Definition of four-four in English English dictionary
- four-four time
- A meter or rhythm with four beats to a measure and four beats to a whole note. Specifically simple quadruple time or common time
- Fab Four
- The Beatles
- Final Four
- The final two rounds of the NCAA Division I tournament
- Final Four
- The final round of the continent-wide Euroleague club basketball competition, featuring four teams with one becoming champion
- Final Four
- An appearance in the Final Four
These two teams have an amazing number of Final Fours between them.
- Final Four
- The four regional champions of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion
- Four Horsemen
- Alternative form of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Harbingers of doom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction
has identified four types of communication, which he calls the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, that are signs of a marriage having problems.
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Four beings in Revelation 6: 1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each riding a different-colored horse representing a different aspect of the Apocalypse
- Four-Corner
- A method of encoding Chinese characters using four numerical digits per character (in some situations, an additional digit is used)
- Frozen Four
- The final two rounds of the NCAA Division I tournament
- Frozen Four
- The four regional champions of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion
- Frozen Four
- An appearance in the Frozen Four
These two teams have an amazing number of Frozen Fours between them.
- Gang of Four
- A leftist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- back four
- The set of defenders in a team
it was a comfortable evening for the Gunners back four.
- clue-by-four
- An object used when roughly imparting clue to the clueless
Sometimes the magic clue-by-four is so obvious that even your oblivious rock-headed uncle picks up on it.
- coxless four
- A boat, used in competitive rowing, having four rowers, each with a single oar
- coxless four
- A race in which such craft participate
- eighty-four
- The cardinal number immediately following eighty-three and preceding eighty-five
- fifty-four
- The cardinal number immediately following fifty-three and preceding fifty-five
- flat back four
- collectively, a set of defenders who stay on the same level on the pitch
- forty-four
- A .44 Magnum handgun
- forty-four
- The cardinal number immediately following forty-three and preceding forty-five
- four
- Describing a set or group with four components
- four
- A four-pennyworth of spirits
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.
- four
- Quadruple sculls
- four
- Anything measuring four units, as length
Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
- four
- The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof
- four
- 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.
- four
- An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, 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
- four
- A person who is fours years old
I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
- four L
- A law student in his or her fourth year of law school; generally an unusual situation occurring where a student has either taken an extended part-time curriculum, or has failed a class needed for graduation and must stay on for an extra semester after the three L year
- four by two
- A Jew
- four by two
- a length of sawn wood, of cross section 4 inches by 2 inches, most often employed as structural framing lumber (dimension or dimensional lumber)
- four by twos
- plural form of four by two
- four door house
- A house with four doors, specifically a house with a garage, a garage door that connects to the home, a front door, and a back door
- four fingers
- The sign made by the manager directing the pitcher to issue an intentional walk
Four fingers are up for Jones because the weak-hitting Smith will follow.
- four foot
- the space between the rails on a standard gauge railway line
The car came to rest with its front wheels in the four foot of the nearest railway line, the down Leeds line.
- four hundred
- The cardinal number occurring after three hundred ninety-nine and before four hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 400
- four o'clock
- The start of the fifth hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 4: 00
- four of a kind
- Four cards of the same rank
- four oh four
- in America for naive or clueless
Yup, clueless in Seatle, a 404 if I ever saw one.
- four one one
- information
Can you give me the 411 for their next concert?.
- four pips
- four of a kind, aces
- four score and seven years ago
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- four score and seven years ago
- As an opener, a sometimes sarcastic indicator to indicate a past event being mentioned is particularly important
- four score seven years ago
- Alternative form of four score and seven years ago
- four sheets to the wind
- Extremely drunk
He would flee the apartment when the baby fussed and cried, only to return much later four sheets to the wind.
- four square
- A sport played by four players where players have to hit a ball into other people's squares, and attempt to make a return hit
- four thousand
- 4,000
- four-acceleration
- A four-vector that describes the change in a particle's four-velocity over time
- four-and-twenty
- Twenty-four
Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
- four-bagger
- A home run
Jones popped a four-bagger into the upper-deck in the fifth.
- four-ball
- A game of golf between two pairs of golfers in which the better score for each pair of players at each hole is counted
- four-by-four
- By extension, any four-wheel-drive vehicle
- four-by-four
- A four-wheel vehicle with four-wheel-drive
- four-by-four
- A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a four-speed transmission
- four-dimensional
- Having four dimensions; being measurable along four mutually perpendicular axes
- four-dimensional
- Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth)
We live in a four-dimensional universe.
- four-door
- A motor car with four doors
- four-eyed fish
- A genus Anableps of fish in the family Anablepidae having eyes raised above the top of the head and divided in two different parts, so that they can see below and above the water surface at the same time
- four-eyed fishes
- plural form of four-eyed fish
- four-eyes
- A person who wears spectacles
- four-flush
- To bluff, especially in poker
- four-flusher
- A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one
- four-foot
- Alternative spelling of four foot
- four-footed
- Having four feet; quadruped
- four-force
- A four-vector that describes the change in a particle's four-momentum over time
- four-in-hand
- A carriage drawn by four such horses; a coach-and-four
- four-in-hand
- A slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie
- four-in-hand
- A team of four horses, controlled by a single driver
- four-leaf
- Of a plant, having four leaves
- four-leaf clover
- An uncommon variation of the clover, having four leaves instead of the usual three
- four-leaf clover
- A bringer of good luck
- four-leaf clovers
- plural form of four-leaf clover
- four-leaved
- Of a plant, having four leaves
- four-legged
- Of an animal, having four legs
- four-letter word
- A swearword or any words considered to be taboo in a given scenario, (regardless of how many letters are actually in the word or words in question)
To me, coming from you, 'Friend' is a four letter word. - Friend Is a Four-Letter Word, Cake.
