Definition of quart in English:

quart

noun kwɔːtkwɔrt

1A unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in Britain to approximately 1.13 litres and in the US to approximately 0.94 litre.
夸脱（液量单位，等于1/4加仑或2品脱，英制约等于1.13升，美制约等于0.94升）
two quarts of milk
Example sentencesExamples
- Milk products are packaged 16 quarts or four gallons to a case and automatic stackers stack them six high.
- In the main filling room, gallons, half gallons, pints, quarts and half-pints are filled.
- In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts.
- In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment.
- Before conception, women need 1,200 mg of calcium per day, or the equivalent of a quart of milk or fortified orange juice, or six servings of fortified bread or cereals.
- Has the person been drinking at least one and a half quarts of liquid each day?
- Young men tending camel herds during the rainy season may drink up to ten quarts of milk a day.
- The elimination of the previous ‘gull wing’ oil pan design reduces the engine's oil capacity from 6.5 quarts to 5.5 quarts with a dry filter.
- The total capacity of the storage tank, two quarts heated up to 190 degrees, halves the time required to boil four quarts of water for making pasta.
- Dairy processors are experimenting with four-, six- and eight- packs of halfpint and pints in distribution channels such as club stores as well as two-pack gallons and quarts for supermarkets.
- The Paint Spot caters to both the professional and the hobbyist, selling paint in pints, quarts and gallons for you mural-painters.
- Bring four quarts of water to a boil and add two tablespoons salt.
- Surfactants are usually used at 1 / 4% by spray volume or 1 quart per 100 gallons of spray mixture.
- Offering fresh fruits and vegetables, neighborhood crafts, and a place to gather, a neighborhood store provides employment and eliminates the need to burn a quart of gasoline to pick up a quart of milk.
- For a gallon mixture: three quarts of hot water, add one quart of bleach.
- ESL technology allows the company to ship ultra-pasteurized milk in gallons and quarts via refrigerated cargo containers to the Philippines, for example, to provide fresh product in a country where that is a rare commodity.
- The plant fills an assortment of plastic and paperboard containers, in sizes including gallon, half gallon, quart, half pint, 10-ounce and 12-ounce.
- The milk is available in gallons, half gallons, quarts and pints.
- The liter and its fractions have vanquished quarts, pints, and gallons, while the pound is still holding its own in things such as produce.
- Hiking in the desert on a hot day, he goes through one quart of the gallon of water he brought along by noon.
1. 1.1North American A unit of dry capacity equivalent to approximately 1.10 litres.
  〈北美〉夸脱（干量单位，约等于1.10升）
  Example sentencesExamples
  I used four quarts of purée, but there were still more than four gallons of pumpkin to go!
  Depending on the year, she makes anywhere from three to six batches, each batch requiring two quarts of berries to fill eight 8 oz. jars so that they gleam like rubies.
  I myself have a small vegetable garden and do my canning without assistance, three or four quarts at a time.
  Add to each quart of apples a half pint of water; cover the dish and bake in a quick oven until soft.
  When I sell 50 quarts of pork fried rice at lunch, I have to put the cooked rice in a container close to the wok so that I can easily access it and cook it again to customer order.
2Fencing
The fourth of eight parrying positions.
〔剑〕第四姿势
Example sentencesExamples
- Giganti had seven guards, but only really employed two, corresponding to the modern quarte and tierce.
- That is, how to lunge, parry quarte, feint, etc.
- He went in with a feint in the low lines, whence he whirled his point into carte as he lunged, and planted the trident over the master's heart.
- The name of the parry is determined by the position where it finishes, e.g. the fencer starts on guard in the position of sixte, and when attacked parries by moving the blade laterally across the body to the parry of quarte.
- Jack made a hard cut to Clarence's left flank, hoping he would pick it up in quarte, and make his riposte to Jack's fore arm.
3(in piquet) a sequence of four cards of the same suit.
（皮克牌用语）同花顺（指四张连续的同花牌）
Example sentencesExamples
- If each player has a quart, but one quart is higher than the other, the player with the higher quart scores 50 points.
- As between sequences containing the same number of cards, the one headed by the highest card is good; thus, a quart to a queen is good against a quart to a knave.
- A sequence of three cards is called a "tierce"; of four, a "quart"; of five, a "quint"; of six, a "sixieme"; of seven, a "septieme"; of eight, a "huitieme."

