The difference between Quarter and Sum

When used as nouns, quarter means a quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents, whereas sum means a quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

When used as verbs, quarter means to divide into quarters, whereas sum means to add together.

Quarter is also adjective with the meaning: pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.

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  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.

  1. Sum as a noun:

    A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

    Examples:

    "The sum of 3 and 4 is 7."

  2. Sum as a noun (often plural):

    An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).

    Examples:

    "We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky."

  3. Sum as a noun:

    A quantity of money.

    Examples:

    "a tidy sum"

    "the sum of forty pounds"

  4. Sum as a noun:

    A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.

    Examples:

    "This is the sum of all the evidence in the case."

    "This is the sum and substance of his objections."

  5. Sum as a noun:

    A central idea or point.

  6. Sum as a noun:

    The utmost degree.

  7. Sum as a noun (obsolete):

    An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.

  1. Sum as a verb (transitive):

    To add together.

  2. Sum as a verb (transitive):

    To give a summary of.

  1. Sum as a noun:

    The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.

  2. Sum as a noun:

    The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.

  1. Sum as a pronoun (AAVE):

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