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Synonyms for metre
ˈmi tərme·tre

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Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. meter, metre, mnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    time, one thousand, meter, beat, yard, cadence, m, molarity, mebibyte, measure, thou, megabyte, grand, molar concentration, thousand, chiliad

  2. meter, metre, measure, beat, cadencenoun

    (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

    Synonyms:
    measure, standard, time, pulse, meter, quantity, beat, amount, mensuration, measuring, criterion, musical rhythm, m, round, pulsation, step, bill, rhythm, measurement, bar, beatnik, heartbeat, cadency, cadence, measuring rod, touchstone, measuring stick

  3. meter, metre, timenoun

    rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

    Synonyms:
    measure, meter, clip, m, cadence, sentence, prison term, fourth dimension, beat, time, clock time

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. metrenoun

    Synonyms:
    [Written also meter.] measure (of verse), rhythmical arrangement (of syllables), poetical measure

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "metre":

    metres, metro, meter, meters, m, feet, yards, cube

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How to use metre in a sentence?

  1. Yubaraj Khadka:

    There was no one-metre distancing. That’s what I wanted to show, even at the factory, after the first few months (of infections in Malaysia), the social distancing markers were thrown out.

  2. Dr Jones:

    The Wars of the Roses are whatGames of Thronesis based on, and this is the Wars of the Roses laid out across a 5-metre, visually spectacular document, it features contributions from both the key players in the Wars of the Roses — it was originally drawn up by the Lancastrian side in the conflict but it fell into Yorkist hands and they rewrote part of it.

  3. Eric Rignot:

    That's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, as the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-metre sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries.

  4. Martin Garside:

    It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

  5. Dr Sheng Hu:

    It looks extremely simple and equally promising, because graphene can be produced these days in square metre sheets, we hope that it will find its way to commercial fuel cells sooner rather than later.


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