metre

[US]/'miːtə/
[UK]/ˈmitɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. meter; a unit of length equal to 100 centimeters; a poetic rhythm
Word Forms
Pluralmetres

Phrases & Collocations

per metre

square metre

cubic metre

Example Sentences

He is a metre nothing.

a 550-metre relay race.

a 400 metres runner.

the 100 metres sprint.

a pipe 20 metres in length

He stands one metre and eighty.

The corridor is 2 metres in the clear.

A gradient of 1 in 4 is a rise of fall of one metre for every four metres forward.

The garden is 30 metres long and 20 metres wide.

The bird has a 1-metre wingspan.

mounds some 30 metres across.

she blazed to a gold medal in the 200-metre sprint.

coverage is 6.5 square metres per litre.

15 billion cubic metres of water.

the cliff drops ninety metres to the valley below.

I won the 200 metres in the school sports.

The river is 50 metres across.

50 metres below sea level

The room measures five metres across.

One thousand metres go to the kilometre.

Real-world Examples

Well, our stand is fifteen square metres.

Source: BEC Preliminary Listening Test Papers (Volume 2)

You go another 50 metres and you see this...

Source: How to learn any language in six months? (Audio version)

The mountain tops reach up to eight thousand metres.

Source: Global Slow English

Or rather ten metres under the surface.

Source: BBC documentary "The Mystery of the Moon"

25.what is draft? Maximum draft 17 metres.

Source: Maritime English listening

Many areas of the islands sit just a metre above sea-level.

Source: Global Slow English

'It is just over a metre high.'

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

What's left is the 70,000 square metres of buildings on the two islands.

Source: CCTV Observations

You do it about ten metres a second which puts it into Olympic sprinter territory.

Source: BBC documentary "Chinese New Year"

26.what is air draft? Air draft 20 metres.

Source: Maritime English listening

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