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# metre

«metre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a measure of length; a big step is about one metre** — 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 (metre, metres; also meter, meters in American spelling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A metre is a measure of length; a big step is about one metre. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/metre/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [The Mona Lisa is about 77 centimetres tall and 53 centimetres wide; Guernica is almost 8 metres wide.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/12/)
- [Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/14/)
- [The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/14/)
- [Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/5/)
- [The black caiman is the biggest predator of the Amazon, over four metres long, and hunts fish and capybaras at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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