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Discover LudwigThe word 'four-by-four' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used in two ways: as a hyphenated adjective meaning "equipped with four-wheel drive" or as a noun referring to a vehicle with four-wheel drive. Example 1 (adjective): She loves to take her four-by-four truck off-roading in the mountains. Example 2 (noun): The family decided to upgrade to a four-by-four SUV for their road trip across the country.
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four-by-four
noun
A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a four-speed transmission.
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This method is used to construct numerical models of a four-by-four bay four-story modular steel building.
In our example we visualized a four-way interaction using a four-by-four matrix of levelplots.
Four-by-four versions can be shifted into four-wheel mode, or out of it, while moving ("on the fly").
The four-by-four, of course, had gone.
"He says a woman in a blue four-by-four is tailing him," Mr. Floyd reported.
The assignments were random, but the four-by-four symmetry was intentional.
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Then four by four.
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When the asylum seekers board the Ocean Protector they are stacked four by four.
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May 30-June 2: "Four by Four," Théâtre Officiel del Farfadet.
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