meter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmiːtə/    美 [ˈmiɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device that measures things. countable,uncountable
  2. US standard spelling of metre (“a unit of measure”). US,alt-of,countable,standard,uncountable
    — No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
  3. US standard spelling of metre (“the rhythm or measure in language”). US,alt-of,countable,standard,uncountable
  4. A device that measures things.; A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. countable,uncountable
    — gas meter
  5. A poem. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — A meter of […]berses in the Utopian tongue
  6. One who metes or measures. countable,dated,uncountable
    — a labouring coal-meter
  7. A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. US,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To measure with a metering device.
  2. To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
  3. To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).

词形变化

meters plural meters present,singular,third-person metering participle,present metered participle,past metered past meters plural meters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Ampère meter anglemeter coal-meter cover meter digital meter drift meter dry meter electricity meter electric meter E-meter energy meter exposure meter feed the meter flowmeter gas meter gas meter bandit glossmeter gravity meter light meter meterable meterage meter attendant meterful meter maid meterman meter stamp nuclear hydrogen detection meter parking meter paymeter peak flow meter pH meter pin the meter pressuremeter Q meter rainmeter ramp meter smart meter S meter Stimpmeter submeter survey meter thrustmeter time-of-use meter torque meter trip meter VU meter water meter watt-hour meter wet meter bimeter meterless mismeter meter stick teslameter metric metrical asymmetrical meter asymmetric meter common meter compound meter duple meter hendecameter heptameter heroic meter hexameter hypermeter long meter monometer octameter pentameter polymeter quintuple meter sexameter short meter simple meter sloka meter trimeter
相关词
metster

词源

词源 1
From Middle English metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from Old English metend (“one who measures or metes”), equivalent to mete (“to measure”) + -er. The transference from "person who measures" to "device that measures" was probably assisted by association with -meter, as in barometer, etc.
Cognate with Scots mettar, metter (“meter, measurer”), Saterland Frisian Meter, Meeter (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), West Frisian mjitter (“measurer”), Dutch meter (“measurer, gauge”), German Low German Meter (“measuring device, gauge”), German Messer (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), Swedish mätare (“measurer”).
词源 2
Borrowed from French mètre, itself borrowed from Latin metrum, borrowed from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).
词源 3
From Middle English meter, metre, from Old English meter and Old French metre; both from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).
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