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Grammar : Noun
Spell : mee-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmi tər

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Origin :
  • also metre, "poetic measure," Old English meter "meter, versification," from Latin metrum, from Greek metron "meter, a verse; that by which anything is measured; measure, length, size, limit, proportion," from PIE root *me- "measure" (see meter (n.2)). Possibly reborrowed early 14c. (after a 300-year gap in recorded use) from Old French metre, with specific sense of "metrical scheme in verse," from Latin metrum.
  • noun rhythm, beat
Example sentences :
  • It even included a meter to determine the current actually consumed.
  • Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
  • It was all a new experience to him, and his meter was registering the time.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 » by Various
  • Not more than half a meter from the pavement, it checked its fall and settled.
  • Extract from : « The Best Made Plans » by Everett B. Cole
  • His greatest work, "Harmony and Meter," was published in 1853.
  • Extract from : « A Popular History of the Art of Music » by W. S. B. Mathews
  • The meter only registered eightpence, but she gave me half-a-crown.
  • Extract from : « The Yellow Claw » by Sax Rohmer
  • He turned off the gas at the meter underneath the stairs as Benson had requested.
  • Extract from : « The Shrieking Pit » by Arthur J. Rees
  • Benson, after turning on the gas at the meter, returned to find the room in darkness.
  • Extract from : « The Shrieking Pit » by Arthur J. Rees
  • Look at that meter—and I've had to throw in number ten shunt!
  • Extract from : « Spacehounds of IPC » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • When he reduces this to a system he has established the meter of his production.
  • Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester
  • There is no ruggedness in the meter, no violence in the stream of images.
  • Extract from : « Life Immovable » by Kostes Palamas

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