qt.
abbreviation
quantity.
qt.
1 Americanabbreviation
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qt.,
plural
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qts
plural
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quantity.
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quart.
q.t.
2
American
Or
Q.T.
abbreviation
Informal.
idioms
q.t.
1
British
abbreviation
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quiet
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secretly
qt
2
British
abbreviation
qt.
Scientific
Q.T.
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Etymology
Origin of q.t.
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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Milk was 25 cents a qt., coffee cream 23 cents a half-pint.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Independent tests in German laboratories showed it was actually skim milk that cost only 10^ per qt. to produce.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since 1972, consumption has soared from 372 million to 611 million lbs. a year, or about 42 qt. per person.
From Time Magazine Archive
It uses 240,000 qt. of milk and three carloads of sugar a day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stew for 2 hours; add 1 qt. can of okra and cook for an hour and a half longer, adding seasoning as necessary ½ an hour before it is done.
From 365 Luncheon Dishes A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year by Anonymous
Files must be spirited from file-cabinets, client meetings taken on the q.t.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2015
Now then, Bennie," whispered Gus, "beat it on the q.t.
From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Wayne Whipple
As he is working on the strict q.t.,
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
We got chatting about you, my ownest," said Marmaduke; "and the subject was so sweet, and the moments were so fleet, that we talked for quite an hour on the strict q.t.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw
She told you on the strict q.t., didn't she?
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Sir Max Pemberton
The necessary conversion factors are given in Table 1.6: 1 lb = 453.59 g; 1 L = 1.0567 qt; 1 L = 1,000 mL.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
A chemistry teacher needs to mix a 30% salt solution with a 70% salt solution to make 20 qt of a 40% salt solution.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
Waiting, barwork, labouring, field work, painting and decorating also do the trick: any sort of "homer" or "bit on the qt".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
An acre will bear if devoted to each crop, of: Blackberries, 10,000 qt., which at 7 cent a qt., would bring $700.00 Dewberries, 9,000 qt., say at 7 cent a qt.
From Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall
How many bushels are there in 288 qt.?
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike
I’m talking about a remarkably ambitious and poorly understood Fed project known as quantitative tightening — Q.T. for short.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
“There are not any compelling signs that they won’t be able to continue Q.T. for a while,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
And I studied underneath Q.T. and paid attention on his sets.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2022
This is a profound self-revelation: Q.T. exposes a layer of herself beneath the butch demeanor, the part that still feels close to the Southern culture that has demeaned and rejected her.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2016
"Putting on all they can on the Q.T.," was the response.
From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins
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