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Metres Noun ˈmiːtə(R ˈmiːtər 50 Metre Swimming Pool Cat
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metre |
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/ˈmiːtə(r)/ /ˈmiːtər/ |
Example |
- a 50-metre swimming pool
- every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.
- over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.
- the huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.
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metre(noun)/ˈmiːtə(r)/ /ˈmiːtər/- a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres
- a 50-metre swimming pool
- Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.
- Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.
- The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.
- an athlete running at 10 metres per second
- used in the name of races
- She came second in the 200 metres.
- the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay
- the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this
- She knows a lot about verse metre.
- poems in a variety of metres
- the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer
Word Origin- senses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.
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