Phrases

you can't get a quart into a pint pot

proverb You cannot achieve the impossible.
〈英，谚〉不要异想天开
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr Tipple said: ‘It's a quart in a pint pot and it won't fit.
- Councillor Chris Townsley said: ‘The current store is an old one and needs to be brought up to modern standards, but you can't get a quart into a pint pot.’
- We all know that by compressing data we can effectively fit a quart into a pint pot - and data compression is already widely used on the Net.
- ‘It is impossible to fit a quart into a pint pot,’ said Mr Wilson, who welcomed the 106 Agreement, but said the fundamental problem of parking would remain.
- Wharfedale District Councillor Greaves said 19 homes on the site was too many and he accused the developer of trying to ‘squeeze a quart into a pint pot’.
- A spokesman for pressure group London Health Emergency, which has links to nursing and public services union Unison, said the plans were like ‘trying to fit a quart into a pint pot.’
- May I just point out one small mathematical fact: You can't get a quart into a pint pot!
- But for MML the transition stage will be the railway equivalent of getting a quart into a pint pot.
- Trying to fit a quart into a pint pot really is very difficult.
- He concluded: ‘I would like to see a plan that doesn't try and fit a pint into a quart pot, that is realistic and sensible.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) 'fourth (part)', from quartus 'fourth', from quattuor 'four'.

Quart as a unit of capacity measuring a quarter of a gallon is from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quattuor ‘four’. The same base is shared by Middle English quarter and early 17th century quartet ‘set of four’.

Rhymes

abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought

Definition of quart in US English:

quart

nounkwôrtkwɔrt

1A unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in the US to approximately 0.94 liter and in Britain to approximately 1.13 liters.
夸脱（液量单位，等于1/4加仑或2品脱，英制约等于1.13升，美制约等于0.94升）
two quarts of milk
Example sentencesExamples
- Hiking in the desert on a hot day, he goes through one quart of the gallon of water he brought along by noon.
- Bring four quarts of water to a boil and add two tablespoons salt.
- In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment.
- In the main filling room, gallons, half gallons, pints, quarts and half-pints are filled.
- Has the person been drinking at least one and a half quarts of liquid each day?
- The total capacity of the storage tank, two quarts heated up to 190 degrees, halves the time required to boil four quarts of water for making pasta.
- The milk is available in gallons, half gallons, quarts and pints.
- The Paint Spot caters to both the professional and the hobbyist, selling paint in pints, quarts and gallons for you mural-painters.
- ESL technology allows the company to ship ultra-pasteurized milk in gallons and quarts via refrigerated cargo containers to the Philippines, for example, to provide fresh product in a country where that is a rare commodity.
- Dairy processors are experimenting with four-, six- and eight- packs of halfpint and pints in distribution channels such as club stores as well as two-pack gallons and quarts for supermarkets.
- Offering fresh fruits and vegetables, neighborhood crafts, and a place to gather, a neighborhood store provides employment and eliminates the need to burn a quart of gasoline to pick up a quart of milk.
- Milk products are packaged 16 quarts or four gallons to a case and automatic stackers stack them six high.
- The liter and its fractions have vanquished quarts, pints, and gallons, while the pound is still holding its own in things such as produce.
- In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts.
- The elimination of the previous ‘gull wing’ oil pan design reduces the engine's oil capacity from 6.5 quarts to 5.5 quarts with a dry filter.
- Young men tending camel herds during the rainy season may drink up to ten quarts of milk a day.
- For a gallon mixture: three quarts of hot water, add one quart of bleach.
- The plant fills an assortment of plastic and paperboard containers, in sizes including gallon, half gallon, quart, half pint, 10-ounce and 12-ounce.
- Surfactants are usually used at 1 / 4% by spray volume or 1 quart per 100 gallons of spray mixture.
- Before conception, women need 1,200 mg of calcium per day, or the equivalent of a quart of milk or fortified orange juice, or six servings of fortified bread or cereals.
1. 1.1North American A unit of dry capacity equivalent to approximately 1.10 liters.
  〈北美〉夸脱（干量单位，约等于1.10升）
  Example sentencesExamples
  I used four quarts of purée, but there were still more than four gallons of pumpkin to go!
  I myself have a small vegetable garden and do my canning without assistance, three or four quarts at a time.
  Depending on the year, she makes anywhere from three to six batches, each batch requiring two quarts of berries to fill eight 8 oz. jars so that they gleam like rubies.
  Add to each quart of apples a half pint of water; cover the dish and bake in a quick oven until soft.
  When I sell 50 quarts of pork fried rice at lunch, I have to put the cooked rice in a container close to the wok so that I can easily access it and cook it again to customer order.
2Fencing
The fourth of eight standard parrying positions.
〔剑〕第四姿势
Example sentencesExamples
- That is, how to lunge, parry quarte, feint, etc.
- Jack made a hard cut to Clarence's left flank, hoping he would pick it up in quarte, and make his riposte to Jack's fore arm.
- The name of the parry is determined by the position where it finishes, e.g. the fencer starts on guard in the position of sixte, and when attacked parries by moving the blade laterally across the body to the parry of quarte.
- He went in with a feint in the low lines, whence he whirled his point into carte as he lunged, and planted the trident over the master's heart.
- Giganti had seven guards, but only really employed two, corresponding to the modern quarte and tierce.
3(in piquet) a sequence of four cards of the same suit.
（皮克牌用语）同花顺（指四张连续的同花牌）
Example sentencesExamples
- A sequence of three cards is called a "tierce"; of four, a "quart"; of five, a "quint"; of six, a "sixieme"; of seven, a "septieme"; of eight, a "huitieme."
- As between sequences containing the same number of cards, the one headed by the highest card is good; thus, a quart to a queen is good against a quart to a knave.
- If each player has a quart, but one quart is higher than the other, the player with the higher quart scores 50 points.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quartus ‘fourth’, from quattuor ‘four’.

