quart

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /kwɔːt/    美 /kwɔɹt/|/kɔɹt/|/kwoːt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. Safety, soundness; health. obsolete,uncountable
    — Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
  3. 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.
  4. A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. obsolete
    — Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.
  5. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To thwart. dialectal
形容词 adj.
  1. Safe, sound; healthy. dialectal,obsolete
  2. Transverse. dialectal
  3. Contentious or quarrelsome. dialectal
副词 adv.
  1. Crosswise; across. dialectal

词形变化

quarts plural more quart comparative most quart superlative more quart comparative most quart superlative more quart comparative most quart superlative quarts present,singular,third-person quarting participle,present quarted participle,past quarted past

词汇关系

衍生词
quartary quartful reputed quart

词源

词源 1
From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
Dialectal alteration of thwart.
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