four

Bedeutung

Num

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

Noun

1. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. Anything measuring four units, as length.
3. Four o'clock.
4. A person who is four years old.
5. 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.
6. A power forward.
7. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
8. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
9. (colloquial) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
10. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/fɔː/

Etymologie

From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

Sätze

They finished fourth out of four teams .

Sie wurden das vierte von vier Teams.

Four sailors died instantly and another two were lost overboard .

Vier Seeleute starben sofort und zwei weitere waren über Bord verloren.

When he was four weeks old , his family relocated to Vienna , Austria .

Als er vier Wochen alt war, zog seine Familie nach Wien, Österreich.

San Juan County borders Arizona , Colorado , and New Mexico at the Four Corners .

San Juan County grenzt an Arizona, Colorado und New Mexico an den vier Ecken.

By observing these subjects , Johnson helped Masters identify the four stages of sexual response .

Durch die Beobachtung dieser Probanden half Johnson Masters, die vier Phasen sexueller Reaktion zu identifizieren.

Krantz was married four times and divorced thrice .

Krantz war viermal verheiratet und dreimal geschieden.

The same four demons appear in the "Semiphoras and Schemhamforas".

Die gleichen vier Dämonen erscheinen in "Semiphoras und Schemhamforas".

The four regiments formed four battalions , retaining their previous names in the titles .

Die vier Regimenter bildeten vier Bataillone und behielten ihre vorherigen Namen in den Titeln bei.