Mete vs Cete - What's the difference?
mete | cete |
As a verb mete is . As a noun cete is (rare) a cetacean.
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mete English
Anagrams
* meet, teem
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) .
Verb
( met)
(transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.
* 1611 — 7:2
- For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete , it shall be measured to you again.
* 1870s , Soothsay , lines 80-83
- ''the Power that fashions man
- ''Measured not out thy little span
- ''For thee to take the meting -rod
- ''In turn,
To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
* 1833 —
- Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
- Unequal laws unto a savage race
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) ("distaff").
Noun
( en noun)
A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
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cete English
Noun
( en noun)
(rare) A cetacean
(obsolete) A company of badgers
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