| meter | |
| 1. n. (always meter) A device that measures things. | |
| 2. n. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | |
| gas meter (also falls under sense 1) | |
| 3. n. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures. | |
| a labouring coal-meter | |
| 4. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the d | |
| 5. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure. | |
| 6. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem. | |
| 7. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) A poem. | |
| 9. v. to measure with a metering device. | |
| 10. v. to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter | |
| 11. v. to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath) | |
