Example sentences from the Web for litre

I got my litre at a blacksmith's; they brought me out a chair under a tree, and I ate and drank to the ring of the anvil.
A Spring Walk in Provence|Archibald Marshall
Five grammes (75 grains) Anthion are dissolved in one litre (one quart) of luke-warm distilled water.
Photogravure|Henry R. Blaney
There the others joined in: "Allons donc pour un litre—let's drink a litre in the canteen."
In the Foreign Legion|Erwin Rosen
This wash is made by boiling 100 g. of alum in 1/2 litre of water and using it solely for this work.
Practical Bookbinding|Paul Adam

Jaffery, to give himself an appetite for dinner, ordered half a litre of Munich beer.
Jaffery|William J. Locke

litre

US liter

/ (ˈliːtə) /

noun

one cubic decimetre

(formerly) the volume occupied by 1 kilogram of pure water at 4°C and 760 millimetres of mercury. This is equivalent to 1.000 028 cubic decimetres or about 1.76 pints

Word Origin for litre

C19: from French, from Medieval Latin litra, from Greek: a unit of weight

Words nearby litre

litigious, litmus, litmus paper, litmus test, litotes, litre, Litt. B., Litt. D., litten, Litten's phenomenon, litter

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单词	litre
释义	Example sentences from the Web for litre I got my litre at a blacksmith's; they brought me out a chair under a tree, and I ate and drank to the ring of the anvil. A Spring Walk in Provence\|Archibald Marshall Five grammes (75 grains) Anthion are dissolved in one litre (one quart) of luke-warm distilled water. Photogravure\|Henry R. Blaney There the others joined in: "Allons donc pour un litre—let's drink a litre in the canteen." In the Foreign Legion\|Erwin Rosen This wash is made by boiling 100 g. of alum in 1/2 litre of water and using it solely for this work. Practical Bookbinding\|Paul Adam Jaffery, to give himself an appetite for dinner, ordered half a litre of Munich beer. Jaffery\|William J. Locke litre US liter / (ˈliːtə) / noun one cubic decimetre (formerly) the volume occupied by 1 kilogram of pure water at 4°C and 760 millimetres of mercury. This is equivalent to 1.000 028 cubic decimetres or about 1.76 pints Word Origin for litre C19: from French, from Medieval Latin litra, from Greek: a unit of weight Words nearby litre litigious, litmus, litmus paper, litmus test, litotes, litre, Litt. B., Litt. D., litten, Litten's phenomenon, litter Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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