quart en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /kwɔɹt/ (General-American)
- /kwoːt/ (Australia)
- /kɔɹt/ (General-American)
- /kwɔːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology
From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).
Meanings
- A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
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Four successive cards of the same suit.
A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.
1908, Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted:Carrados ought to have won the point and divided tricks, leaving his opponent a minor quart and a solitary trio—about 15 on the hand. By a careless discard he threw away both chances and the final score stood at 205-112.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
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(obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14:
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The fourth defensive position; quarte.
[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| quarts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
quartful · quartary · reputed quart
Translations (41)
gl cuarta (a unit of liquid capacity) · af kwart (a unit of liquid capacity) · eo kvarto (a unit of liquid capacity) · lv kvarta (a unit of liquid capacity) · ar رُبَع غَالُون (a unit of liquid capacity) · es cuarto de galón (a unit of liquid capacity) · pl kwarta (a unit of liquid capacity) · hy կվարտ (a unit of liquid capacity) · fi neljännesgallona (a unit of liquid capacity) · fa کوارت (a unit of liquid capacity) · sv quart (a unit of liquid capacity) · za gvahdoz (a unit of liquid capacity) · ka კვარტა (a unit of liquid capacity) · ga cárt (a unit of liquid capacity) · es cuarta (a unit of liquid capacity) · bg ква́ртa (Four successive cards of the same suit) · cmn 夸脫 (a unit of liquid capacity) · da fjerdedel gallon (a unit of liquid capacity) · be ква́рта (a unit of liquid capacity) · ja クォート (a unit of liquid capacity) · mi kuata (a unit of liquid capacity) · ru ква́рта (a unit of liquid capacity) · nl quart (a unit of liquid capacity) · th ควอร์ต (a unit of liquid capacity) · da kvart (a unit of liquid capacity) · el τέταρτο του γαλονιού (a unit of liquid capacity) · hu kvart (a unit of liquid capacity) · gd seipinn (a unit of liquid capacity) · ko 쿼트 (a unit of liquid capacity) · fr pinte (a unit of liquid capacity) · la duō sextāriī (a unit of liquid capacity) · gd cairteal (a unit of liquid capacity) · nrf quarte (a unit of liquid capacity) · ca quart (a unit of liquid capacity) · cy chwart (a unit of liquid capacity) · de Quart (a unit of liquid capacity) · cs kvart (a unit of liquid capacity) · pt quarto (a unit of liquid capacity) · bg ква́рт (a unit of liquid capacity) · uk ква́рта (a unit of liquid capacity) · et kvart (a unit of liquid capacity)