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# metre

noun (metre, metres; also meter, meters in American spelling)

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

## Everyday

1. A metre is a measure of length; a big step is about one metre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#m1)
2. A meter is also a machine that measures something, like a water meter or a parking meter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#m2)
3. Metre can mean the beat in a poem or a song. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#m3)

### In the lessons

the unit the lengths are told in: a metre is 100 centimetres, a kilometre is 1000 metres; in sport races are run in metres; phrases: «metres long», «metres wide», «metres high», «square metre», «per metre»

### Examples

- A rope is 21 metres long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x1)
- Sam runs 100 metres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x2)
- The garden is 8 metres long and 5 metres wide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x3)
- A metre is 100 centimetres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x4)
- A kilometre is 1000 metres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x5)
- The door is about 2 metres high. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x6)
- The giraffe is over 5 metres tall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x7)
- Measure the room with a metre stick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#x8)

### Note

«A metre is 100 centimetres.» «A kilometre is 1000 metres.» Short form: m (21 m). Lengths in the same unit are added and taken away like counts. Trap: check that both lengths use metres before adding.

## On Mova

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