four

From Енглески four.

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈfaʊ.ə/, /ˈfɔ.ə/^[1]

four

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the numeral 4.

   Синоним: kartefour (ITU/IMO)

ен+нг=енг

From Средњи Енглески four, from Стари Енглески fēower, from Пра-Западно Германски *feuwar, from Пра-Германски *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Дублети of cuatro and quatre.

Cognates include West Frisian fjouwer, Холандски and Немачки vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Дански fire, Шведски fyra, Готски 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Латински quattuor (whence Шпански cuatro, Француски quatre), Антички Грчки τέσσαρες (téssares), Ирски ceathair, Јерменски չորս (čʿors), Lithuanian keturi, Албански katër, Санскрт चतुर् (catur).

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fô, МФА^(кључ): /fɔː/
  • (Scotland) МФА^(кључ): /fo(ː)ɹ/
• (US)
  • (General American) enPR: fôr, МФА^(кључ): /fɔɹ/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fōr, МФА^(кључ): /fo(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) МФА^(кључ): /foə/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) МФА^(кључ): /foː/

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• Риме: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: fore, for, foure (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

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.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Grey Riders

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

2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

• fourth

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

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.

      The team bought a new four last season.

   2. The crew rowing in a four boat.

      Our four won both races.

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

      We got third place in the varsity four.

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.

• (numeral): rouf (back slang)

Pages starting with "four".

• Rufo, furo, rouf, rufo-, uORF ^{(alphagram foru)}

From Стари Француски forn, from Латински furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).

• МФА^(кључ): /fuʁ/

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• Риме: -uʁ

four m (plural fours)

1. oven
2. stove
3. flop

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

• fournaise
• fourneau

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

From Латински foris, foras. Compare Италијански fuori, Friulian fûr, Dalmatian fure, Venetian fora.

four

1. out, outside

four

1. out, outside

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

From Стари Енглески feōwer.

• МФА^(кључ): /fɔu̯r/, /fuːr/^[1]
• (early) МФА^(кључ): /ˈføːwər/

four

1. four^[2]
   • Шаблон:RQ:Wycliffe NT Lichfield

• ferthe
• fourtene
• fourty

• Енглески: four
  • Northumbrian: fower
• Шкотски: fower
• Yola: vour

• fou (Jersey)

From Стари Француски forn, from Латински furnus.

four m (plural fours)

1. (Guernsey) oven

four m (plural fours)

1. hay