Meter
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To measure with a metering device.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: (always meter) A device that measures things. A parking meter. (elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second. an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure. The rhythm pattern in a poem.
Example sentence: I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
Metre
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités). It is equal to (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To measure with a metering device.To put into metrical form.