Metres is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for METRES in dictionary:

VERB:
• METRE, to measure by mechanical means, also METER
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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to meter

Words related to METRES

metre7 metred9 metring10

Words that contain METRES

mismetres13 exametres18 decametres15 decimetres15 dekametres17 kilometres16 metrestick18 nanometres12 picometres16 petametres14 attometres12 centimetres15 hectometres18 metresticks19 micrometres17 millimetres15 submillimetres20

How to use METRES in a sentence

• One of the first books on Ski-running advises people to carry some 60 metres of red tape and to let this trail behind them when crossing dangerous ground.
• Quick as a flash, he lowered the bill, grabbed the boy, and tossed him a couple of metres in the air.
• A quay 200 metres long, to which boats with a draught of three metres can tie up.
• In one incident, a rural correspondent sent me a report stating that a building constructed by a firm and owned by an MLA, was being built barely metres from a high tension pole.
• Nelson finished his series of temperatures and samples to-day with an observation at 1800 metres.
• They are covered with grass two metres in height, a certain proof of the advantages that might be derived from the cultivation of this island.
• At this camping-place the great, beautiful river was a little over three hundred metres wide.
• The rapids had a fall of over ten metres, and the water was very wild and rough.
• The balloon rose rapidly, and stopped at twelve hundred metres.
• The imprudent men rose to a height of four hundred metres, and encountered opposing winds, which drove them over the ocean.
• The volume of water which the Nile pours into the Mediterranean during a day and night is estimated at from 150,000 millions to 700,000 millions of cubic metres.
• North America has a mean elevation of 700 metres over sea level, whereas the mean elevation of Europe is but 300 metres.
• In the first place, the assemblage, in a space forty metres long by thirty wide, of a hundred condemned or suspected criminals, does not constitute the cream of society.
• The placid stream, about a hundred metres wide and broken here and there by islets, wanders from one bank to the other, lined by poplars and willows.
• Thus, to a depth of 100 metres, we find a succession of diversified strata, hard and soft, dry and moist, which impart great variety to the landscape.
• Much also is in exotic and unaccustomed metres, which to the great bulk of English readers must always be more of a discipline than of a delight.
• And, even when he wrote in our indigenous metres, his ear often played him false.
• As many as 30 of them have been killed during one night, but the sap has been carried to within less than 400 metres of the ramparts.
• About 3,500 metres from that fort there is a very awkward plateau called La Bergerie.
• The Delta of the Volga and the Caspian Sea lie twenty-five metres below the level of the Black Sea.
• If a narrative poem in any other metre or in many metres were now composed, it would be found incongruous.
• Still more absurd would it be to mix together different metres, as was done by Chaeremon.
• If, therefore, we have had an initial velocity of 11,000 metres, when we get past the atmosphere it will be reduced to 7,332 metres.
• They present an average height of 3,200 metres, a height comparable to certain of the Pyrenees.
• Barbicane was at the altitude of the 20th lunar parallel, not far from that little mountain, 1,559 metres high, which bears the name of Pythias.
• It results from their calculations that 6 of these mountains rise above 5,800 metres, and 22 above 4,800.
• He wrote in the broad Spartan dialect with a mixture of the Aeolic, and in various metres.
• He can adapt his metres to the expression of every shade of feeling.
• If the lake was ever sounded from Chillon, it was probably sounded in metres, not fathoms.
• The mounds are then erected right up against the walls of the building, exceeding them in height by several metres.
• In this state it resists the shock produced by the firing of a cannon, when contained in a projectile, having an initial velocity of 600 metres.

Similar words containing METRE without suffix s

metre7 metred9 mismetre12 exametre17 decametre14 decimetre14 dekametre16 kilometre15 mismetred14 mismetres13 nanometre11 picometre15 exametres18 petametre13 attometre11 centimetre14 decametres15 decimetres15 dekametres17 hectometre17 kilometres16 metrestick18 micrometre16 millimetre14 nanometres12 picometres16 petametres14 attometres12 centimetres15 hectometres18 metresticks19 micrometres17 millimetres15 submillimetre19 submillimetres20 micromillimetre23

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