What is the difference between mete and meter?
mete | meter |
(transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.
* 1611 — 7:2
* 1870s , Soothsay , lines 80-83
To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
* 1833 —
(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.
As verbs the difference between mete and meter
is that mete is to measure while meter is to measure with a metering device.As nouns the difference between mete and meter
is that mete is a boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere while meter is (always meter) A device that measures things.mete
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Anagrams
* meet, teemEtymology 1
From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) .Verb
(met)- For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete , it shall be measured to you again.
- ''the Power that fashions man
- ''Measured not out thy little span
- ''For thee to take the meting -rod
- ''In turn,
- Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
- Unequal laws unto a savage race
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) ("distaff").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.}}