Monday, September 14, 2009

REGARDING THE DOWNLOAD and the word: QUARTER

The word "Quarter' is one that I usually use in terms of time or coinage. After this recent 'poetic download hit', that word (quarter) in such a context has felt distant...maybe too metaphorical. But,in trusting Amansha, I knew it that must somehow be appropriate.
Do you want to decipher it in context?
Wanna be a poet, psychic, devinor, or door opener? Remember that Amansha seems to love English word play. I have copied Webster's definition for you to decide:

quarter |ˈkwɔːtə|
noun
1 each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided : she cut each apple into quarters | a page and a quarter | a quarter of a mile.
• a period of three months regarded as one fourth of a year, used esp. in reference to financial transactions such as the payment of bills or a company's earnings : the payment for each quarter's electricity is made in the next quarter.
• a period of fifteen minutes or a point of time marking the transition from one fifteen-minute period to the next : the baby was born at a quarter past nine.
• a coin representing 25 cents, one fourth of a U.S. or Canadian dollar.
• each of the four parts into which an animal's or bird's carcass may be divided, each including a leg or wing.
• ( quarters) the haunches or hindquarters of a horse.
• one fourth of a lunar month.
• (in various sports) each of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
• one of four terms into which a school or college year may be divided.
2 one fourth of a measure of weight, in particular
• one fourth of a pound (avoirdupois, equal to 4 ounces).
• one fourth of a hundredweight ( U.S. 25 lb or Brit. 28 lb).
• Brit. a grain measure equivalent to 8 bushels.
3 [usu. with adj. or n. ] a part of a town or city having a specific character or use : it is a beautiful port city with a fascinating medieval quarter.
4 the direction of one of the points of the compass, esp. as a direction from which the wind blows.
• a particular but unspecified person, group of people, or area : we have just had help from an unexpected quarter.
• either side of a ship aft of the beam : he trained his glasses over the starboard quarter.
5 ( quarters) rooms or lodgings, esp. those allocated to servicemen or to staff in domestic service : the servants' quarters.
6 [usu. with neg. ] pity or mercy shown toward an enemy or opponent who is in one's power : the riot squad gave no quarter.
7 Heraldry each of four or more roughly equal divisions of a shield separated by vertical and horizontal lines.
• a square charge which covers the top left (dexter chief) quarter of the field.

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