- 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 measurementc2Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quartus ‘fourth’, from quattuor ‘four’.
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See quart in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryput a quart into a pint pot
- (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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