The difference between Neighborhood and Quarter
When used as nouns, neighborhood means the quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other, whereas quarter means a quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents.
Quarter is also verb with the meaning: to divide into quarters.
Quarter is also adjective with the meaning: pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
check bellow for the other definitions of Neighborhood and Quarter
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Neighborhood as a noun (chiefly, obsolete):
The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
Examples:
"Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings."
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Neighborhood as a noun:
Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
Examples:
"He lives in my neighborhood."
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Neighborhood as a noun:
The inhabitants of a residential area.
Examples:
"The fire alarmed the neighborhood."
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Neighborhood as a noun:
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
Examples:
"We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood."
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Neighborhood as a noun:
An approximate amount.
Examples:
"He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year."
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Neighborhood as a noun:
The quality of physical proximity.
Examples:
"The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood."
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Neighborhood as a noun (obsolete):
The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
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Neighborhood as a noun (topology):
Within a topological space: A set containing an open set which contains some specified point. Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
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Neighborhood as a noun (topology):
Within a metric space: A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point. Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
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Neighborhood as a noun (topology):
The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
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Neighborhood as a noun (graph theory):
The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
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Quarter as an adjective:
Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
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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"
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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."
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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
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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.
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Quarter as a verb (transitive):
To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
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Quarter as a verb (transitive):
To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
Examples:
"'Quarter the horses in the third stable."
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Quarter as a verb (intransitive):
To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
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Quarter as a verb (transitive):
To quartersaw.
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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.