"three-quarter" meaning in English

See three-quarter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} three-quarter (not comparable)
  1. of three fourths of the usual dimension Tags: not-comparable Translations (of three fourths of the usual dimension): tříčtvrteční (Czech), שלושת-רבעי (shloshtriv3éy) (Hebrew), dodrans (Latin), tree kerroo (Manx)
    Sense id: en-three-quarter-en-adj-QlP2gL8F Disambiguation of 'of three fourths of the usual dimension': 98 2
  2. (of a portrait) with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-three-quarter-en-adj-GFclE311
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: three-quarters Derived forms: three-quarter bathroom

Noun

Forms: three-quarters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} three-quarter (plural three-quarters)
  1. (rugby) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back) Categories (topical): Rugby Translations (Translations): trequarti [masculine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-three-quarter-en-noun-AQHeJCFm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 24 43 5 Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports Disambiguation of 'Translations': 92 8
  2. (only in singular) A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %) Tags: singular Synonyms: ¾ Translations (the fraction ¾): trekvart (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-three-quarter-en-noun-3dcVj2Lr Disambiguation of 'the fraction ¾': 0 100

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for three-quarter meaning in English (3.7kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "three-quarter bathroom"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "three-quarter (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "of three fourths of the usual dimension"
      ],
      "id": "en-three-quarter-en-adj-QlP2gL8F",
      "links": [
        [
          "three",
          "three"
        ],
        [
          "fourth",
          "fourth"
        ],
        [
          "dimension",
          "dimension"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
          "word": "tříčtvrteční"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "shloshtriv3éy",
          "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
          "word": "שלושת-רבעי"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
          "word": "dodrans"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
          "word": "tree kerroo"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view"
      ],
      "id": "en-three-quarter-en-adj-GFclE311",
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "turned",
          "turned"
        ],
        [
          "away",
          "away"
        ],
        [
          "frontal",
          "frontal"
        ],
        [
          "view",
          "view"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a portrait) with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a portrait"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "three-quarters"
    }
  ],
  "word": "three-quarter"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "three-quarters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "three-quarter (plural three-quarters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rugby",
          "orig": "en:Rugby",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 24 43 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)"
      ],
      "id": "en-three-quarter-en-noun-AQHeJCFm",
      "links": [
        [
          "rugby",
          "rugby"
        ],
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
        [
          "half-back",
          "half-back"
        ],
        [
          "full-back",
          "full-back"
        ],
        [
          "three-quarter back",
          "three-quarter back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rugby) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "rugby",
        "sports"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "trequarti"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Europe has around a three-quarter billion/milliard (i.e. 750 million) inhabitants."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %)"
      ],
      "id": "en-three-quarter-en-noun-3dcVj2Lr",
      "links": [
        [
          "fraction",
          "fraction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(only in singular) A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "¾"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "the fraction ¾",
          "word": "trekvart"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "three-quarter"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Translation table header lacks gloss"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "three-quarter bathroom"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "three-quarter (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "of three fourths of the usual dimension"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "three",
          "three"
        ],
        [
          "fourth",
          "fourth"
        ],
        [
          "dimension",
          "dimension"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "turned",
          "turned"
        ],
        [
          "away",
          "away"
        ],
        [
          "frontal",
          "frontal"
        ],
        [
          "view",
          "view"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a portrait) with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a portrait"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "three-quarters"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
      "word": "tříčtvrteční"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "shloshtriv3éy",
      "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
      "word": "שלושת-רבעי"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
      "word": "dodrans"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "of three fourths of the usual dimension",
      "word": "tree kerroo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "three-quarter"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Translation table header lacks gloss"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "three-quarters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "three-quarter (plural three-quarters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rugby"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rugby",
          "rugby"
        ],
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
        [
          "half-back",
          "half-back"
        ],
        [
          "full-back",
          "full-back"
        ],
        [
          "three-quarter back",
          "three-quarter back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rugby) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "rugby",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Europe has around a three-quarter billion/milliard (i.e. 750 million) inhabitants."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fraction",
          "fraction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(only in singular) A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "¾"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trequarti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the fraction ¾",
      "word": "trekvart"
    }
  ],
  "word": "three-quarter"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.