metre

Etymology 1
From, from. .

Noun

 * 1) The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to $39 47/127$ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.

Usage notes

 * The spelling metre is used by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English-language texts, and is used in all English-speaking countries other than the US. The spelling used in the US is meter—for instance, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual use meter.

Translations

 * Adyghe: метр
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሜትር
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: متر
 * Hijazi Arabic: متر
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: metru
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: метр
 * Belarusian: метр, мэ́тар
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 公尺
 * Dungan: ми, метр
 * Hakka: 米, 公尺, 米打
 * Hokkien:, , 米達
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: meeter
 * Faroese: metur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მეტრი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: મીટર
 * Haitian Creole: mèt
 * Hawaiian: mīka
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: metra
 * Interlingua: metro
 * Irish: méadar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Jarai: mĕt
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: метр
 * Khmer: ម៉ែត្រ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦶᦙᧆ
 * Macedonian: метар
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: mita
 * Mòcheno: meter
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Ossetian: метр
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ме̏тар
 * Roman:
 * Shan: မႅတ်
 * Sinhalese: මීටර්
 * Slovak: meter
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, panukat
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: метр
 * Telugu: మీటరు
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ሜትሮ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: metr
 * Ukrainian: метр
 * Urdu: میٹر
 * Uyghur: مېتىر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Walloon:
 * Yakut: миэтэрэ
 * Yiddish: מעטער
 * Yoruba: mítà

Usage notes
The standard spelling of the verb meaning to measure is meter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spelling metre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.

Translations

 * German: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  To put into metrical form.

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) /meter
 * 2)  /meter

Etymology 2
, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to put, to place
 * 2)  to set
 * 1)  to set

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to put

Etymology
From, from , present active infinitive of. Attested from the 12th century.

Verb

 * 1)  to put, to place

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to put, to place

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * , meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
 * 1) rule, folding rule