Pint Definition

pīnt
pints
noun
pints
A unit of liquid measure, equal to12 of a liquid quart or 16 fluid ounces (4 gills or 0.4732 liquid liter): the British and Canadian imperial pint equals 0.5682 liquid liter.
Webster's New World
A unit of dry measure, equal to12 of a dry quart or116 peck (0.5506 dry liter or 33.6003 cubic inches)
Webster's New World
A unit of volume or capacity in the British Imperial System, used in dry and liquid measure, equal to 0.568 liter.
American Heritage
Any container with a capacity of one pint.
Webster's New World
A pint of beer.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • dry-pint

Other Word Forms of Pint

Noun

Singular:
pint
Plural:
pints

Origin of Pint

  • Middle English pinte a unit of volume from Old French from Vulgar Latin pīncta mark on a container from feminine of *pīnctus alteration of Latin pictus past participle of pingere to paint peig- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pint Sentence Examples

  • Do you always buy your booze in pint bottles?

  • I saw Fitzgerald buy two pint bottles of vodka that morning.

  • But in Fitzgerald's defense, there were two pint bottles of vodka at Lydia Larkin's place, so he may have bought them for her.

  • By 1891 he had designed and erected at the Royal Institution an apparatus which yielded liquid oxygen by the pint, and towards the end of that year he showed that both liquid oxygen and liquid ozone are strongly attracted by a magnet.

  • However, an empty pint of Jack Daniel's on the galley table made the observation somewhat less credible.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIN

Words Ending With

TNTINT

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Words Starting With P and Ending With T

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