quart
noun /kwɔːt/
/kwɔːrt/
(abbreviation qt)
Idioms - 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’.
Idioms
put 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.