Autocracy is just a Russian bad habit, like smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and drinking a liter of vodka.
One hundred kilograms of rowanberries produce only one liter and a half of distilled liquor.
The oldest Rolls-Royce in the Royal fleet is a 1950 Phantom IV, with a massive 5.76 liter engine.
There are long lines of cars stocking up on gas, to the point most gas stations imposed a 20 liter limit.
The work paid well and was competed for: one-fifth liter of vodka, five cigarettes, 100 grams of sausage for each job.
W'en a man's eyes 'fected by champagne, he's liter'ly no good.
For example, the weight of a liter of oxygen has been given as 1.4285 g.
The infusion for internal use is 30 grams to the liter of water.
They could neither of them stand any more when the liter was emptied.
The total in taxes and transport is fourteen and a half cents a liter.
1797, from French litre (1793), from litron, obsolete French measure of capacity for grain, from Medieval Latin litra, from Greek litra "pound," apparently from the same Sicilian Italic source as Latin libra.
alternative spelling of light (adj.1), by 1962. Used from at least 1917 in product names, often as a variation of light (n.).
The word Adjusto-Lite for portable electric lamps was opposed by the user of a trade mark Auto-lite registered before the date of use claimed by the applicant. ["The Trade-Mark Reporter," 1922]
liter li·ter (lē'tər)
n.
Abbr. L, l
A unit of volume equal to 1000 cubic centimeters or or 1 cubic decimeter (1.0567 quarts).
liter
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adjective
Not serious; not scholarly; watered down; popularized: there's myth lite apres Joseph Campbell, Pinkola Estes, etc
[1980s+; fr the misspelling of light used to identify less fattening, less intoxicating, etc, products, esp beer]
