What is the difference between feet and meter?
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(foot).
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
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, chapter=14 (lb) Fact; performance; feat.
(always meter ) A device that measures things.
(always meter ) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
(always meter ) (dated) One who metes or measures.
(chiefly, US, 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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, title= (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
(obsolete) A poem.
In obsolete terms the difference between feet and meter
is that feet is fact; performance; feat while meter is a poem.As nouns the difference between feet and meter
is that feet is irregular plural of foot while meter is (always meter) A device that measures things.As a verb meter is
to measure with a metering device.feet
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Noun
(head)citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Derived terms
* a closed mouth gathers no feet * crow's-feet * cubic feet * drag one's feet * fall on one's feet * fall over one's feet * feet first * feet of clay * feet first * feetless * feetlong * find one's feet * flat feet * get cold feet * get one's feet wet * have one's feet on the ground * hold someone's feet to the fire * itchy feet * land on one's feet * metric feet * on one's feet * out on one's feet * put one's feet up * puppy feet * quick on his feet * six feet under * stand on one's own two feet * stocking-feet * think on one's feet * two left feet * vote with one's feet * washing of feet * See alsoStatistics
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* ----meter
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Alternative forms
* metre (Commonwealth English for noun senses 4 to 7, rare for other senses)Noun
(en noun)- gas meter
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter ) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}