Word Finder - meter

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(always meter) A device that measures things.

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(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

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(always meter) One who metes or measures.

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a labouring coal-meter

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(elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.

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(elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

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(elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

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(elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

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A poem.

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To measure with a metering device.

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To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.

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To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).

Generally speaking, the price of the meter is a subordinate consideration.

His horizontal jump carried him only a meter or two.

If the water meter is still running, you have a leak somewhere in your home or garden.

How far do formal characteristics of poetry (rhyme, meter, stanza structure and so on) affect what is expressed in verse?

Before proposing the reintroduction of the tax, Sella and his friend Ferrara improved and made exhaustive experiments with the meter.

Trochaic meter is less commonly used than iambic meter.

The 50 meter twister ride is also still available with its tunnel of flashing lights and it 's tight bends.

The tiny skeleton of Flo unearthed by archeologists on an island in the Indian Ocean was only a meter high.

Unimproved grasslands on neutral or acidic soils are likely to contain at least 12 species of vascular plant per meter square.

You can check if a drive supplies termination power by using a volt meter.

Let 's consider a photovoltaic system that can extract 30 watt per square meter in 24 hours.

The webbing neck strap should be worn every time the meter is used.

Another good guide is the grams per square meter (GSM) rating.

The Sonic Bomb alarm from Sonic Alert has an incredibly loud 113dB alarm, which is the approximately the same decibel level as a live rock concert or car horn at a distance of one meter.

It could be a case of nature calling, in the form of a local cat in heat, or it may have been spooked by Peter the meter reader doing his monthly check on your natural gas consumption.

After you have fixed all the leaks, turn off all the taps and check the water meter over a two hour period.

Glaciers, which weigh approximately one ton per cubic meter, place pressure on the Earth's surface.

The happiness meter lets you know the emotional status of your pet.

A meter to the left of the screen indicates how loud of a burp you managed to produce.

When the game starts, you want to watch the meter in the left hand corner of the screen and try to hit the spacebar as close as you can to the end of the meter where the brightest red is.

If the construction is not substantially non- combustible it must be sited at least one meter from any boundary.

There is also a stamina meter that is attached to each player in the ring itself, indicating how fit the player is.

A suction cup mounting hook is supplied with the meter.

Electricity is on a token meter (first £ 5 is free).

Here the rhyme words are emphatic, an effect made stronger by the trochaic meter.

The closer you get to hitting at the end of the meter, the more power Shrek will have and the farther he will go.

To play, watch the meter in the left hand corner of the play screen.

Hit the left mouse button to stop the meter when the yellow bar is at the highest point on the meter.

The better you do at clicking when the yellow is at the top of the meter, the farther SpongeBob will sail through the air.

The more accurate you are about hitting the buttons when the jellyfish are in the center of the dotted line, the more points you earn to build up your trick meter to the far left of the play screen.

Once your trick meter is full you will see a flashing arrow pointing up at the bottom of the screen.

Its 216 meter vertical drop is one of the highest in Ontario.

All along, bassist Nikki Sixx laid down the bass lines and helped keep the attitude meter of the band pinned in the red.

Ramp up your fashion voltage meter with sizzling metallic fabrics in daring cutaway O-ring styles or opt for sweetly sexy halter and tube dresses.

The visible spectrum has a wavelength from red's approximately 700 nm (nanometers = billionths of a meter) to violet's mere 400 nm.

Hides or shows the different meters and effects in the game, such as the skill meter.

Each health pack refills around 1/3 of your health meter.

When you use one, your health meter slides back like the chamber on a gun, just in case you forgot how ridiculous the game is.The AI, while not bad, isn't much to brag about.

One thing that's different is the addition of the Clash Meter.

The more yards and touchdowns you earn will raise your Clash Meter.

If you're on defense, turning on your Clash Meter intensifies their hits, making them more brutal if the Clash Meter was off.

When the book meter above the bookworm is full, you move on to the next round where the words become a little harder to find, and other challenges may be thrown your way.

The first is a pie-shaped suppression meter which lets you know when you have your foe pinned down and can reposition your squad in relative safety.

When you hit a car or medium-sized truck--that is with the flow of other traffic-called Traffic Checking--you increase your boost meter.

Afterwards, select try again and your experience meter will be filled again.

You have an egg meter that increases one egg at a time when you collect a certain amount of acorns.

Once you do, they disappear, and your "Cubes to go" meter on the right goes down.

This will not work if your mind power meter was already at zero.

The faster your service is, the higher the heart meter, which will result in better tip.

As you capture the strange little creatures, a voltage meter increases.