metre

• meter

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtəɹ/, [ˈmiːɾɚ]

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• Hyphenation: me‧tre
• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of metron.

metre (plural metres)

1. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
   • 1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, number 3:

     The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre.

   • 1873, The Young Englishwoman, April

     A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.

   • 1928, The Observer, April 15

     The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.

• The spelling metre is used by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English-language texts, and is used in all English-speaking countries other than the US. The spelling used in the US is meter- for instance, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual use meter.

• m

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• Tok Pisin: mita
• → Burmese: မီတာ (mita)
• → Chinese: 米突 (mǐtū, mǐtú)
• → Japanese: メーター (mētā)
• → Korean: 미터 (miteo) (South Korea), 메터 (meteo) (North Korea, China)
• → Maori: mita
• → Swahili: mita
• → Yoruba: mítà

• Appendix on SI Units

“metre”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• SI prefixes
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter

The standard spelling of the verb meaning to measure is meter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spelling metre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.

From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek See #Etymology 1.

metre (plural metres) (Britain, Canada)

1. The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

• metronome
• metric
• Wikipedia article: metre (poetry)

• -meter, -treme, Emert, meter, remet, retem

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈmə.tɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.tɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tɾe/

Borrowed from French mètre.

metre m (plural metres)

1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)

• metratge

From Old Catalan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mittō. Compare Occitan metre, French mettre, Spanish meter.

metre (first-person singular present meto, past participle mes)

1. to put, to place

   Synonym: posar

2. to set

• “metre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “metre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “metre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “metre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mittō. Attested from the 12th century.[1]

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metre

1. (transitive) to put, to place

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• mesa

From Latin mittere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmetɾə/

metre

1. to put, to place

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: mettre, mectre, metre
  • French: mettre
• Norman: maette (Guernsey), mettre (Jersey)

From Ottoman Turkish متره‎ (metre), from French mètre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmetɾe/

metre (definite accusative metreyi, plural metreler)

1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
2. rule, folding rule