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metre

noun
 
🔊/ˈmiːtə(r)/
🔊/ˈmiːtər/
(US English meter)
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  1.  
     [countable]
    (abbreviation m)
    a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres米；公尺
    • a 50-metre swimming pool一个50米的游泳池
    • Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.猫每隔几米就停下来转身看着我。
    • Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.提供超过3700平方米的办公空间。
    • The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.巨大的雕塑由500立方米的冰制成。
    • an athlete running at 10 metres per second一个以每秒10米的速度跑的运动员
    Topics Maths and measurementa1
  2. [countable, uncountable]
    (abbreviation m)
    used in the name of races用于竞赛名称
    • She came second in the 200 metres.在 200 米比赛中，她取得了第二名。🔊🔊
    • the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay4 × 100 米接力赛
  3. [uncountable, countable] the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this（诗的）格律
    • She knows a lot about verse metre.她很懂诗律。
    • poems in a variety of metres不同韵律的诗
    • the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer六分仪，荷马史诗般的仪表
    Topics Literature and writingc2
    4. 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’.