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metre::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | meter, time |
| Type of | rhythmicity |
| Derivation | metric |
metre::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beat, cadence, measure, meter |
| Type of | prosody, poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern |
| Has types | catalexis, common measure, common meter, foot, metrical foot, metrical unit, scansion |
| Derivation | metrical |
metre::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | m, meter |
| Type of | metric linear unit |
| Derivation | metrical |
Examples of metre
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Junior, the Heart of the Nation festival's Biggest Fan, is a 5 metre marionette.
From the nznewsuk.co.uk
Fans of judo should thus be as easy to satisfy as those of the 100-metre sprint.
From the economist.com
The CBI built a 15-metre-deep reservoir in Yogyakarta to contain polluted water.
From the guardian.co.uk
They hope to provide accuracy down to 1 metre, compared with the US's 10 metres.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The trees of choice are those that are around, or over the four metre tall mark.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
Working up from a one-metre kicker, I'd made it to the 20m monster by day three.
From the guardian.co.uk
Even the smallest unit, the LRAD 100X, emits as much as 137 decibels at 1 metre.
From the independent.co.uk
The formation would have to fly with a precision of a few billionths of a metre.
From the economist.com
A 240-metre long bulk carrier needs six tugs to guide it into the entrance lock.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
- Meter: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
- Meter: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- Meter: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- The metre (or meter), symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole, its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology. ...
- A hymn meter or metre indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza of a hymn. This provides a means of marrying the hymn's text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing.
- Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry (Scholes 1977; Latham 2002) where it means the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables in each line and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented (Scholes 1977; ...
- In poetry, the meter (or metre) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. The study of metres and forms of versification is known as prosody. ...
- "The Metre" and "Waiting for the Sun" are two songs released together as a double A-Side single by Powderfinger in support of their fourth studio album Odyssey Number Five. It was released on August 27, 2001 and reached #31 on the Australian music chart. ...
- (Metres) The measurement of the length of a swimming pool that was built per specs using the metric system. Long course is 50 metres and short course is 25 metres.
