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# meter

noun (meter, meters); verb (meter, meters, metered — rare)

«meter» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#m1)
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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#m2)
3. In poems, meter is the beat or rhythm of the lines. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x1)
- Sam runs 400 meters every day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x2)
- The fence is 3 meters longer than the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x3)
- How many centimeters are in 5 meters? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x4)
- The pool is 25 meters long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x5)
- Dad put coins in the parking meter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x6)
- The room has an area of 20 square meters. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x7)
- The water meter shows how much water we used. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#x8)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «meter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«meter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/meter.html) on Mova free.