meter

Meaning

to put in, insert
to score
to make (noise)
to cram, to stuff, to stick, to shove
(reflexive) to meddle, interfere, to get into
(reflexive) to get into (a small space)
(reflexive) to get into, to get in

put

insert

place

lay

put in

lay down

put down

set

put into

tuck

introduce

poke

shove

thrust

stuff

apply

enclose

put on

stow

slip

crowd

put away

add

administer

append

assign

attach

employ

make use of

paste

practice

put onto

turn to account

use

locate

pass oneself off

pose

position

posture

smuggle

squeeze in

enter

make

score

stick

telescope

cause

connect

copulate

inject

plug in

set into

thread

fill

chip in

inclose

stick in

collect

pull in

crowd together

herd

squeeze

dip

wheel in

roll

roll in

wheel

install

plant

Frequency

Hyphenated as

me‧ter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/meˈteɾ/

Inherited from Old Spanish meter, from Latin mittō (“to send”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *mey-th₂- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with English mess (sense 2) and also mission, message. Compare also French mettre, Friulian meti, Portuguese meter, and Italian mettere. The semantic shift from "send" to "put" probably occurred in Vulgar Latin.