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
When scientists first started making endostatin, it took 200 qt. of mouse urine to obtain less than a millionth of an ounce.
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
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
The following prices prevailed: Bacon, $10 lb.; pork and beef, $5 lb.; peas, $1 qt.; corn meal, $1.25 qt.; rice, $1 lb.; salt, $1; sweet potatoes, medium, $1 each, and everything else in proportion.
From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott
Files must be spirited from file-cabinets, client meetings taken on the q.t.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2015
My notion is this: You burn a shuck back to the Frying Pan and round up some of our friends on the q.t.
From Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine
She told you on the strict q.t., didn't she?
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Sir Max Pemberton
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
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
IngredientsAmountWeightCaloriesUnit CostTotal Cost Salmon, 1 lb. cans 10 Bread, broken 4 qt.
From Quantity Cookery Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers by Lenore Richards
Total volume 4¾ qt Calories in one serving______ Cost of one serving______
From Quantity Cookery Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers by Lenore Richards
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
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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