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PINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("pint" is a kind of...):
United States liquid unit (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)
Meronyms (parts of "pint"):
cup (a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces)
Holonyms ("pint" is a part of...):
quart (a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("pint" is a kind of...):
United States dry unit (a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System)
Holonyms ("pint" is a part of...):
dry quart; quart (a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("pint" is a kind of...):
British capacity unit; Imperial capacity unit (a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet)
Meronyms (parts of "pint"):
gill (a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters)
Holonyms ("pint" is a part of...):
quart (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters)
Context examples:
I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Have you got the price of a pint of beer about you?” said the tinker.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now, for instance, it was reckoned a remarkable thing, at the last party in my rooms, that upon an average we cleared about five pints a head.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
This equates to around six pints of beer or six glasses of wine a week.
(Drinking more than five pints a week could shorten your life, University of Cambridge)
“Come in, Mr. Fidelio. Every man to his own taste, and six drops to the half-pint seems a sinful watering of grog—but if you like it so, you shall have it.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Barkis will be so glad, said Peggotty, wiping her eyes with her apron, that it'll do him more good than pints of liniment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was a change for them to turn their backs upon the cooking of Weltjie and of Ude, or the chambertin of old Q., and to dine upon a porter-house steak washed down by a pint of ale from a pewter pot.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After watching me into the second chop, he said: There's half a pint of ale for you.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When I had money enough, I used to get half-a-pint of ready-made coffee and a slice of bread and butter.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
