The difference between Ghetto and Quarter

When used as nouns, ghetto means an (often walled) area of a city in which jews are concentrated by force and law, whereas quarter means a quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents.

When used as verbs, ghetto means to confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto, whereas quarter means to divide into quarters.

When used as adjectives, ghetto means of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general, whereas quarter means pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.


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  1. Ghetto as a noun:

    An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.

  2. Ghetto as a noun:

    An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.

  3. Ghetto as a noun:

    An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.

  4. Ghetto as a noun (figurative, sometimes, _, pejorative):

    An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

  1. Ghetto as an adjective:

    Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.

  2. Ghetto as an adjective (slang, informal):

    Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

    Examples:

    "My apartment's so [[ghetto]], the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!"

    "I like to drive [[ghetto]] cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!"

  3. Ghetto as an adjective (US, informal):

    Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.

  4. Ghetto as an adjective:

    Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

  1. Ghetto as a verb:

    To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

  1. Quarter as an adjective:

    Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.

  2. Quarter as an adjective (chiefly):

    Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).

    Examples:

    "a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound"

  3. Quarter as an adjective (chiefly):

    Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.

    Examples:

    "A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year."

    "A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter."

  1. Quarter as a noun (now, _, primarily, financial):

    Any fourth of something, particularly: A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada. A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season. The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for measures of wine, ale, and grain The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year. A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side. A period into which a game is divided. . quarterfinal

  2. Quarter as a noun (usually plural):

    Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly: A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole. A living place, from which: # A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant. #* |title=No More Parades|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2012|chapter=Parade's End|page=360|passage=Tietjens said: ‘Send the Canadian sergeant-major to me at the double….' to the quarter.}} # Amity, friendship, concord; accommodation given to a defeated opponent, mercy. #* #* and yet kept good quarter between themselves.}} #* The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin. The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.

  1. Quarter as a verb (transitive):

    To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

  2. Quarter as a verb (transitive):

    To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.

    Examples:

    "'Quarter the horses in the third stable."

  3. Quarter as a verb (intransitive):

    To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

  4. Quarter as a verb (transitive):

    To quartersaw.

  1. Quarter as a verb (obsolete):

    To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.