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Definition of Meter
Meter

One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Alt. of Metre

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Meter Quotations

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
Princess Diana

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush

Meter Translations

meter in Afrikaans is meter
meter in Dutch is meter, metrum, versmaat
meter in Finnish is metri
meter in Italian is metro
meter in Norwegian is meter
meter in Portuguese is medidor
meter in Spanish is metro, metros


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