four

名词 n. 数词 num.
[fɔː]|[foː]    [foː]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof. countable
  2. Anything measuring four units, as length. countable
    — Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
  3. Four o'clock. countable,uncountable
    — Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four.
  4. A person who is four years old. countable,uncountable
    — I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
  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. countable
  6. A power forward. countable
  7. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.; The shell itself. countable,uncountable
    — The team bought a new four last season.
  8. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.; The crew rowing in a four boat. countable,uncountable
    — Our four won both races.
  9. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.; A regatta event for four boats. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — We got third place in the varsity four.
  10. A four-pennyworth of spirits. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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.
数词 num.
  1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
    — There are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
  2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

词形变化

fower alternative,Northumbria fouh alternative,pronunciation-spelling fours plural fower alternative,Northumbria fouh alternative,pronunciation-spelling

词汇关系

衍生词
all-fours all fours all-run four back four be lost to the four winds between you and me and these four walls boundary four chaise and four clue-by-four clue by four coach and four coxless four cul-de-four figure four finger-four flat back four four-acceleration Fouracre four ale four-ale four-ale bar four-and-nine four and twenty four-and-twenty Four Ashes four-bagger four-ball fourball four-belt four-by-four 4X4 four-by-two four by two four color four-color four-colour four color problem four color theorem four corners Four Crosses four-current four-cycle four-day weekend four-dimensional four-dimensional chess four-dimensionalism four-dimensionality four-dimensionally four-door four door house four-eyed four-eyed fish four-eye principle four eyes four-eyes four-fifths four figures four fingers four flat Four Floors of Whores four flush four-flush four-flusher fourfold four-fold four-foot four foot fourfooted four-footed four-force four-four time four F's fourgie fourgon fourgram four-half fourhanded four-handed four-hankie four horsemen four hundred four-in-hand fourish four L Four Lane Ends four-leaf four-leaf clover four-leafed clover four-leaved clover four-legged four-legged emmet four-legged friend four-letter four-letter man four-letter word four-lined wave fourling Four Marks four-master Four Mile Creek four-minute warning four-momentum four more years fourness Four Oaks four o'clock four-o'clock four o'clock flower four-o'clock flower four-of-a-kind four of a kind four oh four four one one four-on-the-floor four on the floor fourpartite four-peat fourpeat fourpence fourpenny four penny nail four-penny nail fourpiece four pips fourplay fourplex four-point four-point Calvinist four-post bed four-poster four-poster bed four-pounder four-quadrant four-ring Four-Russians four-score four score fourscore four score and seven years ago four score and ten four score seven years ago four-seamer four-seam fastball four-seater four-sheet four sheets in the wind four sheets to the wind Four Shire Stone four-shooter four-sided foursies foursome four-speed fourspine four-square foursquare four square four-stacker four-star four-string banjo four-string guitar four-stroke four-stroke engine four-stroking fourteen fourth four thieves' vinegar four thousand fourtino four-top four-to-the-floor four-track four-tracked four-tracking four treasures of the study four-twenty four twenty four-vector four-velocity four-wall four-waller four-walling four-way four-way cock four-way stop four-way switch four-wheel four-wheel drive four-wheel-drive four-wheeled four-wheeler four-wheeling four winds hat gang of four grade four history of the four kings last four match-four game Mother Thumb and her four daughters number four on all fours on fours piano four hands plus fours rare as a four-leaf clover rule of four stretch four sweet four o'clock ten-four thirty-four three-four time train-of-four twenty-four hour day two by four two-by-four two-four two-four time vanish to the four winds vinegar of the four thieves within the four seas rouf

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*kʷetwóres
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr
Proto-West Germanic *feuwar
Old English fēower
Middle English four
English four
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, Welsh pedwar, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
词源 2
PIE word
*kʷetwóres
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr
Proto-West Germanic *feuwar
Old English fēower
Middle English four
English four
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, Welsh pedwar, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
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