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Meta vs Mett - What's the difference?

meta | mett |

As nouns the difference between meta and mett

is that meta is boundary marker while mett is an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.

As an adjective meta

is self-referential; at a higher level.

meta

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Self-referential; at a higher level
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity citation
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  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do? citation
    • , passage=Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta , very '97. I can't use it." }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • boundary marker
  • Either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    mett

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mitta

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168:
    • Once the mitta, or mett , a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire.