British quart

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• quart — quart1 [kwôrt] n. [ME < MFr quarte < fem. of OFr quart, a fourth < L quartus, fourth < base of quattuor,FOUR] 1. a) a unit of liquid measure, equal to 1/ 4 of a liquid gallon or 2 liquid pints or 32 fluid ounces (0.94635 liquid… …   English World dictionary

• quart — quart1 /kwawrt/, n. 1. a unit of liquid measure of capacity, equal to one fourth of a gallon, or 57.749 cubic inches (0.946 liter) in the U.S. and 69.355 cubic inches (1.136 liters) in Great Britain. 2. a unit of dry measure of capacity, equal to …   Universalium

• quart — (qt)    1. a traditional unit of volume, so called because it equals exactly 1/4 (one quarter) of a gallon. However, there are several possible gallons to consider: in the U. S. customary measure system for liquid volumes (such as milk, for… …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• British Imperial and U.S. Customary systems of weights and measures — ▪ Table British Imperial and U.S. Customary systems of weights and measures unit abbreviation or symbol equivalents in other units of same system metric equivalent Weight Avoirdupois1 avdp ton   short ton 20 short hundredweight, or 2,000 pounds 0 …   Universalium

• Quart — The quart [The term comes from the Latin (meaning one quarter) via the French . However, although the French word quart has the same root, it frequently means something entirely different. In Canadian French in particular, the quart is called… …   Wikipedia

• quart — 1. A measure of fluid capacity; the fourth part of a gallon; the equivalent of 0.9468 liter. An imperial q. contains about 20% more than the ordinary q., or 1.1359 liters. 2. A dry measure holding a little more than the fluid measure. [L. quartus …   Medical dictionary

• British capacity unit — noun a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet • Syn: ↑Imperial capacity unit • Hypernyms: ↑liquid unit, ↑liquid measure, ↑dry unit, ↑dry measure • Hyponyms …   Useful english dictionary

• imperial quart — imperial quart, the British quart, one fourth of an imperial gallon …   Useful english dictionary

• Winchester quart —    an informal British unit of volume used for certain chemicals shipped in cylindrical, narrow necked bottles. A Winchester quart originally held 2 British Imperial quarts (about 2.273 liters); now it generally holds exactly 2.5 liters. This… …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• Cooper Island (British Virgin Islands) — Cooper Island. For the Island in South Georgia, see Cooper Island. For the islet in the US Minor Outlying Islands, see Palmyra Atoll. Cooper Island …   Wikipedia

• get a quart into a pint pot — get/put a quart into a pint pot British to try to put too much of something into a small space. I m trying to get this huge pile of clothes crammed into these two drawers. Talk about trying to get a quart into a pint pot! …   New idioms dictionary