What does "quart" mean?
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.
Quart
/kwɔːt/ adj, adv, name, noun, verb
adj, adv, name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: quart is listed as adj, adv, name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: barrel, bushel, cord, cubic foot.
- Useful contrasts: hogshead.
- Usage evidence: Two pints are equal to a quart.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 Safety, soundness; health. obsolete, uncountable
"Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart."
- 3 a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon wordnet
- 4 Four successive cards of the same suit.
"A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major."
- 5 a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches wordnet
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- 6 A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. obsolete
"Camber did possesse the Westerne quart."
- 7 a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters wordnet
- 8 The fourth defensive position; quarte.
"[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another."
Verb
- 1 To thwart. dialectal
Adjective
- 1 Safe, sound; healthy. dialectal, obsolete
- 2 Transverse. dialectal
- 3 Contentious or quarrelsome. dialectal
Adverb
- 1 Crosswise; across. dialectal
Proper Noun
- 1 A comune of the Aosta Valley autonomous region, Italy.
- 2 A municipality of Gironès, Comarques Gironines, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
- 3 A surname
- 4 A surname:; Josie Alice Quart (1895–1980), Canadian senator
Synonyms
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Example
"Two pints are equal to a quart."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "quart"?
Common synonyms include: barrel, bushel, cord, cubic foot, cubic meter, cup.
How do you use "quart" in a sentence?
Two pints are equal to a quart.
How do you pronounce "quart"?
Pronounced /kwɔːt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”).
Etymology 3
Dialectal alteration of thwart.
Etymology 4
From quārtum (“fourth”), that is town on the fourth Roman mile from the city of Girona, v.DCVB