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# meter

«meter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a unit for measuring length** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Scientists also use electronic pH meters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/17/)
- [For example, a man knocks and says he has come to read the gas meter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/6/)
- [Prepayment meters often have emergency credit, and councils and charities can help families who run out often.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/31/)
- [A square with sides of 5 m has an area of 5 × 5 = 25 square meters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/106-area-of-a-rectangle/3/)
- [A garden 8 m long and 6 m wide has 8 × 6 = 48 square meters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/110-fractions-and-shapes-review/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.