单词	quart
释义	Definition of quart in English: quart noun kwɔːtkwɔrt 1A unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in Britain to approximately 1.13 litres and in the US to approximately 0.94 litre. 夸脱（液量单位，等于1/4加仑或2品脱，英制约等于1.13升，美制约等于0.94升） two quarts of milk Example sentencesExamples Milk products are packaged 16 quarts or four gallons to a case and automatic stackers stack them six high. In the main filling room, gallons, half gallons, pints, quarts and half-pints are filled. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment. Before conception, women need 1,200 mg of calcium per day, or the equivalent of a quart of milk or fortified orange juice, or six servings of fortified bread or cereals. Has the person been drinking at least one and a half quarts of liquid each day? Young men tending camel herds during the rainy season may drink up to ten quarts of milk a day. The elimination of the previous ‘gull wing’ oil pan design reduces the engine's oil capacity from 6.5 quarts to 5.5 quarts with a dry filter. The total capacity of the storage tank, two quarts heated up to 190 degrees, halves the time required to boil four quarts of water for making pasta. Dairy processors are experimenting with four-, six- and eight- packs of halfpint and pints in distribution channels such as club stores as well as two-pack gallons and quarts for supermarkets. The Paint Spot caters to both the professional and the hobbyist, selling paint in pints, quarts and gallons for you mural-painters. Bring four quarts of water to a boil and add two tablespoons salt. Surfactants are usually used at 1 / 4% by spray volume or 1 quart per 100 gallons of spray mixture. Offering fresh fruits and vegetables, neighborhood crafts, and a place to gather, a neighborhood store provides employment and eliminates the need to burn a quart of gasoline to pick up a quart of milk. For a gallon mixture: three quarts of hot water, add one quart of bleach. ESL technology allows the company to ship ultra-pasteurized milk in gallons and quarts via refrigerated cargo containers to the Philippines, for example, to provide fresh product in a country where that is a rare commodity. The plant fills an assortment of plastic and paperboard containers, in sizes including gallon, half gallon, quart, half pint, 10-ounce and 12-ounce. The milk is available in gallons, half gallons, quarts and pints. The liter and its fractions have vanquished quarts, pints, and gallons, while the pound is still holding its own in things such as produce. Hiking in the desert on a hot day, he goes through one quart of the gallon of water he brought along by noon. 1.1North American A unit of dry capacity equivalent to approximately 1.10 litres. 〈北美〉夸脱（干量单位，约等于1.10升） Example sentencesExamples I used four quarts of purée, but there were still more than four gallons of pumpkin to go! Depending on the year, she makes anywhere from three to six batches, each batch requiring two quarts of berries to fill eight 8 oz. jars so that they gleam like rubies. I myself have a small vegetable garden and do my canning without assistance, three or four quarts at a time. Add to each quart of apples a half pint of water; cover the dish and bake in a quick oven until soft. When I sell 50 quarts of pork fried rice at lunch, I have to put the cooked rice in a container close to the wok so that I can easily access it and cook it again to customer order. 2Fencing The fourth of eight parrying positions. 