four

Significado

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fɔː/

Etimología

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).

Oraciones

They finished fourth out of four teams .

Terminaron cuarto de cuatro equipos.

Four sailors died instantly and another two were lost overboard .

Cuatro marineros murieron al instante y otros dos se perdieron por la borda.

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

Cuando tenía cuatro semanas, su familia se mudó a Viena, Austria.

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

El condado de San Juan limita con Arizona, Colorado y Nuevo México en las cuatro esquinas.

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

Al observar estos temas, Johnson ayudó a los maestros a identificar las cuatro etapas de la respuesta sexual.

Krantz was married four times and divorced thrice .

Krantz se casó cuatro veces y se divorció tres veces.

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

Los mismos cuatro demonios aparecen en las "Semiforas y Schemhamforas".

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

Los cuatro regimientos formaron cuatro batallones, reteniendo sus nombres anteriores en los títulos.