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What is the difference between quart and pint?

quart | pint |

As nouns the difference between quart and pint

is that quart is 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 while pint is a unit of volume, equivalent to ⅛ of a gallon or.

quart

English

(wikipedia quart)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (cards) Four successive cards of the same suit.
  • * 1908 , Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted
  • A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.
  • (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
  • * Spenser
  • Camber did possess the western quart .

    See also

    * you can't get a quart into a pint pot ----

    pint

    English

    (wikipedia pint)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of volume, equivalent to ? of a gallon or
  • # in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint ) and
  • # in the United States approximately
  • ## 473 millilitres for liquids (a US liquid pint ) or
  • ## 551 millilitres for dry goods (a US dry pint ).
  • # hungarian pint 1,696 liter
  • (British) A pint of milk.
  • Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman
  • (euphemistic) A glass of beer, served by the pint.
  • * 1998 , Kirk Jones, Waking Ned , Tomboy films
  • Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.

    See also

    * gallon * litre * quart ----