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fours, plural;
  1. Equivalent to the product of two and two; one more than three, or six less than ten; 4
    • - Francesca's got four brothers
    • - it took four of them to lift it
    • - a four-bedroom house
  2. A group or unit of four people or things
    • - the girls walked in pairs or fours
  3. Four years old
    • - I began to teach myself to read at four
  4. Four o'clock
    • - it's half past four
  5. A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by four

  6. A playing card or domino with four spots or pips


  1. being one more than three
  2. the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
  3. four-spot: a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
  4. 4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following and preceding .
  5. Four (styled as four) is the breakthrough album by American jam band Blues Traveler, released on September 13, 1994 (see 1994 in music).
  6. Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. ...
  7. The Four are a group of fictional comic book supervillains from the series Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday. As with most characters in Planetary, they are analogues of previously created characters, in this case Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four from Marvel Comics. ...
  8. Boundary has two distinct meanings in the sport of cricket; # the edge or boundary of the playing field, and # a manner of scoring runs.
  9. 4 is the year 4 CE.
  10. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof; Anything measuring four units, as length; A person who is fours years old; 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. ...
  11. (Fours) Four-car-wide salute to the fans from the racers. Normally at the start of the night’s main event.
  12. (Fours) Four cards of the same denomination.
  13. (FOURS) Four oared shells, two on the port side, two on the starboard.  Most fours have coxswains, who either sit in the rear section of the shell or are semi prone on the forward section.
  14. (Fours (figure skating)) a discipline that is to pairs as pairs is to singles. A fours team consists of two men and two women who perform singles and pairs elements in unison as well as unique elements that involve all four skaters.
  15. (Fours) Each hole is worth 10 points: Lowest net=4, 2nd lowest net = 3, 3rd lowest net = 2, highest net = 1. Highest point total wins.
  16. (Fours) Romantics, Individualists, Artists Image File history File links Tragic_Romantic. ... The Enneagram Fours are a psychological type of the Enneagram of Personality. ...
  17. (Fours) when jazz ensemble players exchange leads every four bars, whether during a verse or a chorus, they are said to be 'trading fours'
  18. (fours) A musical device in which to or more soloists take turns improvising four measure phrases. Often, one of the musicians is the drummer.
  19. [constituents of] psychic power (riddhipada) are concentration due to zeal (chanda), energy (virya), purity of mind (chitta), and investigation (mimamsa). Part of the thirty-seven branches or factors of enlightenment.
  20. A sweep-oar boat for four rowers. There is competition for fours with coxswain and fours without coxswain.
  21. A shell with four rowers, each with one oar. The stroke or the bow steers the boat by a rudder, which is connect by a cable to their shoe. The rower then turns their foot to turn the rudder and steer the boat.
  22. Sacred as the number of the four cardinal points of the compass; denotes completeness and sufficiency. In cabalistic literature its sacredness isenhanced by the fact that the Tetragrammaton contains four letters. The number is found in Gen. ii. 10; Judges xi. 40; Jer. xv. 3; Ezek. xiv. 21; Zech. ...
  23. a team of four players whose positions in order of playing are named, Lead, Second, Third, Skip.
  24. indicates limitation. For example, catching the number 4 bus would indicate the dreamer is limiting their life journey through their actions or thoughts. A box or square also indicate limitation. This number is very common in dreams and is usually linked with other numbers. ...
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