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 fourth [forθ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
num. 第四, 四分之一

  1. After her fourth child she decided to have herself sterilized.
    她生了第四个孩子后决定做绝育手术。
  2. One fourth of a ton;500 pounds. Used as a measure of grain.
    五百磅四分之一吨；五百磅。用作谷物计量单位
  3. I am a soldier of the fourth cavalry.
    我是第四骑兵部队的一员。


fourth
[ noun ]
  1. following the third position; number four in a countable series

    2. <noun.linkdef>
  2. one of four equal parts

    3. <noun.quantity>
    a quarter of a pound
  3. the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it

    4. <noun.communication>
[ adv ]
  1. in the fourth place

    2. <adv.all>
    fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month
[ adj ]
  1. coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude

    2. <adj.all>
    the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present


Fourth \Fourth\, a. [OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS.
fe['o]r[eth]a, fr. fe['o]wer 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.

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

3. One coming next in order after the third.

{The Fourth}, specifically, in the United States, the fourth
day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of
American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.

  1. Some analysts believe the CBS network had a loss of $20 million to $30 million in the fourth quarter and may show a loss in the current period.
  2. Sears Chairman Edward A. Brennan said: "We're not terribly nervous about the fourth quarter.
  3. Earnings were helped by stronger fee income, wider interest spreads and lower bad debt provisions. Net income in the fourth quarter of 1992 was Dollars 104m (Dollars 1.14 per share), up from Dollars 66m, or 80 cents.
  4. On Thursday, the mine owner, Anglo-American Corp., announced that a fourth miner had been found dead underground, but gave no further information.
  5. Courier Dispatch Group Inc., Atlanta, said it expects to roughly "break even" in its second quarter, ending Dec. 31, but expects to improve earnings in the third and fourth quarters.
  6. He also noted that December silver eased to a fresh life-of-contract low for the fourth consecutive session.
  7. The fourth building, Tower C, is owned by American Express.
  8. Overall, some forecasters say corporate profits fell to an annual rate of about $145 billion in the fourth quarter, down 12% to 15% from a year earlier.
  9. As a result, an improvement isn't expected now before the fourth quarter.
  10. Among them: less worry about inflation because of recent declines in commodity prices, and indications that the inventory build-up in the fourth quarter might not have been as big as originally estimated.
  11. Late last month, OPEC increased its production ceiling to 20.5 million barrels a day for the fourth quarter.
  12. Oracle Corp. said it expects to report record net income of $7.8 million, or 24 cents a share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended May 31.
  13. In 1540, King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
  14. Stanley Bender, vice president, finance, said the company will take "substantial write-downs" in the fourth quarter.
  15. It marked the fourth nationwide balloting since President Corazon Aquino took power three years ago and Ferdinand Marcos, the president for 20 years, fled into Hawaiian exile.
  16. In addition, McDermott International eased 1 to 30 1/2 after reporting that its loss from continuing operations for its fiscal fourth quarter, ended in March, widened from a year earlier.
  17. He noted that western consumer and corporate confidence has been knocked and suggested that the car industry "seems to be heading for a grim fourth quarter" in 1991.
  18. The Salomon Brothers unit's fourth-quarter pretax profit of $27 million compared with a loss of $90 million in 1990's fourth quarter.
  19. It shows the economy growing at an annual rate of 0.3% in the second quarter, 2.0% in the third quarter and 2.8% in the fourth quarter.
  20. In the fourth period, sales of the giant American Capital Government Securities Fund slowed after its dividend was trimmed.
  21. The fourth director, Birmingham attorney J. Mason Davis, cited other time commitments in his resignation.
  22. Daniel served three two-year terms as governor from 1957-63 but lost an unprecedented bid for a fourth term in a Democratic primary race won by John Connally.
  23. UtiliCorp said despite the declines in the second quarter, it is still "on track" for a solid year, provided it receives adequate rate relief for its Missouri Public Service division in the fourth quarter.
  24. Ronnie, 7, died at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital in April 1987 while awaiting his fourth transplant.
  25. Volatile price movements this morning in the stock-index futures market tripped a "circuit breaker" for the fourth straight day _ only this time the market was moving higher instead of lower.
  26. Theorists of "race suicide" assumed that once a Romanian, always a Romanian, even unto the third and fourth generation.
  27. The fourth was flown in Wednesday on a US.
  28. More shares of common stock and equivalents were outstanding in last year's fourth quarter than in 1988, Shearson said.
  29. The purchase widens Montedison's presence in the domestic petroleum-products market, putting the company in fourth place.
  30. The work won the 1958 Nobel Prize, and is the fourth most popular book among Soviets.
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