert Howlett (N/A)

The owner or master of the establishment was squatted upon the dry sandy ground, with three or four young children sprawling round him, while his _four_ wives were occupied with their respective duties. ❋ Various (N/A)

I never hear of an inexperienced buyer in search of a rifle without being reminded of the purchaser of a telescope, who, on asking the optician, among a multitude of other questions, whether he would be able to discern an object through it four miles off, received for reply, 'See an object _four_ miles off, Sir? ❋ Various (N/A)

The number of lines used in the staff has varied greatly since the time of Guido, there having been all the way from four to fifteen at various times and in various places, (_four_ being the standard number for a long time). ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)

Such a Nootka word, for instance, as “when, as they say, he had been absent for four days” might be expected to embody at least three radical elements corresponding to the concepts of “absent, ” “four, ” and “day. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Now in order to establish a position in a space of four dimensions it would be necessary to measure in _four_ mutually perpendicular directions. ❋ Claude Fayette Bragdon (1906)

The four actors of whom I shall attempt to tell, you something -- Burbage, Betterton, Garrick, and Kean -- were the _four_ greatest champions, in their respective times, on the stage of Nature in contradistinction to Artificiality. ❋ Henry Brodribb Irving (1894)

Lucrezia swinging in a hammock in the centre of a large room, the four corners of which are occupied by four bedsteads containing four children, in the production of whom not exactly _four_ fathers, as they ought for perfect symmetry, but as a compromise _three_, have assisted. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

In the invasion of Mexico, the United States formed four separate armies, moving on _four distinct lines of operation: _ 1st. ❋ Henry Wager Halleck (1843)

One of these flat flags, ten feet by four, and a foot in thickness, would present to this upheaving force, if placed on end, a superficies of but _four_ square feet; whereas, if placed on its broader base, it would present to it a superficies of ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

This is what he and the like of him have actually done by shiploads of people far more entitled to consideration than any one of my four great-grandmothers (for I had _four_, with eight shin-bones amongst them). ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

For as the first four seals are distinguished from the three last by the appearance of four horsemen towards the four winds of heaven; so the wars of the first four trumpets are distinguished from those of the three last, by representing these by _four winds_, and the others by _three great woes_. ❋ Isaac Newton (1684)

[four of four… whew… didja miss the first three?] previous * next * guestbook ❋ Angieyu (2003)

December 1819 and January 1821, Constable & Co. giving five thousand guineas for the remaining copyright of them, Scott clearing ten thousand before the bargain was completed; and before the _Fortunes of Nigel_ issued from the press Scott had exchanged instruments and received his bookseller's bills for no less than four 'works of fiction,' not one of them otherwise described in the deeds of agreement, to be produced in unbroken succession, _each of them to fill up at least three volumes, but with proper saving clauses as to increase of copy money in case any of them should run to four_; and within two years all this anticipation had been wiped off by _Peveril of the Peak_, _Quentin Durward_, _St. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

"old to the extent of four years," but _four years_ answers for the whole phrase. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

The British Crown knighted him in 1915 for his cultural and intellectual contributions, but he renounced the title four years later to protest the massacre of Indians in the northern city of Amritsar. ❋ Amy Yee (2011)

The Americans discovered his name four years ago, and discovered that he lived in the Abbottabad region with his brother two years ago. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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