Mete
[miːt] or [mit]
Definition
(n.) Meat.
(v. t. & i.) To meet.
(v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.
(a.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.
(v. i.) To measure.
(n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.
Typist: Penelope
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Measure.
n. Measure, bound, limit, term, boundary, terminus, butt.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Measure, apportion, distribute
ANT:Misdeal, misapportion
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Definition
v.t. to measure.—ns. Mete′wand a measuring-stick; Mete′yard (B.) a yard or rod for meting or measuring.
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Examples
- You have heard the fate that the men of Zodanga would mete to Helium's noblest hero. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You did not know the measure you were going to mete me, and therefore did not know the measure that would be returned to you again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- With what measure ye mete, the same shall be meted unto you. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We will remember that with what measure we mete it shall be measured unto us, and so we will give no scorn, only affection. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This was the clause--and no one who reads it can fail, I think, to agree with me that it meted out equal justice to all parties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Chance has meted you a measure of happiness: that I know. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- With what measure ye mete, the same shall be meted unto you. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let us hope that there it will be meted to the therns as they have meted it here unto others. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- What reward shall be meted to John Carter in accordance with the acts he has committed? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She meted out a wide space between us, and kept me aloof by the reserved gesture, the rare and alienated glance, the word calmly civil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is here that Martian justice is meted to benefactor and malefactor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She realized the stern retribution which justice metes to the murderer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- We apply our measure to uniform extension, meting out the waters by fathoms or space by the sun's diame ter, and even subject time to arbitrary divisions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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