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.
Yard
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.One's house or home.A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.Any spar carried aloft.A staff, rod or stick.A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK).One-hundred dollars.109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.