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Meter

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Meter has 4 senses

Verb Meter has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Metern. [From Mete to measure.].
  •  One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.  [1913 Webster]
Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- Wet meter, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.
Metern. 
     A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.  [1913 Webster]
Metern. [OE. metre, F. mètre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ; akin to Skr. to measure. See Mete to measure.].
  •  Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.  [1913 Webster]
    "The only strict antithesis to prose is meter."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A poem.  Robynson (More's Utopia).  [1913 Webster]
  •  A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.  [1913 Webster]
Common meter (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines, making a stanza, the first and third having each four feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; -- usually indicated by the initials C. M. -- Long meter (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines of four feet each, four verses usually making a stanza; -- commonly indicated by the initials L. M. -- Short meter (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines, the first, second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the initials S. M.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Meter, n. & v.
--n.
1 a person or thing that measures, esp. an instrument for recording a quantity of gas, electricity, etc. supplied, present, or needed.
2 = parking-meter (see PARK).
--v.tr. measure by means of a meter.

Meter, US var. of METRE(1).

Meter, US var. of METRE(2).

THESAURUS

Meter

Alexandrine, Stabreim, VOM, VTVM, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, alternation, ammeter, ampere-hour meter, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appraise, appraiser, appreciate, arsis, assay, assayer, assess, assessor, bacchius, beat, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calibrate, caliper, cartographer, catalexis, check a parameter, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorographer, colon, compute, coulometer, count-rate meter, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dial, dimeter, dipody, divide, dochmiac, duodial, dynamometer, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, estimate, estimator, evaluate, evaluator, expansion ammeter, faradmeter, fathom, feminine caesura, foot, galvanometer, gauge, gauger, geodesist, graduate, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hysteresis meter, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, illuminometer, instrument, interferometer, intermittence, intermittency, ionic, ionization gauge, jingle, land surveyor, lilt, magnetometer, masculine caesura, measure, measurer, megohmmeter, mensurate, mete, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mhometer, milliammeter, molossus, mora, movement, moving-coil meter, number, numbers, oceanographer, ohmmeter, oscillation, pH meter, pace, paeon, pendulum motion, pentameter, pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plumb, potentiometer, prize, probe, proceleusmatic, prosodic pattern, prosody, pulsation, pyrrhic, quantify, quantitative meter, quantity, quantize, rate, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, scanning, scansion, seasonality, size, size up, sound, span, spondee, sprung rhythm, step, stress, survey, surveyor, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, take a reading, telemeter, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thermoammeter, thermocouple, thermoelectrometer, thesis, time-interval meter, topographer, triangulate, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, undulation, valuate, valuator, value, valuer, variometer, vers libre, versification, voltameter, voltmeter, weigh

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Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.

Length

N length, longitude, span, mileage, distance, line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius, lengthening, prolongation, production, protraction, tension, tensure, extension, line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league, chain, link, arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara, astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec, nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km, pedometer, perambulator, scale, long, longsome, lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched, lengthened, sesquipedalian, interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear, lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c (shorten), lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along, tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft.

Measurement

N measurement, admeasurement, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize, estimate, estimation, dead reckoning, reckoning, gauging, horse power, metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic, measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers, gage, gauge, meter, line, rod, check, dividers, velo, flood mark, high water mark, Plimsoll line, index, scale, graduation, graduated scale, nonius, vernier, bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat) &c, barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer, (angle) 244 meter, landmark, balance, scale, marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph, rain gauge, rain gage, voltmeter (volts), ammeter (amps), spectrophotometer (light absorbance), mass spectrophotometer (molecular mass), geiger counter, scintillation counter (radioactivity), pycnometer (liquid density), graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume), radar gun (velocity), radar (distance), side-looking radar, (shape, topography), sonar (depth in water), light meter (light intensity), clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time), anemometer (wind velocity), densitometer (color intensity), measurability, computability, determinability, coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth, geometry, stereometry, hypsometry, metage, surveying, land surveying, geodesy, geodetics, geodesia, orthometry, altimetry, cadastre, astrolabe, armillary sphere, land surveyor, geometer, measuring, metric, metrical, measurable, perceptible, noticeable, detectable, appreciable, ponderable, determinable, fathomable, geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical.

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