Word Finder - meters

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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).

He stood a few meters away, hands clasped behind his back.

The river was several hundred meters away.

West 100 meters, the voice told her.

The destruction disappeared by mile marker five, only a few hundred meters from the turnoff to her condo community.

In the case of small and irregular consumers, such as the inhabitants of model dwellings and flats inhabited chiefly by working-class tenants, coin-in-the-slot meters are much employed.

The women's 200 meters backstroke final will now be tonight, the semi-finals of the 200m free this morning.

Cold water soaked Lana's boots as Dan kept them on the creek's edge for a few hundred meters before veering into the surrounding forest.

The gap was twenty meters wide and on the other side, a graveyard of burnt-out vehicles.

Lana twisted to watch it lower itself to the ground a hundred meters behind her position.

The channels between the islands do not exceed 2 meters.

Rhyn leapt down from the tree a few meters in front of her and sat to await her as she slid and maneuvered the muddy trail.

They'd circled it twice, but the blast had scorched dirt, trees, and any traces of Lana over a hundred meters in every direction beyond the crater.

Everyone within a few meters of Xander melted.

The main source of water for the park comes from a borehole drilled 90 meters into a chalk aquifer.

Such bows could shoot an arrow over a hundred meters.

The toads live in underground burrows and make electronic bleeps audible from a distance of 30 meters.

About 60 million cubic meters of dome and crater wall traveled to the south as a debris avalanche and pyroclastic density currents.

The British women in the 200 meters backstroke will also get a second chance.

I use two rake heads welded together back-to-back with thirty meters of polypropylene rope attached.

On very steep slopes, stake straw bales in parallel lines from bottom to top, spaced a few meters apart.

We will spend all day birding from our camp at 2800 meters to our next stop at 1600 meters.

It emits bleeps at half-second intervals and has a range of between 20 and 30 meters.

Pausing for breath on a rocky bluff several hundred meters above base camp, it's hard to imagine anything could exist here.

Having just ticked Little Green Bee-eater down to 3 meters, we found 3 male blackcaps in one bush!

The site has a drop of four meters across it and timber boardwalks provide level access and protect the ground from visitor pressure.

This is a fairly complicated feature, which drops about 3 meters over calcited boulders.

Antony Hart scored an outstanding breakaway try running 70 meters into the wind toward the end of the first half.

The next port of call was the data center, buried ten meters down in an immense concrete bunker.

Humboldt's penguins excavate burrows to nest in, usually about 3 meters in length.

An ideal place is a locked cabinet, 1.5 meters (5 feet) off the ground.

Meters with digital cams are calibrated for the use of a sensor instead of film.

After two or three hundred meters we rounded the southern tip and reached the magical cavern.

Make sure you use it in a large field as the turning circle is pretty wide, i'd guess about 70 meters.

Parking is nearby in a grassy clearing, with a short walk (50 meters) to the property.

The plant forms dense clumps up to three meters in height.

We had to rest every hundred meters or so, despite chewing coca leaves to help us cope.

All meters in London take either £ 1 coins or 20p coins (most take both ).

More so because we were surveying as we went and the passage made sharp doglegs every few meters.

Most eruptions are relatively gentle, sending lava flows downslope from fountains a few meters to a few hundred meters high.

Crannogs are mainly sited in 0-5 meters of water on underwater land shelves which stretch out from the shore to deep water drop-offs.

This 2 bedroom duplex house is on a complex just 10 meters from the sea!

Two of the cross cuts extend eastwards for 5 meters, these would have been wardens or first aid posts.

The Health Club is 50 meters away and is shared by the surrounding enclave of chalets.

A " high hedge " is a line of two or more evergreens with a height of more than two meters above ground level.

The main results came from a long trench excavated 25 meters east of Clark's original excavations.

A mini excavator working in the jacking shield, just ahead of the first pipe, removed 290 cubic meters of spoil.

A bird that is found on barren expanses of loose rocks at altitudes of up to 3,500 meters is the ptarmigan.

There are no meters or hidden extras payable on arrival.

At 600 meters above sea level, its rolling fairways need fit legs to walk them but the views are well worth the effort.

There's 150 meters on the spool and it only cost a fiver!