Definitions
1.noun(always meter) A device that measures things.
2.noun(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
3.noun(always meter) One who metes or measures."a labouring coal-meter"
4.noun(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 distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
5.noun(elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
6.noun(elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
7.noun(elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
8.nounA poem.
9.verbTo measure with a metering device.
10.verbTo imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
11.verbTo regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).