- four-letter word
- A reference to any of several of the strongest English swearword that are also four letters long, especially those composing the so-called seven dirty words
- four-letter words
- plural form of four-letter word
- four-master
- A large four-masted sailboat
- four-momentum
- A generalization of momentum in four-dimensional spacetime
- four-o'clock
- Any of several plants, of the genus ''Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon
- four-on-the-floor
- A four-speed manual transmission mounted beside the driver on the floor of the vehicle
- four-on-the-floor
- A steady, uniformly accented beat with a 4/4 time signature
- four-peat
- A fourth successive win
- four-peat
- To win somethings four times consecutively
- four-poster
- A four-poster bed
- four-poster
- Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper
- four-seam fastball
- A backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
The pitcher had a blazing four-seamer.
- four-seam fastballs
- plural form of four-seam fastball
- four-seamer
- A four-seam fastball
- four-stroke engine
- An engine in which the pistons perform four strokes per engine cycle (i.e. intake, compression, power, exhaust)
- four-stroke engines
- plural form of four-stroke engine
- four-stroking
- A type of abnormal operation of a two-stroke internal combustion engine where the cylinder only fires every second cycle (like a four-stroke engine does). This occurs when the exhaust scavenging and inlet charging leaves a mixture in the cylinder which does not ignite, but needs a second scavenge/charge to produce an adequate mix
- four-vector
- A vector in four-dimensional vector space, especially one having three spatial and one temporal dimensions
- four-velocity
- A generalization of velocity in four-dimensional spacetime
- four-wheel
- Having a transmission that drives all four wheels
- four-wheel
- Having four wheels
- four-wheel drive
- A four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously
- four-wheeled
- Having four wheels
- four-wheeler
- Any vehicle with four wheels
- four-wheeler
- A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart
At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
- ninety-four
- The cardinal number immediately following ninety-three and preceding ninety-five
- petit four
- A small cake generally eaten at the end of a meal or served as part of a large buffet
- seventy-four
- The cardinal number immediately following seventy-three and preceding seventy-five
- seventy-four
- A ship having seventy-four guns
the ocean stream / Here and there studded with a seventy-four .
- sixty-four
- The cardinal number immediately following sixty-three and preceding sixty-five
- thirty-four
- The cardinal number immediately following thirty-three and preceding thirty-five
- twenty-four
- The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five
- twenty-four seven
- Constantly, without interruption
They're open twenty-four seven, you can go there any time you want.
- twenty-four seven
- An abbreviation which stands for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week", including holidays and days otherwise that may alter limitations of work. In commerce and industry, it identifies a round-the-clock service, as might be offered by a supermarket, ATM, gas station, concierge service or manned data center
- two by four
- A length of sawn wood of cross section 2 inches by 4 inches, most often employed as structural framing lumber (dimension or dimensional lumber)
- two-by-four
- measuring two inches by four inches
- two-by-four
- A length of timber having this cross section. (Note: often this is dimensional lumber that was this size BEFORE being planed to finished form, which removes a quarter inch from each side.)
- two-by-four
- small or cramped
- two-four
- A case of 24 bottles of beer
- two-by-four
- piece of wood that is four units wide and two units thick; narrow, tight (Informal); lack of importance (Informal)
- four-hand
- designed for four hands "a four-hand piano piece"
- four-handed
- designed for four hands "a four-handed piano piece"
- four-handed
- engaged in by four persons "a four-handed card game"
- four-on-the-floor
- (Argo) gear shift with four forward gears located on the floor of a car (as opposed to "three-on-the-tree")
- train-of-four
- (Tıp, İlaç) A test for measuring the level of neuromuscular blockade. Four consecutive stimuli are delivered along the path of a nerve, and the response of the muscle is measured in order to evaluate stimuli that are blocked versus those that are delivered. Four equal muscle contractions will result if there is no neuromuscular blockade, but, if nondepolarizing blockade is present, there will be a loss of twitch height and number, which will indicate the degree of blockade. This test is commonly used in intensive care units
- train-of-four test
- (Tıp, İlaç) A test for measuring the level of neuromuscular blockade. Four consecutive stimuli are delivered along the path of a nerve, and the response of the muscle is measured in order to evaluate stimuli that are blocked versus those that are delivered. Four equal muscle contractions will result if there is no neuromuscular blockade, but, if nondepolarizing blockade is present, there will be a loss of twitch height and number, which will indicate the degree of blockade. This test is commonly used in intensive care units
- four-by-four
- large four-wheeled vehicle having front wheel suspension
- four-by-four
- a vehicle that has four wheels and a four-wheel drive