Contextualizebeta

quart

noun
/kwɔːt/UK/kwɔɹt/US/kwoːt//kar//kwart/

Etymology

From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”).

  1. derived from *gʷerh₂-✻ — “heavy”
  2. derived from *kwerruz✻ — “calm, satisfied, pacified”
  3. derived from kyrr
  4. derived from kyrt
  5. inherited from quarte

Definitions

  1. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints

    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.

  2. 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.
    • 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.

  3. A fourth

    A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

    • Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. The fourth defensive position

      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.

    2. Safe, sound

      Safe, sound; healthy.

    3. Safety, soundness

      Safety, soundness; health.

    4. Transverse.

    5. Contentious or quarrelsome.

    6. Crosswise

      Crosswise; across.

    7. To thwart.

    8. A comune of the Aosta Valley autonomous region, Italy.

    9. A municipality of Gironès, Comarques Gironines, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

    10. A surname

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quart. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA