fourth

[fourth]

Following the third position; number four in a countable series

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Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

Noun
the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it

Noun
one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"

Noun
following the third position; number four in a countable series

Adjective S.
coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present"

Adverb
in the fourth place; "fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month"

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a.
Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

a.
Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

n.
One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.

n.
The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.


Fourth

Fourth , a. [OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS. fe'a2r&edh;a, fr. fe'a2wer four.] 1. Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four. 2. Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

Fourth

Fourth, n. 1. One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third. 2. (Mus.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key. 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.

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.

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Usage Examples

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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