fourth
IPA: fˈɔrθ
noun
- (in the singular) The person or thing in the fourth position.
- (chiefly US) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
- (in the singular) The fourth gear of an engine.
- (music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
- (US) The Fourth of July.
verb
- (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.
adjective
- The ordinal form of the number four.
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Examples of "fourth" in Sentences
- Practically speaking, the top three make the team and the fourth is an alternate.
- I also have a room where three walls are pale lavender and the fourth is a dark wine red.
- There was what we called a "fourth wall" — you never got to be a part of the process.
- Thus far we have treated of the meaning of the term fourth dimension as it is used in mathematics.
- Decades ago, Hassell coined the term fourth world music to describe his sound, that's both primitive and futuristic.
- Principals and teachers around the country are growing increasingly concerned with what they call the fourth-grade slump.
- And the fourth is the attractiveness of our country -- ensuring that people and companies want to come here, stay here, and grow here.
- BP has repeatedly promised to pay all "legitimate claims" for loss and damage as a result of the Gulf oil spill, now vying for the title fourth biggest oil spill in history at 2.3 million barrels of crude over the past two months.
- Thus, 104603 means that we place a pig in the first row of the _first_ column, in no row of the _second_ column, in the fourth row of the _third_ column, in the sixth row of the _fourth_ column, in no row of the _fifth_ column, and in the third row of the
- The term fourth estate is frequently attributed to the nineteenth century historian Carlyle, though he himself seems to have attributed it to Edmund Burke: Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters 'Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important than they all.
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