What does four mean?
Definitions for four
fɔr, foʊrfour
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Princeton's WordNet
four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joenoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
four-spot, fouradjective
a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
four, 4, ivadjective
being one more than three
Wiktionary
fournoun
The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
fournoun
Anything measuring four units, as length.
Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
fournoun
A person who is fours years old.
I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
fournoun
An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, 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.
fournoun
Quadruple sculls.
fournoun
A four-pennyworth of spirits.
Etymology: fower, from feower, from fedwōr, from kʷetwóres. Cognate with German vier, Gothic 034603390333034503490342, Ancient Greek, Latin quattuor (French quatre, Portuguese quatro), Old Norse fjórir (Danish fire), Russian четыре, Sanskrit चतुर्.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FOURadjective
Twice two.
Etymology: feower, Saxon.
Just as I wish’d, the lots were cast on four;
Myself the fifth. Alexander Pope, Odyssey, b. ix.
Wikipedia
Four
Four (stylised as FOUR; formerly TV4) was the second New Zealand television channel owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand, broadcast via the state-owned Kordia transmission network. The channel launched on 29 June 1997 as TV4 and was replaced by C4 on 3 October 2003. It was relaunched on 6 February 2011 as a separate channel from C4. On 2 July 2016, Mediaworks closed Four and replaced it with Bravo as part of a deal with NBC Universal.In general, the channel's target audience was 18- to 49-year-olds and could be broader in its appeal, with programming which attracted a wider, and more mature audience. During early mornings and late afternoons the channel screened a range of children's programming such as Sesame Street and in the evenings screened shows aimed at the mainstream audience. Overnight and late mornings – early afternoons the channel screened Infomercials and Auto TV (Car Commercials). Four broadcast mostly American programming, with the exception of Sticky TV, Four Live, and Smash, which were in-house produced Auckland-hosted youth shows, and the Pukana youth show, which was produced from a Maori language government fund. Pukana also airs on one of the two government funded Maori language channels.
ChatGPT
Four
Four is a cardinal number that represents the quantity or value of a group or collection consisting of three additional units. It is the number that follows three and precedes five in the numerical sequence.
Webster Dictionary
Fouradjective
one more than three; twice two
Fournoun
the sum of four units; four units or objects
Fournoun
a symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv
Fournoun
four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four
Etymology: [OE. four, fower, feower, AS. fewer; akin to OS. fiwar, D. & G. vier, OHG. fior, Icel. fjrir, Sw. fyra, Dan. fire, Goth. fidwr, Russ. chetuire, chetvero, W. pedwar, L. quatuor, Gr. te`ttares, te`ssares, pi`syres, Skr. catur. 302. Cf. Farthing, Firkin, Forty, Cater four, Quater-cousin, Quatuor, Quire of paper, tetrarch.]
Wikidata
four
Four is the breakthrough album by American jam band Blues Traveler, released on September 13, 1994. Four peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and is most known for its hits "Run-Around" & "Hook", which charted at #8 & #23, respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. Both songs also charted in the top 20 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks & Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts, as well. According to the RIAA, the album is certified as 6x Platinum. "Run-Around" won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a duo or group.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Four
fōr, adj. and n. two and two, a cardinal number.—adjs. Four′fold, folded four times: multiplied four times; Four′-foot′ed, having four feet; Four′-hand′ed, having four hands: of a game, played by four people; Four′-inched (Shak.), four inches broad.—ns. Four′-in-hand, a vehicle drawn by four horses, driven by one person: a team of four horses drawing a carriage—also adj.; Four′penny, a small silver coin worth fourpence formerly coined in England.—adj. worth fourpence.—n. Four′-post′er, a large bed with four posts on which to hang curtains.—adjs. Four′score, four times a score—80; Four′some, by fours: anything in which four act together—also n.; Four′square, having four equal sides and angles: square.—adjs. and ns. Four′teen, four and ten; Four′teenth, four or the fourth after the tenth.—adj. Fourth, next after the third.—n. one of four equal parts.—adv. Fourth′ly.—adj. Fourth′-rate, of the fourth class or order.—n. Four′-wheel′er, a carriage or cab with four wheels.—Go on all fours, to go on hands and knees. [A.S. féower; Ger. vier, L. quatuor, Gr. tessares.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
four
A place of confinement in Paris to which vagabonds and persons who could not give any satisfactory account of themselves were committed; and when once shut up had their names registered, and were enlisted for the old French government. These Fours added annually 2000 men at least to the king’s regular army; by which means the capital was relieved of a multitude of thieves, pickpockets, etc.
Rap Dictionary
fournoun
See '64.
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Rank popularity for the word 'four' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #226
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of four in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of four in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of four in a Sentence
They went over everything, from where they got their needles, what was in the bag, i trusted them because each [shot to be pushed through the IV] had a description of what it was. At least three or four times, they asked if I had any questions or concerns prior to getting my IV.
Instead of just going right over the end… you stop right at the edge for about four seconds—and then you drop and it’s just pure weightlessness.
Paramedics arrived on scene, and I see them put him in a four-point restraint or hogtie, I don't know how else to describe it.
He's tough, he did four years in the Army, he has done six years with the Chicago Police Department. He's a tough kid. He is hanging in there.
This is where the magic happens; four motors are allowing it to perform any movement, so you can really move it in the air like a flying eye, there is a computer on board which knows exactly how it's orientated in the world, and then it gives commands to the motors to actually align it to where you want it to be. And there are four motors on it which can rotate around their axis and with them you can precisely control it in any environment, basically.
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- أربعةArabic
- čtyřiCzech
- fireDanish
- vierGerman
- τέσσεραGreek
- kvarEsperanto
- cuatroSpanish
- چهارPersian
- neljäFinnish
- quatreFrench
- ceathrarIrish
- चारHindi
- négyHungarian
- չորսըArmenian
- empatIndonesian
- quattroItalian
- ארבעHebrew
- 4つのJapanese
- ನಾಲ್ಕುKannada
- 네Korean
- quattuorLatin
- vierDutch
- fireNorwegian
- czteryPolish
- quatroPortuguese
- patruRomanian
- 4Russian
- fyraSwedish
- நான்குTamil
- నాలుగుTelugu
- สี่Thai
- dTurkish
- ЧотириUkrainian
- چارUrdu
- bốnVietnamese
- פירYiddish
- 四Chinese
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