〔剑〕第四姿势 Example sentencesExamples Giganti had seven guards, but only really employed two, corresponding to the modern quarte and tierce. That is, how to lunge, parry quarte, feint, etc. He went in with a feint in the low lines, whence he whirled his point into carte as he lunged, and planted the trident over the master's heart. The name of the parry is determined by the position where it finishes, e.g. the fencer starts on guard in the position of sixte, and when attacked parries by moving the blade laterally across the body to the parry of quarte. Jack made a hard cut to Clarence's left flank, hoping he would pick it up in quarte, and make his riposte to Jack's fore arm. 3(in piquet) a sequence of four cards of the same suit. （皮克牌用语）同花顺（指四张连续的同花牌） Example sentencesExamples If each player has a quart, but one quart is higher than the other, the player with the higher quart scores 50 points. As between sequences containing the same number of cards, the one headed by the highest card is good; thus, a quart to a queen is good against a quart to a knave. A sequence of three cards is called a "tierce"; of four, a "quart"; of five, a "quint"; of six, a "sixieme"; of seven, a "septieme"; of eight, a "huitieme." Phrases you can't get a quart into a pint pot proverb You cannot achieve the impossible. 〈英，谚〉不要异想天开 Example sentencesExamples Mr Tipple said: ‘It's a quart in a pint pot and it won't fit. Councillor Chris Townsley said: ‘The current store is an old one and needs to be brought up to modern standards, but you can't get a quart into a pint pot.’ We all know that by compressing data we can effectively fit a quart into a pint pot - and data compression is already widely used on the Net. ‘It is impossible to fit a quart into a pint pot,’ said Mr Wilson, who welcomed the 106 Agreement, but said the fundamental problem of parking would remain. Wharfedale District Councillor Greaves said 19 homes on the site was too many and he accused the developer of trying to ‘squeeze a quart into a pint pot’. A spokesman for pressure group London Health Emergency, which has links to nursing and public services union Unison, said the plans were like ‘trying to fit a quart into a pint pot.’ May I just point out one small mathematical fact: You can't get a quart into a pint pot! But for MML the transition stage will be the railway equivalent of getting a quart into a pint pot. Trying to fit a quart into a pint pot really is very difficult. He concluded: ‘I would like to see a plan that doesn't try and fit a pint into a quart pot, that is realistic and sensible. Origin Middle English: from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) 'fourth (part)', from quartus 'fourth', from quattuor 'four'. Quart as a unit of capacity measuring a quarter of a gallon is from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quattuor ‘four’. The same base is shared by Middle English quarter and early 17th century quartet ‘set of four’. Rhymes abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought noun.1 phr. Definition of quart in US English: quart nounkwôrtkwɔrt 1A unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in the US to approximately 0.94 liter and in Britain to approximately 1.13 liters. 夸脱（液量单位，等于1/4加仑或2品脱，英制约等于1.13升，美制约等于0.94升） two quarts of milk Example sentencesExamples Hiking in the desert on a hot day, he goes through one quart of the gallon of water he brought along by noon. Bring four quarts of water to a boil and add two tablespoons salt. In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment. In the main filling room, gallons, half gallons, pints, quarts and half-pints are filled. Has the person been drinking at least one and a half quarts of liquid each day? The total capacity of the storage tank, two quarts heated up to 190 degrees, halves the time required to boil four quarts of water for making pasta. The milk is available in gallons, half gallons, quarts and pints. The Paint Spot caters to both the professional and the hobbyist, selling paint in pints, quarts and gallons for you mural-painters. ESL technology allows the company to ship ultra-pasteurized milk in gallons and quarts via refrigerated cargo containers to the Philippines, for example, to provide fresh product in a country where that is a rare commodity. Dairy processors are experimenting with four-, six- and eight- packs of halfpint and pints in distribution channels such as club stores as well as two-pack gallons and quarts for supermarkets. Offering fresh fruits and vegetables, neighborhood crafts, and a place to gather, a neighborhood store provides employment and eliminates the need to burn a quart of gasoline to pick up a quart of milk. Milk products are packaged 16 quarts or four gallons to a case and automatic stackers stack them six high. The liter and its fractions have vanquished quarts, pints, and gallons, while the pound is still holding its own in things such as produce. