four
IPA: fˈɔr
noun
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- Four o'clock.
- A person who is four years old.
- (cricket, countable) 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.
- (basketball, countable) A power forward.
- (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
- The shell itself.
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
- (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
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Examples of "four" in Sentences
- Also three of the four wins were in the sprint.
- The young eaglet fledges after four or five months.
- The mothers wean their young at four to five months.
- The ascent took five days and included four bivouacs.
- He is the father of three and the grandfather of four.
- The anther is terminal, and contains four to six pollinia.
- Three of the four entries are dismissive of the controversy.
- In addition, four Landwehr and six Ersatz divisions were formed.
- He stood six feet three or four inches tall, thin, sallow, and stooped.
- This ankylosaurid had five toes on the forefoot and four on the hind foot.
- In the invasion of Mexico, the United States formed four separate armies, moving on _four distinct lines of operation: _ 1st.
- Now in order to establish a position in a space of four dimensions it would be necessary to measure in _four_ mutually perpendicular directions.
- 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.
- 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_.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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
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