pint
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /paɪnt/
pint (plural pints)
- A unit of volume, equivalent to:
- one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
- (United Kingdom, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
- (United States): one half quart
- 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
- approximately 18.62 fluid ounces [551 millilitres] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
- (Hungary) 1.696 liters
- (medicine) 12 fluid ounces
- one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
- (British, metonym) A pint of milk.
- Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
- (metonymy, UK) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
- Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.
- 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
- half-pint
- imperial pint
- pinta
- pint glass
- pint pot
- pint-size, pint-sized
- US pint
- you can't fit a quart into a pint pot
- French: chopine de lait
- Italian: pinta di latte
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