Commentary: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
Examples:
Don't worry his water gun can't squirt farther than one meter.
The smoker ran almost six meters before he began panting.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity
Examples:
I should go back, I didn't put enough money in the parking meter.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: metre, measure, beat, cadence -prosody - the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Examples:
In French poetry , meter is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Commentary: metre, time -rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time
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The irregular meter was comprised of patterns of beats of different lengths.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4