1. meter - Noun
2. meter - Verb
One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.
A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
Alt. of Metre
Source: Webster's dictionaryA hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. Earl Warren
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. George H. W. Bush
I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily. Marjane Satrapi
If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter on to a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases [it] creates a new image of the unit of length. Marcel Duchamp
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, One Meter Wide and Two Meters Long. Robert A. Heinlein