meter — ozdic

Collocations

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(noun.)

ADJ

electricity, gas, light, moisture, parking, sound-level, water

card, prepayment, slot, token

The old apartment building had a slot meter in the kitchen that residents used to pay for hot water.

VERB + METER

read

A technician came to read the water meter in our kitchen yesterday morning.

fit, install

METER + VERB

tick

While we waited for the appointment, the parking meter ticked steadily toward the expiration time.

METER + NOUN

reader, reading | box, cupboard

Definitions

noun

1

A device that measures things.

2

A device that measures things.

gas meter

3

One who metes or measures.

a labouring coal-meter

4

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

verb

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).

noun

1

US standard spelling of metre (“unit of measure”).

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

noun — (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

noun — the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme Internati

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

feed the meter

To place coins into a parking meter or gas meter.

Example Bank

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gas meter

Wiktionary

02

a labouring coal-meter

Wiktionary

03

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 ne

Wiktionary

04

A meter of […]berses in the Utopian tongue

Wiktionary

05

A cubic meter corresponds to 1000 liters.

Tatoeba · #1756

06

Read the meter.

Tatoeba · #31847

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, meter is marked as dated, obsolete, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.