four meaning
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FR four 

- NounPLfours
- NC The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- NC Anything measuring four units, as length.
- Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
- A person who is four years old.
- I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
- (cricket) NC 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.
- (basketball) NC A power forward.
- (rowing) Quadruple sculls.
- OBS A four-pennyworth of spirits.
- NC The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The castle had four stairtowers when it was built, but only two remain.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
- After four to eight days of incubation, this biolung was grafted on to a rat.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Four aircraft - including two air cranes - are currently waterbombing the area, [ … ] .
- Four equally spaced bolt holes on a bolt circle can be dimensioned at one hole with the notation (TYP) following it.
- Four small suspension bridges, complete with towers and cables like those on the span across the East River, are now encased inside the Capitol’s subbasement understructure.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Against all odds the small community college ended up in the NCAA final four.
- They were lowbrow pastiche. The Adventures of Vicarage Leadbetter, a low-budget pisstake of Sherlock Holmes written for Radio Four.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of four in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Numerals
- Nouns
- fr four
- en fourth
- en fourteenth
- en four-legged
- en foursome
Source: Wiktionary

