meter

1 The meter of a piece of music is the arrangement of its rhythms in a repetitive pattern of strong and weak beats.

2 So I would not say”—here she was crisp and sharp—“'Betty bought a bit of better butter’ or ‘Insert a quarter in the meter.’

3 Sojourner rover brought out, placed 1 meter due north of lander.

4 In the final fifty meters, the Washington boat surged forward again, quickly closing in on California.

5 For example, music for walking or marching is in duple meter and uses steady quarter notes, running music contains eighth notes, skipping music uses dotted rhythms, jumping music contains large interval leaps, and so forth.

6 I pictured the phone, in the sacristy, only a few meters from the nave.

7 But their services lasted even longer, and often W.E. would have to run in and get the old man out of his service while the taxi meter impatiently ticked away.

8 "That was his time for the one hundred meter."

9 The total floor space of the Hab is about 92 square meters.

10 A few hundred meters away at the top of the nearest hill stood a cluster of ruins.

11 Although we left the Col as members of three distinct expeditions, our fates were already starting to intertwine—and they would become more and more tightly bound with every meter we ascended.

12 I got a cubic meter in before getting exhausted.

13 Water is metered and charged for.

自来水是用水表计量收费的。

14 Some towered over two meters tall, high enough that I couldn’t see beyond their petals.

15 “One thousand five hundred meters,” the altimeter calls out.

16 “Volt meter’s down around nine somewhere. Alternator belts were loose, I guess. I got ’em tightened up better now, but meanwhile I’m dead in the water.”

17 While we waited the taxi's meter kept ticking away.

我们等候时，出租汽车的计程器一直在滴答滴答地走着。

18 Even from thirty meters away I could smell it and taste it.

19 Two meters down with shattered pottery covering his eyes and his body shrouded in white linen.

20 Like no one really caring that I'm running a mile—1600 meters—faster than they can probably run a block.

1 音步

foot

2 计

-meter indicator for gauge number

3 格律

rhythm

4 公尺

metric M. geographical mile nautical mile -meter

5 计量器

gauge measurer gauger computer

6 韵律

metrical measure rhythm cadence time lilt metric eurythmic number movement swing verse

7 盖有邮资已付戳记的信封

frank

8 计程器

taximeter

9 表

watch table ticker -meter list indicator timepiece form figure fig. gauge tabular schedule super scheme scroll cover

10 仪

-meter indicator

11 计费器

taximeter

12 拍子

time measure movement beat pace pulse tempo m. number cadence

13 米

rice metre m metric metrical paddy

14 计量官

gauger

15 韵

rhyme

16 的变体

ID -ique shew rime compleat Hindoo curst burthen murther e'en marchpane hautboy wrick bale gaol fount reflexion gaoler gramme ghyll nett bodge blether cyder paramoecium jerrymander hemo- cheiro- chemi- -coele my- tarso- O ass-licking ass plow asshole tidbit Jimmy kinfolk drouth dependent set tire torque bait caster Scotch checker peddler Sol relator go-cart gaberdine covenanter cabbala blest e'er whate'er howe'er where'er whene'er whatsoe'er wheresoe'er whoe'er whensoe'er bin- par- Vegeburger -ick -ie -ise -ane -yer -our No labor durned check story prize gray pi savory rigor groin putter gage arbor armory jibe practice -eth disk homeopathy Cesarean homeopath whap hallo Welch cabala obi kabbala cuscus shivaree excentric Nowel barkentine

17 节拍

beat rhythm

18 计量

measure gauge