metre

noun

/ˈmiːtə(r)/

/ˈmiːtər/

(US English meter)

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[countable]
(abbreviation m)
a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres
- a 50-metre swimming pool
- Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.
- Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.
- The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.
- an athlete running at 10 metres per second
Topics Maths and measurementa1
[countable, uncountable]
(abbreviation m)
used in the name of races
- She came second in the 200 metres.
- the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay
[uncountable, countable] the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this
- She knows a lot about verse metre.
- poems in a variety of metres
- the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer
Topics Literature and writingc2

Word Originsenses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.sense 3 Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron ‘measure’.

单词	metre
释义	metre noun /ˈmiːtə(r)/ /ˈmiːtər/ (US English meter) jump to other results [countable] (abbreviation m) a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres a 50-metre swimming pool Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me. Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available. The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice. an athlete running at 10 metres per second Topics Maths and measurementa1 [countable, uncountable] (abbreviation m) used in the name of races She came second in the 200 metres. the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay [uncountable, countable] the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this She knows a lot about verse metre. poems in a variety of metres the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer Topics Literature and writingc2 Word Originsenses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.sense 3 Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron ‘measure’.
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