The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).

synoniemen: m, metre.

Roget 200: length, longitude, span; mileage; distance etc. 196.    line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.    lengthening etc. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension, tensure^†; extension.    [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent^†, handbreadth^†, jornada [U.S.], kos^†, vara^†.    [astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light-year, parsec.    [metric units of length] nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km.    pedometer, perambulator; scale etc. (measurement) 466.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: meter, metriek
Pools: m, metr

Any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity.

Nederlands: teller, meter, klok
Pools: miernik

prosody The accent in a metrical foot of verse.

synoniemen: beat, cadence, measure, metre.

Roget 597: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon^†, Pierides, Pierian spring.    versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry^†.    poem; epic, epic poem; epopee^†, epopoea, ode, epode^†, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic^†, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet^†, cento^†, monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal^†, palinode.    dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music etc. 415; nursery rhymes.    [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse^†, prose run mad; macaronics^†; macaronic verse^†, leonine verse; runes.    canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe^†.    verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^†, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation etc. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^†, antispast^†, blank verse, ictus.    elegiacs etc. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.    poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist^†, scald, skald^†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore^†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist^†, rhymester; ballad monger, runer^†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 466: measurement, admeasurement^†, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning etc. (numeration) 85; gauging etc. v.; horse power.    metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic.    measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers; gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo^†.    flood mark, high water mark; Plimsoll line; index etc. 550.    scale; graduation, graduated scale; nonius^†; vernier etc. (minuteness) 193.    [instruments for measuring] bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer^†, pantometer^†, pluviometer^†, pneumatometer^†, pneumometer^†, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer^†, telemeter, udometer^†, vacuometer^†, variometer^†, viameter^†, thermometer, thermistor (heat) etc. 382, barometer (air) etc. 338, anemometer (wind) 349, dynamometer, goniometer, (angle) 244 meter; landmark etc. (limit) 233; balance, scale etc. (weight) 319; marigraph^†, pneumatograph^†, stethograph^†; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter (volts), ammeter (amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer (molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter (radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar, (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). measurability, computability, determinability^†.    coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth.    geometry, stereometry^†, hypsometry^†; metage^†; surveying, land surveying; geodesy, geodetics^†, geodesia^†; orthometry^†, altimetry^†; cadastre [Fr.].    astrolabe, armillary sphere^†.    land surveyor; geometer.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: tok, miara wierszowa, metrum

Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration.

synoniemen: metre, time.

Measure with a meter.

Stamp with a meter indicating the postage.