meter
meter 英 [ˈmi:tə(r)] 美 [ˈmitɚ]
n. 米；仪表；计；仪；表
进行时:metering 过去式:metered 过去分词:metered 第三人称单数:meters 名词复数:meters
- The machine at the parking space that takes your quarters is a meter. A meter is also a way of organizing and counting beats in poetry or music, and in the metric system, a meter is roughly equal to a yard.
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- n. 米；仪表；计；仪；表
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1. the gas meter.
煤气表。
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2. 100 meters?
*100 米？
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3. The cab driver left the meter running while he waited for us.
在等我们的时候，出租车司机让计程表继续走字。
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4. speedometer
速度计
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5. altimeter
高度表
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6. A man came to read the gas meter.
有个男子来查过煤气表。
- meter (n.1) also metre, "poetic measure," Old English meter "meter, versification," from Latin metrum, from Greek metron "meter, a verse; that by which anything is measured; measure, length, size, limit, proportion," from PIE root *me- (2) "to measure." Possibly reborrowed early 14c. (after a 300-year gap in recorded use) from Old French metre, with specific sense of "metrical scheme in verse," from Latin metrum.
- meter (n.2) also metre, unit of length, 1797, from French mètre (18c.), from Greek metron "measure," from PIE root *me- (2) "to measure." Developed by French Academy of Sciences for system of weights and measures based on a decimal system originated 1670 by French clergyman Gabriel Mouton. Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the meridian.
- meter (n.3) "device for measuring," abstracted 1832 from gas-meter, etc., from French -mètre, used in combinations (in English from 1790), from Latin metrum "measure" or cognate Greek metron "measure" (from PIE root *me- (2) "to measure"). Influenced by English meter "person who measures" (late 14c., agent noun from mete (v.)). As short for parking meter from 1960. Meter maid first recorded 1957; meter reader 1963.
- meter (v.) "to measure by means of a meter," 1884, from meter (n.3). Meaning "install parking meters" is from 1957.
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