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meter 音標拼音: [m'itɚ] n. 公尺,韻律,計量器
vt. 以計量器計量 公尺,韻律,計量器以計量器計量 meter儀表;米 Mmeter計 公尺 米 meter n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d' Unites ( approximately 1. 094 yards) [ synonym: { meter}, { metre}, { m}] 2: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity 3: ( prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [ synonym: { meter}, { metre}, { measure}, { beat}, { cadence}] 4: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration [ synonym: { meter}, { metre}, { time}] v 1: measure with a meter; " meter the flow of water" 2: stamp with a meter indicating the postage; " meter the mail" - meter \- me" ter\ [ L. metrum measure, or the allied Gr. ?. See { Meter} rhythm.] A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer. [ 1913 Webster]
Meter \ Me" ter\, n. [ From { Mete} to measure.] 1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See { Coal- meter}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. [ 1913 Webster] { Dry meter}, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. { Wet meter}, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it. [ 1913 Webster]
Meter \ Me" ter\, n. A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. [ 1913 Webster] Meter
Meter \ Me" ter\, Metre \ Me" tre\, n. [ OE. metre, F. m[` e] tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[= a] to measure. See { Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. [ 1913 Webster] The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. -- Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A poem. [ Obs.] -- Robynson ( More' s Utopia). [ 1913 Webster] 3. A measure of length, equal to 39. 37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See { Metric system}, under { Metric}. [ 1913 Webster] { Common meter} ( Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines, making a stanza, the first and third having each four feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; -- usually indicated by the initials C. M. { Long meter} ( Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines of four feet each, four verses usually making a stanza; -- commonly indicated by the initials L. M. { Short meter} ( Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines, the first, second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the initials S. M. [ 1913 Webster] 194 Moby Thesaurus words for " meter": Alexandrine, Stabreim, VOM, VTVM, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, alternation, ammeter, ampere- hour meter, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appraise, appraiser, appreciate, arsis, assay, assayer, assess, assessor, bacchius, beat, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calibrate, caliper, cartographer, catalexis, check a parameter, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorographer, colon, compute, coulometer, count- rate meter, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dial, dimeter, dipody, divide, dochmiac, duodial, dynamometer, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, estimate, estimator, evaluate, evaluator, expansion ammeter, faradmeter, fathom, feminine caesura, foot, galvanometer, gauge, gauger, geodesist, graduate, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hysteresis meter, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, illuminometer, instrument, interferometer, intermittence, intermittency, ionic, ionization gauge, jingle, land surveyor, lilt, magnetometer, masculine caesura, measure, measurer, megohmmeter, mensurate, mete, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mhometer, milliammeter, molossus, mora, movement, moving- coil meter, number, numbers, oceanographer, ohmmeter, oscillation, pH meter, pace, paeon, pendulum motion, pentameter, pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plumb, potentiometer, prize, probe, proceleusmatic, prosodic pattern, prosody, pulsation, pyrrhic, quantify, quantitative meter, quantity, quantize, rate, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, scanning, scansion, seasonality, size, size up, sound, span, spondee, sprung rhythm, step, stress, survey, surveyor, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, take a reading, telemeter, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thermoammeter, thermocouple, thermoelectrometer, thesis, time- interval meter, topographer, triangulate, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, undulation, valuate, valuator, value, valuer, variometer, vers libre, versification, voltameter, voltmeter, weigh |
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