Слово англійською: metre
Іменник
Переклад metre українською: метр (міра), розмір, ритм, метр (віршовий)
Детальний опис
metre
noun /ˈmiːtər/
(US English meter)
- [countable]
(abbreviation m)
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
- [countable, uncountable]
(abbreviation m)
used in the name of races- She came second in the 200 metres.
- the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay
- [uncountable, countable] 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 Originsenses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.sense 3 Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron ‘measure’.