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What does metre mean?
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metre

One metre is a length. It is exactly 100 centimetres long. This table is 2 metres wide.

metre

(= meter) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration (= meter) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse (= meter) the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

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Simple sentences

A metre is 100 centimetres.
The polar caps partially melted and the sea level rose about a metre, so that more than a billion people on coastal areas had to be evacuated.
The words above the door of the theatre were a metre high.
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
The one hundred metre run starts at two in the afternoon.
All trees and shrubs must be trimmed so that their branches are no closer than one metre from a power line.

Movie subtitles

It was the eve of the annual 6-metre yacht races, and, as had been traditional on Long Island for the past 30 years, the Larrabees were giving a party.
A metre and a half down.
Michel Poiccard, 1 metre 79, brown hair, former Air France steward.
A metre.
Metre and a half.
There was over half a metre of concrete.
Oh, a thousand-millionth of a metre.
These conduits are made from two-metre thick duranium composite.
We move, five-metre spread.
We can detect anything in a 100-metre radius.
Let's spread out. 25-metre radius.
Erm, metre of fleeling wire, coaxial.
Computer, three-metre cross-seal.
By now, there's a pile half-a-metre high.
Could you give me about one metre of white ribbon?
Please, make the trousers half a metre longer.
It was the eve of the annual six-metre-yacht races and, as had been traditional for the past 30 years, the Larrabees were giving a party.
A metre and a half down. Understood?
She switched the metre off!
I pay you per metre.
It's too small to be a vessel and only reads about one metre in diameter.
In sports today, the 10,000-metre record set by Arounayev in the 1968 Olympics was broken by a 19-year-old Swede.
A fraction over one metre.
So, the value went up from 300 per square metre to 4000?
Oh, just feeding the parking metre.
He personally somewhat feared a return to a landscape of mountains where the VUE had afflicted him with partial deafness, a loss of balance on any gradient greater than one metre in 200, and pigeon toes that were slowly and appreciably growing whiter.
Once the alignment has taken place, we can narrow it down to the nearest square metre.
She's a metre across the hips, easily.
Time by the metre.
Two of the 5 metre high windows have been exposed.
Will the length of the European metre become variable?
One metre round about the tree.
Achilles one metre and the Tortoise a decimetre.
This converted cubbyhole that passes for your bedroom, this hovel two metres ninety-two long by one metre sixty-three wide, that is to say, a little over five square metres, this attic from which you have not stirred for several hours, for several days.
One rod of Type-3 iridium alloy, one metre in length.
Between these two rooms is a fifteen metre corridor.
A fifteen metre corridor.
We move. Five-metre spread.
From 1 metre?

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