different between four vs methera

Translingual

Etymology

From English four

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fo.?] ^[sic]

Numeral

four

1. Code word for the digit 4 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word kartefour

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English four, from Old English f?ower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedw?r, from previous pre-Grimm *petw?r, from Proto-Indo-European *k?etw?r, the neuter form of *k?etwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fô, IPA^(key): /f??/
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fo(?)?/
• (US)
  • (General American) enPR: fôr, IPA^(key): /f??/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: f?r, IPA^(key): /fo(?)?/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo?/
  • (without horse–hoarse merger)
  • (with horse–hoarse merger)
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /fo?/
• Rhymes: -???(r), -??(?)
• Homophones: fore, for (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Numeral

four

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)

   There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

   • Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fourth

Descendants

Translations

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
• Last: three, 3
• Next: five, 5

Noun

four (countable and uncountable, plural fours)

1. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.

   Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

3. A person who is four years old.

   I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

4. (cricket, countable) 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.
5. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
6. (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
   1. The shell itself.

   2. The crew rowing in a four boat.

   3. (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.

7. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, IV:

     I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.

Derived terms

• (numeral): rouf (back slang)

Translations

See also

Pages starting with “four”.

Anagrams

• furo, rouf, uORF

French

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *g??r?-nós, from *g??er- (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

four m (plural fours)

1. oven
2. stove
3. flop

Derived terms

• au four
• avoir une brioche au four
• enfourner
• être au four et au moulin
• four à micro-ondes
• gant de four
• noir comme dans un four
• petit four

Related terms

• fournaise
• fourneau

Further reading

• “four” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin foris, foras. Compare Italian fuori, Friulian fûr, Dalmatian fure, Venetian fora.

Adverb

four

1. out, outside

Preposition

four

1. out, outside

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fore, feour, fower, fowwre, foure, fowr, vour

Etymology

From Old English fe?wer

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?fø?w?r/
• IPA^(key): /?f?ur/

Numeral

four

1. four

Related terms

• ferthe
• fourtene

Descendants

• English: four
  • Northumbrian: fower
• Scots: fower
• Yola: vower, vour, voure

Norman

Alternative forms

• fou (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

four m (plural fours)

1. (Guernsey) oven

Walloon

Noun

four m (plural fours)

1. hay

English

Alternative forms

• mether (Teesdale, Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales)

Etymology

From Brythonic numerals. Compare to Welsh mhedwerydd, nasal mutation of pedwerydd.

Numeral

methera

1. (Cumbria) four in sheep counting of Northern England.

Derived terms

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• Wright, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007) , Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number?^[1], Australian Council for Educational Research, ?ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide?^[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, ?ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, pages 24-25

Anagrams

• erathem, mathree, meather, thermae