- A
measuring cup is a
kitchen utensil used
primarily to
measure the
volume of
liquid or bulk
solid cooking ingredients such as
flour and sugar, especially...
-
Greaves visited Rome in 1639, and measured,
among other things, the foot
measure on the tomb of
Titus Statilius Aper, that on the
statue of
Cossutius formerly...
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differentiated their systems of
volume measure between dry and
liquid states. For dry measurement, or what is
simply a
measure of
capacity rather than of weight...
- 1707 as
exactly 231
cubic inches (3 in × 7 in × 11 in) as
their basic liquid measure, from
which the US wet pint is derived, and the
British corn gallon...
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capacities (in
terms of a
liquid measure such as
liters or gallons).
Initially each jug
contains a
known integer volume of
liquid, not
necessarily equal...
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Squares of
derah and c****aba (3.55 m) was used to
partly measure lands. Two main systems,
liquid and dry were used in Egypt. One
guirbeh was
equal to 70...
- century. It was
standardized by
Peter the
Great in the 18th
century to
measure exactly twenty-eight
English inches (71.12 cm). Thus, 80
vershoks = 20...
- 250 ml is also used
depending on the
measuring scale. In the
United States, the
customary cup is half of a US
liquid pint. The cup
currently used in the...
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liquid measure—with one town
defining a
firkin as 3 bushels, and the next town as 2 1/2 bushels. The pint was the
smallest unit in the corn
measure....
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century and
originally referred to any
goods measured in dry
measure, not
liquid measure, of volume, such as stere,
bushel or peck. Dry
goods as a term...
