Meter \Me"ter\, Metre \Me"tre\, n. [OE. metre, F. m[`e]tre, L.
metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See Mete
to measure.]
1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses,
stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on
number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm;
measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical
arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
[1913 Webster]
The only strict antithesis to prose is meter.
--Wordsworth.
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2. A poem. [Obs.]
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
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3. A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the
standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights
and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly,
the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to
the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an
arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.
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Common meter (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines,
making a stanza, the first and third having each four
feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; --
usually indicated by the initials C. M.
Long meter (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines of four feet
each, four verses usually making a stanza; -- commonly
indicated by the initials L. M.
Short meter (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines, the first,
second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third
four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but
is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the
initials S. M.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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194 Moby Thesaurus words for "meter":
Alexandrine, Stabreim, VOM, VTVM, accent, accentuation,
alliterative meter, alternation, ammeter, ampere-hour meter,
amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appraise,
appraiser, appreciate, arsis, assay, assayer, assess, assessor,
bacchius, beat, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calibrate,
caliper, cartographer, catalexis, check a parameter, chloriamb,
chloriambus, chorographer, colon, compute, coulometer,
count-rate meter, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl,
dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dial, dimeter, dipody, divide,
dochmiac, duodial, dynamometer, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, estimate, estimator,
evaluate, evaluator, expansion ammeter, faradmeter, fathom,
feminine caesura, foot, galvanometer, gauge, gauger, geodesist,
graduate, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter,
hexapody, hysteresis meter, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus,
illuminometer, instrument, interferometer, intermittence,
intermittency, ionic, ionization gauge, jingle, land surveyor,
lilt, magnetometer, masculine caesura, measure, measurer,
megohmmeter, mensurate, mete, metrical accent, metrical foot,
metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron,
mhometer, milliammeter, molossus, mora, movement,
moving-coil meter, number, numbers, oceanographer, ohmmeter,
oscillation, pH meter, pace, paeon, pendulum motion, pentameter,
pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion,
plumb, potentiometer, prize, probe, proceleusmatic,
prosodic pattern, prosody, pulsation, pyrrhic, quantify,
quantitative meter, quantity, quantize, rate, reappearance,
recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme,
rhythm, rhythmic pattern, scanning, scansion, seasonality, size,
size up, sound, span, spondee, sprung rhythm, step, stress, survey,
surveyor, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, take a reading, telemeter,
tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thermoammeter, thermocouple,
thermoelectrometer, thesis, time-interval meter, topographer,
triangulate, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
undulation, valuate, valuator, value, valuer, variometer,
vers libre, versification, voltameter, voltmeter, weigh
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Meter \Me"ter\, Metre \Me"tre\, n. [OE. metre, F. m[`e]tre, L.
metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See Mete
to measure.]
1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses,
stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on
number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm;
measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical
arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
The only strict antithesis to prose is meter.
--Wordsworth.
2. A poem. [Obs.]
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the
standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights
and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly,
the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to
the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an
arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.
Common meter (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines,
making a stanza, the first and third having each four
feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; --
usually indicated by the initials C.M.
Long meter (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines of four feet
each, four verses usually making a stanza; -- commonly
indicated by the initials L. M.
Short meter (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines, the first,
second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third
four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but
is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the
initials S. M.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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