Meter vs Rhyme - What's the difference?
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(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.
(obsolete) Number.
(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
(countable) A word that rhymes with another.
# (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
(uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form).
(linguistics)
(obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
(ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
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Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
(reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
To put words together so that they rhyme.
In obsolete terms the difference between meter and rhyme
is that meter is a poem while rhyme is number.As nouns the difference between meter and rhyme
is that meter is (always meter) A device that measures things while rhyme is number.As verbs the difference between meter and rhyme
is that meter is to measure with a metering device while rhyme is to number; count; reckon.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
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Derived terms
* altimeter * centimeter * common meter * feed the meter * kilometer * long meter * metric * metrical * millimeter * odometer * pedometer * pentameter * short meter * spectropolarimeter * tachymeter * tetrameterAnagrams
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(wikipedia rhyme)Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme .
- Tennyson’s rhymes
- Norse poetry is littered with rhymes''' like "'''s'''ól ... '''s unnan".
- Rap makes use of rhymes such as "money ... honey" and "nope ... dope".
- "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
- The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme .
Hyponyms
* stave-rhyme, end rhyme * internal rhyme, cross rhyme * half rhyme, near rhyme: ** pararhyme, slant rhyme * full rhyme, perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhymeDerived terms
* rhyme or reason * eye rhyme * female rhyme * male rhyme * rhyme royal * sight rhyme * nursery rhymeVerb
- There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side,
- Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
- "Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".
- "Mug" and "rug" rhyme .
- "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
- I rewrote it to make it rhyme .