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
It uses 240,000 qt. of milk and three carloads of sugar a day.
From Time Magazine Archive
A small race mare does well to eat 8 or 9 qt. of oats a day, and 12 qt. are a lot for an above-average male.
From Time Magazine Archive
He eats 16 qt., and between meals keeps his groom busy replenishing the supply of hay on which he nibbles almost constantly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Add 1 cup of chopped potatoes, cover and cook five minutes, then add a qt. of boiling water and cook an hour.
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
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
As he is working on the strict q.t.,
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
We’ve got to have a talk with them, 121 and it has to be on the q.t.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by D. C. Hutchison
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
Bread crumbs, sifted 2 qt Milk 1 c.
From Quantity Cookery Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers by Lenore Richards
The following gives the sizes of jars with approximate capacity for eggs and the amount of water glass solution required to cover the eggs: 1 gallon jar—40 eggs, 3½ pints of solution or 1¾ qt.
From Every Step in Canning by Grace Viall Gray
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
“But viewed in the context of a less liquid environment where stress events are having a bigger impact, that is why I am nervous about Q.T. ramping up.”
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
The draft licence sent me I begged to decline; Though other chaps had 'em, they were not for me; I prefer a free flag, on the strictest Q.T.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890 by Various
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