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. The elimination of the previous ‘gull wing’ oil pan design reduces the engine's oil capacity from 6.5 quarts to 5.5 quarts with a dry filter. Young men tending camel herds during the rainy season may drink up to ten quarts of milk a day. For a gallon mixture: three quarts of hot water, add one quart of bleach. The plant fills an assortment of plastic and paperboard containers, in sizes including gallon, half gallon, quart, half pint, 10-ounce and 12-ounce. Surfactants are usually used at 1 / 4% by spray volume or 1 quart per 100 gallons of spray mixture. Before conception, women need 1,200 mg of calcium per day, or the equivalent of a quart of milk or fortified orange juice, or six servings of fortified bread or cereals. 1.1North American A unit of dry capacity equivalent to approximately 1.10 liters. 〈北美〉夸脱（干量单位，约等于1.10升） Example sentencesExamples I used four quarts of purée, but there were still more than four gallons of pumpkin to go! I myself have a small vegetable garden and do my canning without assistance, three or four quarts at a time. Depending on the year, she makes anywhere from three to six batches, each batch requiring two quarts of berries to fill eight 8 oz. jars so that they gleam like rubies. Add to each quart of apples a half pint of water; cover the dish and bake in a quick oven until soft. When I sell 50 quarts of pork fried rice at lunch, I have to put the cooked rice in a container close to the wok so that I can easily access it and cook it again to customer order. 2Fencing The fourth of eight standard parrying positions. 〔剑〕第四姿势 Example sentencesExamples That is, how to lunge, parry quarte, feint, etc. Jack made a hard cut to Clarence's left flank, hoping he would pick it up in quarte, and make his riposte to Jack's fore arm. The name of the parry is determined by the position where it finishes, e.g. the fencer starts on guard in the position of sixte, and when attacked parries by moving the blade laterally across the body to the parry of quarte. He went in with a feint in the low lines, whence he whirled his point into carte as he lunged, and planted the trident over the master's heart. Giganti had seven guards, but only really employed two, corresponding to the modern quarte and tierce. 3(in piquet) a sequence of four cards of the same suit. （皮克牌用语）同花顺（指四张连续的同花牌） Example sentencesExamples A sequence of three cards is called a "tierce"; of four, a "quart"; of five, a "quint"; of six, a "sixieme"; of seven, a "septieme"; of eight, a "huitieme." As between sequences containing the same number of cards, the one headed by the highest card is good; thus, a quart to a queen is good against a quart to a knave. If each player has a quart, but one quart is higher than the other, the player with the higher quart scores 50 points. Origin Middle English: from Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quartus ‘fourth’, from quattuor ‘four’.
随便看	with one's bare hands with one's bare hands with one's/both feet on the ground with one's compliments with one's compliments with one's defences down with one's eyes closed with one's eyes open with one's eyes open with one's eyes opened/skinned/peeled with one's eyes open/peeled/skinned with one's eyes/open/peeled/skinned with one's eyes shut with one's eyes shut (or closed) with one's eyes shut (or closed) with one's eyes skinned/peeled with one's feet on the ground with one's fingers/hand in the till with one's fingers in the till with one's hand in the cookie jar with one's hand in the cookie jar with one's hand in the till with one's hands with one's head in the clouds with one's head in the clouds