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Definition: Quarter Mile |
Quarter MileNoun1. A unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Quarter MileSynonym: 440 yards (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | All right get that gun down this hill until it's a quarter mile from town. (Charro!; writing credit: Frederick Louis Fox; Charles Marquis Warren) I live my life a quarter mile at a time, nothing else matters, for those ten seconds or less, I'm free. (The Fast and the Furious; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson) | |
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 | Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Area has been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rent is eight dollars. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The roads are so bad to the transient camp at Hagerman Lake, Michigan, that it is necessary to haul supplies by mud sled for the last quarter mile. The camp has no telephone system and no resident doctor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Darktown athletics-a quarter mile dash: One has de speed and del oder de bottom. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-q-r-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: materiel, miquelet, murrelet, qualmier, quartile, realtime, remarque, requital, requiter, retailer, ruralite, ureteral. | |
-4 letters: alerter, alterer, atelier, earlier, emerita, emirate, emulate, eremuri, erratum, learier, liquate, maltier, marlier, marlite, marquee, maturer, mealier, meatier, miterer, muriate, quarrel, quarter, querier, quieter, quilter, realter, relater, relique, requiem, require, requite, retrial, tearier, tequila, trailer, trireme, uralite. | |
-5 letters: aerier, amulet. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)51 75 61 72 74 65 72 4D 69 6C 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010001 01110101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01001101 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Q u a r t e r   M i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0051 0075 0061 0072 0074 0065 0072 004D 0069 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)51876784867184247757871 |
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