Crossword clues for quart
quart
- Ice cream buy
- Gallon fraction
- Ice cream quantity
- 946 liter
- Strawberry package
- Soy milk carton unit
- Pickle measure
- Part of a peck
- Oil change unit
- Not quite a liter
- Motor oil buy
- Milk quantity
- Litre's predecessor
- Liquid imperial measure
- Imperial measure
- Eighth of a peck
- Common dairy quantity
- A couple of pints
- A bit less than a liter
- 1/4 gallon
- 1 ____=1.13662 Litres
- Oil can, maybe
- .946 liter
- Almost a liter
- Milk purchase, at times
- Eight gills
- Berries buy, at a supermarket
- Two 55-Downs
- A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters
- A United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches
- One-eighth of a peck
- Liter's cousin
- Two pints
- Oil or milk measure
- Part of a gallon
- Gallon, less 75%
- Bottle size
- Liquid measure
- Ice cream purchase
- Milk buy
- Liquid measurement
- Ice cream choice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quart \Quart\, n. [F. quart, n. masc., fr. L. quartus the fourth, akin to quattuor four. See Four, and cf. 2d Carte, Quarto.] The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
Camber did possess the western quart.
--Spenser.
Quart \Quart\, n. [F. quarte, n. fem., fr. quart fourth. See Quart a quarter.]
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A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
Note: In imperial measure, a quart is forty English fluid ounces; in wine measure, it is thirty-two American fluid ounces. The United States dry quart contains 67.20 cubic inches, the fluid quart 57.75. The English quart contains 69.32 cubic inches.
A vessel or measure containing a quart.
Quart \Quart\, n. [See Quart a quarter.]
In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf.
Tierce, 4.
--Hoyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one-fourth of a gallon," early 14c., from Old French quarte "a fourth part" (13c.), from Latin quarta (pars), from fem. of quartus "the fourth," related to quattuor "four," from PIE root *kewtwor- (see four). Compare Latin quartarius "fourth part," also the name of a small liquid measure (the fourth part of a sextarius), which was about the same as an English pint.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S. 2 (context cards English) Four successive cards of the same suit. 3 (context obsolete English) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
WordNet
n. a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters
a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches [syn: dry quart]
Wikipedia
The quart is a unit of volume (for either the imperial or United States customary units) equal to a quarter of a gallon (hence the name quart), two pints, or four cups. Since gallons of various sizes have historically been in use, quarts of various sizes have also existed; see gallon for further discussion. Three of these kinds of quarts remain in current use, all approximately equal to one litre. Its usual abbreviation is qt.
Quart is an imperial and US customary unit of volume.
Quart may also refer to:
- Quart, a coin worth of a Gibraltarian real
- Quart Festival, a music festival in Norway
- Quart, a proposed metric typographic unit
Usage examples of "quart".
There was an opened quart of a very fine whisky in the cupboard, and Bingo looked at it speculatively.
Jesus, have they got a lot of booze in here, and a lot of it is bottom-line tubs of Nigerian sherry, quarts of Alaskan port.
Boil down half a pound of the bruised fresh herb in a gallon of distilled water to two quarts, and give from one to three pints in the twenty-four hours.
To one quart of this pulp and juice add one tablespoon of cinnamon, one of black pepper and one of mustard, one teaspoon of cayenne, one-half cup of salt and two onions chopped fine.
She has drunk 1,2 quarts from the nipples and has defecated once on the brown floor.
Horsey tosses a coin for the first pick, and Joel Duffle says heads, and it is heads, and he chooses, as the first course, two quarts of ripe olives, twelve bunches of celery, and four pounds of shelled nuts, all this to be split fifty-fifty between them.
Joel Duffle says two dozen ears of corn on the cob, and Violette replies with two quarts of lima beans.
As he topped off the tank, squeezing the trigger to fire additional quart or half-gallon bursts of gasohol down the pipe, he heard loud Patsy Cline music spilling out of an open door on the side of the cowgirl bar.
He first rinsed his mouth, spit out the pinkish fluid, then threw back his head and avidly guzzled at least half the quart of tepid brandy-water, and it was only then that he became fully aware of his surroundings.
She has urinated several times on the brown but we are unable to measure its volume, though it is certain to be well over 1,2 quarts.
I lunged out at him, and instead of attempting to parry he replied in quart.
The rabid little American I call Paul Lazzaro in this book had about a quart of diamonds and emeralds and rubies and so on.
There was a scupping sound as he attacked his oat porridge -- a heaping quart of which, lubricated with a lump of oleomargarine the size of a cricket ball, constituted his time-honored breakfast.
Chiz started in on the second quart of chicken gobs, he was no longer thinking about Puma wasting away in a jail cell.
Then the process was repeated with the other hand, and a quart of the saponaceous mush was packed in the right hand pocket Shortly after Wirz rose and ordered a guard to take me away and keep me, until he decided what to do with me.