FOUR

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four I. numeral, adjectiv, pronume

patru.

four II. s.

1. (cifra) patru;

on all fours în patru labe, de-a buşilea;

to go on all fours a merge în patru labe, a merge de-a buşilea;

(fig.) on all fours with întru totul analog / simliar cu, întru totul pe potriva (cu gen.), identic cu;

is the copy on all fours with the original? este copia perfect identică cu originalul?;

a carriage and four o trăsură cu patru cai.

2. (fam.)barcă cu patru locuri; echipă de patru etc.

3. plural (mil.) formaţie de patru;

form fours! câte patru!

4. plural (ec.) acţiuni cu dobândă de patru la sută.

What do you say we call it four thousand?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

‘It’s only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,’ said I.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of what use the four walls without a roof?

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Here are four prints where the beast has been standing motionless.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It has been refused by four or five magazines now, but still I think it is good.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

How could he spring away with his four legs in the air above him?

(White Fang, de Jack London)

You might drag him at the heels of four wild horses first.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Only that there are four of them.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

We all four went into the room, but none of the others at first said anything.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“But this is talk; this don't lead to anything. I see three or four points, and with Mr. Trelawney's permission, I'll name them.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)