meter

Speech parts

1. meter - Noun

2. meter - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

measure metre cadence time instrument beat counter gauge m measuring device measuring instrument gage micron mark dial
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Antonyms

still place fall break stay remove
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Hypernyms

measure stamp prosody quantify rhythmicity rhythmic pattern

Hyponyms

foot galvanometer magnetometer odometer radiometer electrometer

Phrases with the word

Pizza Meter metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter alliterative meter dose meter density meter handheld light meter

Anagrams

metre retem Emert Meert Terem

Examples

A 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

Close letter words and terms

metepa metepimeron metepisternal meter attendant meter maid meter money