fourth : Idioms & Phrases

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euclid's fourth axiom

  • noun all right angles are equal
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forty-fourth

  • adjective satellite the ordinal number of forty-four in counting order
    44th.
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fourth council of constantinople

  • noun the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
    Constantinople.
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fourth cranial nerve

  • noun either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes
    trochlear; trochlearis; trochlear nerve.
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fourth crusade

  • noun a Crusade from 1202 to 1204 that was diverted into a battle for Constantinople and failed to recapture Jerusalem
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fourth deck

  • noun the fourth or lowest deck
    orlop; orlop deck.
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fourth dimension

  • noun the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
    time.
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fourth earl of chesterfield

  • noun suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)
    Philip Dormer Stanhope; Chesterfield.
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fourth earl of orford

  • noun English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
    Walpole; Horatio Walpole; Horace Walpole.
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fourth estate

  • noun the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers
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fourth lateran council

  • noun the Lateran Council in 1215 was the most important council of the Middle Ages; issued a creed against Albigensianism, published reformatory decrees, promulgated the doctrine of transubstantiation, and clarified church doctrine on the Trinity and Incarnation
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fourth of july

  • noun a legal holiday in the United States
    Independence Day; July 4.
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fourth part

  • noun one of four equal parts
    twenty-five percent; fourth part; one-quarter; quartern; fourth; quarter.
    • a quarter of a pound
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fourth power

  • noun an algebraic equation of the fourth degree
    biquadratic; quartic; biquadrate.
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fourth stomach

  • noun the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place
    abomasum.
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fourth ventricle

  • noun an irregular ventricle between the third ventricle and the central canal of the spinal cord
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fourth-year

  • adjective satellite used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college
    senior.
    • the senior prom
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one-fourth

  • noun one of four equal parts
    twenty-five percent; fourth part; one-quarter; quartern; fourth; quarter.
    • a quarter of a pound
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one-sixty-fourth

  • noun one part in sixty-four equal parts
    one-sixty-fourth.
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sixty-fourth

  • noun one part in sixty-four equal parts
    one-sixty-fourth.
  • adjective satellite the ordinal number of sixty-four in counting order
    64th.
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Six`ty-fourth" adjective
Definitions
  1. Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.
Webster 1913

Sixty-fourth note

  • noun a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
    hemidemisemiquaver.
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  • (Mus.), the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.
Webster 1913

The Fourth

  • specifically, un the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.
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The fourth estate

  • a name often given to the public press.
Webster 1913

thirty-fourth

  • adjective satellite the ordinal number of thirty-four in counting order
    34th.
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three-fourths

  • noun three of four equal parts
    three-quarters.
    • three-fourths of a pound
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twenty-fourth

  • adjective satellite coming next after the twenty-third in position
    24th.
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