meter
part of speech
noun (meter, meters); verb (meter, meters, metered — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) A meter is a unit for measuring length. A meter has 100 centimeters; it is about one big step of a grown-up. tree →
2) A meter is also a tool that measures and shows how much of something is used, like a water meter, a gas meter or a parking meter. tree →
3) In poems, meter is the beat or rhythm of the lines. tree →
sense in the lessons
a unit of length for ribbons, ropes, fences, roads and runs; problems give meters per piece, meters run per minute or meters to change into centimeters; in science lengths are written in meters (m); in everyday life a parking meter or taxi meter counts money; phrases «square meter», «cubic meter», «100-meter race»
examples
- A rope is 12 meters long. tree →
- Sam runs 400 meters every day. tree →
- The fence is 3 meters longer than the wall. tree →
- How many centimeters are in 5 meters? tree →
- The pool is 25 meters long. tree →
- Dad put coins in the parking meter. tree →
- The room has an area of 20 square meters. tree →
- The water meter shows how much water we used. tree →
note
A unit, not a thing counted: the number before it is the length. 1 meter = 100 centimeters, 1000 meters = 1 kilometer. Trap: change units before you add meters to centimeters. «Meter» is the US spelling; in the UK, Australia and Ireland the unit is «metre», but a measuring tool is a «meter» everywhere. Short form m.
In the corpora
- Scientists also use electronic pH meters.
- For example, a man knocks and says he has come to read the gas meter.
- Prepayment meters often have emergency credit, and councils and charities can help families who run out often.
- A square with sides of 5 m has an area of 5 × 5 = 25 square meters.
- A garden 8 m long and 6 m wide has 8 × 6 = 48 square meters.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «meter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.