Difference between Billet and Quarter

What is the difference between Billet and Quarter?

Billet as a verb is to lodge soldiers, usually by order while Quarter as a verb is to divide into quarters.

Billet

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to lodge soldiers, usually by order to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a place where a soldier is assigned to lodge metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon

Quarter

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To divide into quarters.To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any one of four equal parts into which something has been divided.(United States and Canada) A coin worth 25 cents.A period of three consecutive months.A section or area (of a town, etc.).Accommodation granted to a defeated opponentAn old English measure of corn, containing 8 bushels.An old English measure of cloth, nine inches or four nails

Example sentence: Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

We hope you now know whether to use Billet or Quarter in your sentence.

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