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Definition of quart noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

quart

noun
 
/kwɔːt/
 
/kwɔːrt/
(abbreviation qt)
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  1. a unit for measuring liquids, equal to 2 pints or about 1.14 litres in the UK and Canada, and 0.95 of a litre in the USTopics Maths and measurementc2
    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quartus ‘fourth’, from quattuor ‘four’.
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put a quart into a pint pot
  1. (British English) to put something into a space that is too small for it
    • Writing a history of the world in a single volume is like putting a quart into a pint pot.
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