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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pintnoun

    a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters

  2. pint, dry pintnoun

    a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches

  3. pintnoun

    a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart

Wiktionary

  1. pintnoun

    A unit of volume, equivalent to of a gallon or

  2. pintnoun

    A pint of milk.

    Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman

  3. pintnoun

    A glass of beer, served by the pint.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Pintnoun

    Half a quart; in medicine, twelve ounces; a liquid measure.

    Etymology: pint , Sax. pinte, Fr. pinta, low Lat.

    Well, you’ll not believe me generous, till I crack half a pint with you at my own charges. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. pint

    A pint is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems. In the United States, it is equal to 16 fluid ounces, or 473.176 milliliters. In the British system, it is equal to 20 fluid ounces, or 568.261 milliliters. It is commonly used to measure liquid or dry ingredients.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pintnoun

    a measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart

  2. Pintnoun

    the laughing gull

  3. Etymology: [OE. pinte, F. pinte, fr. Sp. pinta spot, mark, pint, fr. pintar to paint; a mark for a pint prob. having been made on or in a larger measure. See Paint.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pint

    pīnt, n. a measure of capacity=½ quart or 4 gills: (med.) 12 ounces.—ns. Pint′-pot, a pot for holding a pint, esp. a pewter pot for beer: a seller or drinker of beer; Pint′-stoup, a vessel for holding a Scotch pint. [Fr. pinte—Sp. pinta, mark—L. picta, pingĕre, to paint.]

Editors Contribution

  1. pintnoun

    Very small amount


    Submitted by bouwerpana on September 28, 2021  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PINT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pint is ranked #34539 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pint surname appeared 655 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pint.

    95.2% or 624 total occurrences were White.
    2.2% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.9% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.7% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
    0.7% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pint' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3028

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pint' in Nouns Frequency: #2050

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pint in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pint in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of pint in a Sentence

  1. Alan Marshall Beck:

    A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad

  2. Zoe Goldstein:

    I dont even live around here, but if I were to ever get a pint of ice cream it would be from this store.

  3. Orderella CEO Dennis Collett:

    We are trying to disrupt a very traditional industry, so we focused on innovative operators first, we show operators the experience from a consumer perspective -- order the drink, go to the bar, your pint arrives.

  4. Anthony Norvell:

    Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.

  5. George Smith Patton, Jr.:

    A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

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