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Meter

noun

The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards). Synonyms: m, metre.

Any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity.

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. Synonyms: beat, cadence, measure, metre.

Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration. Synonyms: metre, time.

verb

Measure with a meter.

Stamp with a meter indicating the postage.

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... wind and the brook and the bird would teach My heart their beautiful parts of speech, And the natural art they say these with, My soul would sing of beauty and myth In a rhyme and a meter none before Have sung in their love, or dreamed in their ...

— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins

... stay sew long a way. This is meter as Pol sed to Petre put on the gridel and take of the heter. A lot more flours are out in bloome like the ones I send with my love so dear fete have been in the creke sints you went a way I think that pig is sory she made you go now the chilren granpa sed to me to ...

— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

... gone I set to work with "Francis I.," and corrected all the errors in the meter which Mr. Milman had had the kindness to point out to me. I then went over Beatrice with my mother, who takes infinite pains with me and seems to think I profit. She went to the play with Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Edward Romilly, who is a daughter ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... it on a grand scale in a thirty horse-power motor-boat than in a gas-meter bath-tub of a five-room flat in Clapham," I remarked; and somehow that silenced Phyllis, except ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... that's a fact," says I; "but I might ask him what he was doin' down there and call for proof. Then, if he was only takin' the meter, why—" ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

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