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mete
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
- Homophones: meat, meet
Etymology 1
From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-Germanic *metan? (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”). Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek ???????? (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek ???????? (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian ??? (mit, “mind”).
Verb
mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)
- (transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 7:2
- For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Soothsay, lines 80-83
- the Power that fashions man
- Measured not out thy little span
- For thee to take the meting-rod
- In turn,
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 7:2
- (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
- 1833 — Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
- Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
- Unequal laws unto a savage race
- 1929 — Kirby Page, Jesus Or Christianity A Study In Contrasts, p. 31.
- Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.
- 1833 — Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English mete, borrowed from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin m?ta (“post, goal, marker”). Cognate with the second element in Old English wullmod (“distaff”).
Noun
mete (plural metes)
- A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
Etymology 3
Adjective
mete (comparative more mete, superlative most mete)
- Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”)
Anagrams
- Teme, etem, meet, teem, teme
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m?t?]
Verb
mete
- third-person singular present indicative of mést
Dutch
Verb
mete
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of meten
Anagrams
- meet
Estonian
Noun
mete
- genitive plural of mesi
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French mettre (“put, put on”)
Verb
mete
- put
- put on
Italian
Noun
mete f
- plural of meta
Anagrams
- teme, temè, temé
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?me.te/, [?m?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?me.te/, [?m??t??]
Verb
mete
- second-person singular present active imperative of met?
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French mettre. Compare Haitian Creole mete.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mete/
Verb
mete (medial form met)
- to put; put on
- to set
- to wear
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English mete (“food”) (also met, mett, whence the forms with a short vowel). More at meat.
Alternative forms
- mæte, meet, meete, mette
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??t(?)/, /m?t/
Noun
mete (plural metes or meten)
- Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is eaten:
- A store or supply of food.
- An individual serving of food, especially when cooked.
- Meat; the (usually cooked) flesh of animals as (an item of) food.
- Food that animals eat (including prey or lures)
- The act of dining; a lunch.
Derived terms
- bake mete
- meteles
Descendants
- English: meat
- Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
- Yola: met, maate
References
- “m??te, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old French mete (“boundary, mere”), from Latin m?ta. More at mete.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??t(?)/
Noun
mete
- boundary, target, point, position
Descendants
- English: mete
Etymology 3
From Old English ?em?te (“suitable, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *m?tijaz, a variant of *m?tiz. More at meet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??t(?)/
Alternative forms
- meete
Adjective
mete
- suitable, fitting, appropriate
- pleasing, accommodating, useful
- right in shape or size, well-fitting
Descendants
- English: meet
- Scots: mete, meit
Adverb
mete
- appropriately
- copiously
References
- The Middle English Dictionary (M.E.D.)[1]
- Riverside Chaucer[2]
Old English
Alternative forms
- met, mett, mette
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *mati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?me.te/
Noun
mete m
- food
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: mete, mæte, meet, meete, mette
- English: meat
- Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
- Yola: met, maate
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
- meit, met
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *mati.
Noun
mete
- food, especially sustenance (as opposed to desserts, snacks, or sweets)
Descendants
- North Frisian: meet
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?.t(?)i/
- Hyphenation: me?te
- Rhymes: -?t(?)i
Verb
mete
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of meter
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of meter
Rawa
Adjective
mete
- good
References
- Norma Toland, Donald Toland, Reference Grammar of the Karo/Rawa Language (1991)
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
mete (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person singular present of mesti
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mete/, [?me.t?e]
Verb
mete
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of meter.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of meter.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of meter.
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French metre, from Latin mitt?, mittere (“send”).
Verb
mete
- to put
Conjugation
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allocate
English
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin allocare, from ad- (“to”) + locus (“place”), plus Latinate English suffix +? -ate. Compare allocable, without the -ate.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?l'?-k?t, IPA(key): /?æl.?.ke?t/
Verb
allocate (third-person singular simple present allocates, present participle allocating, simple past and past participle allocated)
- To set aside for a purpose.
- To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
- The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools.
- (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
Synonyms
- (set aside for a purpose): appropriate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Antonyms
- (reserve a section of memory): free, deallocate
Related terms
- allocable
Translations
Italian
Verb
allocate
- second-person plural present indicative of allocare
- second-person plural imperative of allocare
- feminine plural of allocato
Latin
Verb
alloc?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of alloc?
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