Definitions for quarts

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quarts quart

Spelling: [kwawrt]

IPA: /kwɔrt/

Quarts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in quarts (aqrstu).

Definitions for quarts

noun

1. a unit of liquid measure of capacity, equal to one fourth of a gallon, or 57.749 cubic inches (0.946 liter) in the U.S. and 69.355 cubic inches (1.136 liters) in Great Britain.
2. a unit of dry measure of capacity, equal to one eighth of a peck, or 67.201 cubic inches (1.101 liters).
3. a container holding, or capable of holding, a quart.
4. Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
5. Fencing Rare. quarte.

Origin of quarts

1275-1325; Middle English Old French quarte fourth part, quarter Latin quarta, noun use of feminine of quartus fourth (in order)

Examples for quarts

Take a quart of milk, which must be made warm, but not boiling.

Melt a quarter of a pound of fresh butter in a quart of milk.

Take that stuff away and bring me a bottle of '82—a quart, mind you—if you haven't the '71.'

Prepare a thin syrup of a pound of loaf-sugar to a quart of water.

Let it boil till the liquid is reduced to one quart, and skim it well.

Mix all thoroughly, moistening it with a quart of bottled or sweet cider.

His court-appointed lawyer was drinking a quart of liquor per day.

Or you may blanch a quart of ground-nuts and put them in instead of the almonds.

Measure a quart of boiling water, and set it away to get cold.

Mix all together, and moisten it with a quart of Madeira, and a pint of brandy.