Four vs Tetrasepalous - What's the difference?
four | tetrasepalous |
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
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Describing a set or group with four components.
(countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
(countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
A person who is four years old.
(cricket, countable) 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.
(rowing) Quadruple sculls.
(obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , IV:
As a numeral four
is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the number after three and before five; two plus two this many dots (••••).As a noun four
is (countable) the digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.As an adjective tetrasepalous is
(botany) having four sepals.four
English
(wikipedia four)Numeral
(head)- There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four —on up to sixteen.
Derived terms
* on all fours * back four * four-bagger * four-ball * four-by-four/ * four-color/four-colour * four-dimensional * four-eyes * four-flush * fourfold * fourfooted/four-footed * four-handed * four horsemen * four hundred * four-in-hand * four-leaf clover * four-letter word * fourling * four-o'clock * four of a kind * four-on-the-floor * fourpence * fourpenny * fourplex * four-post bed * four-poster * four-pounder * fourscore * foursquare * four square * foursome * four-star * four-wheel drive * four-wheeler * two-by-fourDescendants
See also
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* Last: three, 3 * Next: five, 5Noun
- Do you have any more fours ? I want to make this a little taller.
- I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
- 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.