Definition of Meter

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Definition of Meter

Meter

One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

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

Alt. of Metre

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Meter Quotations

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
Princess Diana

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Wilson

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
Jack Prelutsky

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
Thom Gunn

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.
Steven Chu

Meter Translations

meter in Afrikaans is meter
meter in Dutch is meter, metrum, versmaat
meter in Finnish is metri
meter in Italian is metro
meter in Norwegian is meter
meter in Portuguese is medidor
meter in Spanish is metro, metros

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