meter
noun /ˈmiːtə(r)/
/ˈmiːtər/
- (especially in compounds
尤用于构成复合词 （用于测量电、煤气、水等，以及时间和距离的）计量器，计量表 - A man came to read the gas meter.
有个男子来查过煤气表。 - The cab driver left the meter running while he waited for us.
在等我们的时候，出租车司机让计程表继续走字。 - Installing a smart meter will allow you to see how much water you are using in real time.
安装一个智能电表可以让你实时看到你用了多少水。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- electric
- electricity
- gas
- …
- read
- check
- feed
- …
- run
- tick
- reader
- reading
- maid
- …
- A man came to read the gas meter.
- (also parking meter)a machine next to the road that you put money into when you park your car next to it
米： 当您将车停在路旁时，投入资金的道路旁的机器Collocations Dictionaryadjective- electric
- electricity
- gas
- …
- read
- check
- feed
- …
- run
- tick
- reader
- reading
- maid
- …
- -meter(in compounds
构成复合词 计；仪；表 - speedometer
速度计 - altimeter
高度表 - calorimeter
热量计
- speedometer
- (US English) (British English metre)(abbreviation m)[countable] a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres
测量长度的单位；100厘米 - a 50-meter swimming pool
50米长的游泳池 - an athlete running at 10 meters per second
一名运动员以每秒10米的速度奔跑
- a 50-meter swimming pool
- (US English) (British English metre)(abbreviation m)[countable, uncountable] used in the name of races
用于比赛的名称 - Who holds the record in the 100 meters?
100 米纪录是谁保持的？
- Who holds the record in the 100 meters?
- (US English) (British English metre)[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
词源noun senses 1 to 2 Middle English (in the sense ‘person who measures’): from mete + -er. The current sense dates from the 19th cent.