quartering

• accommodating
• billeting
• boarding
• camping
• housing
• lodging
• sheltering

• ejecting

• verb
  1. To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
  2. To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
  3. To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
  4. To quartersaw.
  5. 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.
• noun
  1. A division into four parts.
  2. The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
  3. The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
  4. The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
  5. One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
  6. A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
  7. The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
  8. Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.
• adjective
  1. Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
  2. At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.

• The soldiers were quartering in the nearby village during their training exercises.
• The map showed the quartering of the city into distinct zones for administrative purposes.
• As evening fell, the hunter found himself quartering through the dense forest in search of his prey.
• The medieval castle displayed the traditional arrangement of quartering different noble families' coats of arms.
• With precision, the chef began quartering the vegetables for tonight's stew.

halving

• bifurcating
• bisecting
• cleaving
• decoupling
• dichotomizing
• disassociating
• disconnecting
• dissecting
• dissociating
• dissolving
• dividing
• divorcing
• fractionating
• partitioning
• quartering
• resolving
• segmenting
• separating
• severing
• splitting
• subdividing
• trisecting

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