Metre is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for METRE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to measure by mechanical means, also METER
• express in poetry
NOUN:
• the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equal to 100 centimetres or approximately 39.37 inches
• a race over a specified number of metres
• the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line
• the basic rhythmic pattern of beats in a piece of music
• Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
• A poem.
• A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.
• See Meter.
• the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d\'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
• rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
• unit of length
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to meter

Words related to METRE

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Words that contain METRE

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How to use METRE in a sentence

• We know to a metre how far the guns will carry, how many men are required to man them, what stocks of ammunition are close at hand.
• But the other, being in the style and metre of Messer Ariosto, is far more hazardous.
• Kermit went first in his little canoe with the sighting-rod, on which two disks, one red and one white, were placed a metre apart.
• Is the poem under your thumb, emerging from it? and in what metre? May I ask such questions? And does Mr.
• The discovery of the post office is a fine metre of civilization.
• Of the metre Gayatri, which is nothing but a certain special combination of syllables, it could not possibly be said that it is the Self of everything.
• And in his thought he substituted for Lalage the fair-haired Bertha, quite regardless of the requirements of the metre.
• I have been speaking of faults which are aggravated by temptations thrown in the way of modern Writers when they compose in metre.
• Death in such a universal monologue would be but a change of scene or of metre, while in the scramble of a real comedy it would be a change of actors.
• Certainly it would be a great gratification to me to receive the Metre and Grave committed to Mr.
• And the collector has not thought it necessary to choose stanzas written in the same metre, or in the same number of lines.
• The dramatic vivacity with which the whole scene is given, shows that he could use metre as the most skilful performer could command a musical instrument.
• Vergil copied the metre and borrowed the phraseology of Homer, but is never Homeric.
• There was also a number of bronze vessels and weapons, including swords, some of which were nearly a metre in length.
• The fifth metre deposit, however, discloses one important innovation.
• There are, again, some arts which employ all the means above mentioned, namely, rhythm, tune, and metre.
• They differ, in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form.
• The original metre, in every instance, has been strictly adhered to.
• This was not a particularly happy experiment, since it ignored the fact that the character of a metre may differ considerably in different languages.
• You can boil a kettle or broil a moose-steak on this gas-jet in six minutes, and there is no thought of accusing metre to mar your joy.
• The permanent elements of what he presented, the material, the ideas, even the style and metre, already existed.
• They were dear to the eighteenth century, and, much more than the heroic couplet, are the distinctive metre of that age.
• But as the laws of metre are included in the idea of grammar, I have thought proper to insert them.
• As to literary and poetic canons, his varied metre, and his stories in the style of Wordsworth, show that he had abandoned all former schools.

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