Mitre vs Meter - What's the difference?
mitre | meter |
A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
(heraldry) A heraldic representation of this covering, usually displayed on top of a bishop's or archbishop's coat of arms.
The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
A sort of base money or coin.
(commonwealth)
(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 nouns the difference between mitre and meter
is that mitre is a covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries it has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks while meter is meter (unit of measure, 100 cm).As a verb mitre
is (commonwealth).mitre
English
(wikipedia mitre)Noun
(en noun)- (Fairholt)
See also
* alb * epigonation * epimanikion * epitrachelion * maniple * omophorion * rhason * sakkos * sticharion * zoneVerb
(mitr)Anagrams
* * * * ----meter
English
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.}}