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Shorts vs Quarters - What's the difference?

shorts | quarters |

As nouns the difference between shorts and quarters

is that shorts is while quarters is .

shorts

English

(wikipedia shorts)

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • English plurals
  • Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.
    • Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts .
  • Underwear bottoms.
    • After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts .
  • (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
  • The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
  • * Halliwell
    • The first remove above bran is shorts .
  • Short, inferior hemp.

    • Derived terms

    * boardshorts * booty shorts * boxer shorts * swimshorts * sleep shorts

    Anagrams

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    quarters

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (pluralonly, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=1 citation , passage=“I have visited my quarters , and find them very comfortable.
  • A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
  • quarterfinals.