different between meter vs seter

English

Alternative forms

• metre (Commonwealth English for noun senses 4 to 7, rare for other senses)

Etymology

Borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron, “measure”). Doublet of metron.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mit??/, [?mi??]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mi?t?/
• Rhymes: -i?t?(r)

Noun

meter (plural meters)

1. (always meter) A device that measures things.
2. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

   gas meter (also falls under sense 1)

3. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.

4. (chiefly American spelling, 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. (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
6. (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
7. (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
8. (obsolete) A poem.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Robynson (More's Utopia) to this entry?)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

meter (third-person singular simple present meters, present participle metering, simple past and past participle metered)

1. To measure with a metering device.
2. To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
3. To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).

Translations

Anagrams

• -metre, -treme, Emert, metre, remet, retem

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?.

Verb

meter

1. to put

Danish

Noun

meter c (singular definite meteren, plural indefinite meter)

1. a metre, or meter (US) (SI unit of measurement)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “meter” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?t?r/
• Hyphenation: me?ter
• Rhymes: -e?t?r

Etymology 1

From meten +? -er.

Noun

meter m (plural meters, diminutive metertje n)

1. measurer (person who measures something)
2. meter (device that measures things or indicates a physical quantity)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French mètre.

Noun

meter m (plural meters, diminutive metertje n)

1. meter, metre (unit of distance)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: meter
• ? Indonesian: meter

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch meter, from metrijn, from Latin matr?na.

Noun

meter f (plural meters, diminutive metertje n, masculine peter)

1. godmother

   Synonyms: peettante, petemoei

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese meter, from Latin mitt?, mitt?re (“to send, put”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth?-, *mith?- (“to exchange, remove”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?te?/

Verb

meter (first-person singular present meto, first-person singular preterite metín, past participle metido)

1. (transitive) to put
2. (transitive) to insert
3. (transitive) to bring in
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to meddle, interfere
5. (transitive) to deliver

Conjugation

References

• “meter” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meter” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “meter” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “meter” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?.t?r]
• Hyphenation: mè?têr

Etymology 1

• From Dutch meter, meten, from Middle Dutch m?ten, from Old Dutch metan, from Proto-Germanic *metan?, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
• From Dutch meter, from French mètre, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron, “measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?- (“to measure”).

Doublet of metrum.

Noun

mètêr (first-person possessive meterku, second-person possessive metermu, third-person possessive meternya)

1. meter, a device that measures things.
2. meter, metre, the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch meter, from Middle Dutch meter, from metrijn, from Latin matr?na.

Noun

mètêr (first-person possessive meterku, second-person possessive metermu, third-person possessive meternya)

1. godmother.

Further reading

• “meter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (m?trá).

Noun

meter ?

1. urine

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[1], pages 13-36

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?.

Verb

meter

1. to put, place

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me?.ter/, [?me?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.ter/, [?m??t??r]

Verb

m?ter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of m?tor

Mòcheno

Etymology

From French mètre, from Latin metrum (“a measure”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron).

Noun

meter m (plural meter)

1. meter (unit of measure)

References

• “meter” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

meter m (definite singular meteren, indefinite plural meter, definite plural meterne)

1. a metre, or meter (US) (SI unit of length)

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

meter m (definite singular meteren, indefinite plural meter, definite plural meterane or metrane)

1. a metre, or meter (US) (SI unit of length)

Derived terms

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• metter (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese meter, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt? (“I send, I put”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth?-, *mith?- (“to exchange, remove”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.te(?)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /m??te?/
• Hyphenation: me?ter

Verb

meter (first-person singular present indicative meto, past participle metido)

1. (transitive) to put
2. (transitive) to insert
3. (reflexive) to meddle, interfere
4. (transitive, vulgar) to fuck, screw
5. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of meter
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of meter
7. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of meter
8. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of meter

Conjugation

Related terms

• cometer
• prometer

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meter.

Further reading

• “meter” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “meter” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “meter” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “meter” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “meter” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?meter]

Noun

meter m

1. meter, metre (unit of length)

Further reading

• meter in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Noun

meter m

1. meter, metre (unit of length)

Further reading

• “meter”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish meter, from Latin mitt? (“to send, to put”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *mey-th?- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with English mess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?te?/, [me?t?e?]

Verb

meter (first-person singular present meto, first-person singular preterite metí, past participle metido)

1. to put in, insert
2. (sports) to score

3. to make (noise)
4. to cram, to stuff, to stick, to shove
5. (reflexive) to meddle, interfere, to get into

   Synonyms: inmiscuirse, meter la nariz

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?t?r/

Noun

meter c

1. a metre; the SI-unit
2. (music) Rhythm or measure in verse
3. a meter; a device that measures things.

Usage notes

Indefinite form plural could also be metrar/metrars

Declension

Tatar

Noun

meter

1. meter

Declension

English

Etymology 1

See saeter.

Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. Alternative spelling of saeter
   • 1964, Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, page 114:

     Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.

   • 1968, Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, page 248:

     In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.

   • 2002, Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present, page 131:

     For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
   • 1906, Eduard Suess, The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde), page 479:

     The lowest important terrace, known as Sherbrooke-street terrace, lies at a height of 36-6 meters in the Leda clay; the next, Waterwork terrace, at a height of 67 meters, is excavated in the lower Silurian limestone, and I am not sure whether it should not be regarded as a seter.

   • 2003, The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere ?ISBN, page 227

     As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.

Anagrams

• Ester, Reset, Steer, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, steer, stere, teers, teres, terse, trees

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch ster (“star”), from Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *stern?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??t?r]
• Hyphenation: sê?tèr

Noun

seter or sêtèr

1. (colloquial) star, a star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.

   Synonym: bintang

Further reading

• “seter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

seter n pl

1. indefinite plural of sete

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse setr, sætr.

Noun

seter f (definite singular setra, indefinite plural setrar or setrer, definite plural setrane or setrene)

1. a seter

   Synonym: støl

Alternative forms

• sæter (non-standard since 2012)

Derived terms

Related terms

• sitja (“to sit”).

Etymology 2

Noun

seter f

1. indefinite plural of sete

References

• “seter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Ester, ester, reset, reste, setre, teser, terse