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Fourth

//fɔːθ// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective

1
The ordinal form of the number four. not-comparable
"The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model."

Adjective

1
coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude wordnet

Adverb

1
in the fourth place wordnet

Proper Noun

1
The Fourth of July. US

Noun

1
The person or thing in the fourth position. singular
"We are one F and two M's seeking the company of a fourth (M or F) for our spacious and friendly Somerville apt."
2
the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it wordnet
3
A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole. US
4
one of four equal parts wordnet
5
The fourth gear of an engine. singular

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following the third position; number four in a countable series wordnet
7
A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
"Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth"
8
One sixtieth of a third or tierce. rare
"[…] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome."

Verb

1
To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded. informal
"If he remembered rightly what took place in the House on the first night of the session, the Attorney General would have to file an information, not only against the noble Lord who proposed the address, and the hon. Member for London who seconded it, but also against the hon. Member who thirded, and the noble Lord who fourthed it, and indeed against every Member in the House."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognates Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.

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