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
M meter 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 .
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1913 Webster ]
Meter \
Me "
ter \,
n . [
From {
Mete }
to measure .]
1 .
One who ,
or that which ,
metes or measures .
See {
Coal -
meter }.
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2 .
An instrument for measuring ,
and usually for recording automatically ,
the quantity measured .
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{
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 .
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Meter \
Me "
ter \,
n .
A line above or below a hanging net ,
to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it .
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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 .
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The only strict antithesis to prose is meter .
--
Wordsworth .
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2 .
A poem . [
Obs .] --
Robynson (
More '
s Utopia ).
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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 }.
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{
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 .
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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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