Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boundary line; a limit.
- transitive verb To distribute or allot. Often used with out.
- transitive verb Archaic To measure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To paint.
- To dream: often used impersonally: as, me mette, I dreamed.
- Hence To lose the use of one's senses; be out of one's mind.
- To dream.
- To ascertain the quantity, dimensions, extent, or capacity of, by comparison with a standard; measure.
- To distribute or apportion by measure; measure or deal (out); dole.
- To be a measure of; serve for determining or expressing the extent, quantity, or capacity of.
- To take measure or line; aim.
- noun Measure.
- noun Computation; estimate; measure.
- noun Limitation; limit: in the phrase metes and bounds (rarely in the singular mete and bound).
- An obsolete form of
meet . - noun An abbreviation of
Metallurgical Engineer . - An obsolete form of
meet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.
- intransitive verb obsolete To measure.
- verb obsolete To dream; also impersonally.
- noun Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase
metes and bounds . - verb obsolete To meet.
- noun obsolete Meat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker;mere . - verb transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal To
measure . - verb transitive, usually with “out” To
dispense ,measure (out),allot (especiallypunishment , reward etc.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a line that indicates a boundary
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And than seyde Halaon, Thou were as a god of the Sarazines: and it is convenyent to a god, to ete no mete, that is mortalle; and therfore thou schalt not ete, but precyous stones, riche perles, and tresour, that thou lovest so moche.
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And than seyde Halaon, Thou were as a god of the Sarazines: and it is convenyent to a god, to ete no mete, that is mortalle; and therfore thou schalt not ete, but precyous stones, riche perles, and tresour, that thou lovest so moche.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sarazines: and it is convenyent to a god, to ete no mete, that is mortalle; and therfore thou schalt not ete, but precyous stones, riche perles, and tresour, that thou lovest so moche.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And it has triggered a guessing game over whether the new iPhone is genuine, how it got into the hands of the website and what sort of punishment the highly secretive Apple bosses might mete out to the software engineer apparently responsible for losing it.
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This includes plans to "hand police, local authorities and the courts sweeping powers to mete out severe punishments to those involved in the unrest," and perhaps even crowd-control tactics like water cannons, according to the AP.
Michelle Chen: After the Riots, "Broken" Britain Grows Still More Fractured Michelle Chen 2011
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Professional Journalism has 5 W's, and a How, in every news item in order to mete the measure of professional credibility -- Who What Where When Why, and How.
Kroger comes through for Sam the Tram (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Two Rikers Island correction officers pleaded guilty Friday to assault charges in connection with allowing prisoners to mete out enforcement on their behalf to keep order in the cellblocks they were guarding.
Correction Officers Plead Guilty in Rikers Assaults Sean Gardiner 2011
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While apparently the head of the KKK stands by for the next order, ready to mete out punishment, and smoking a cigar.
Courtroom (Philip Guston) Jerry Ratch 2011
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Goodell's action also acknowledges that no matter how the case was handled by the police and other authorities in Georgia, the strong arm of a serious sports commissioner can right some wrongs and mete out very significant, old school-style punishment.
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This includes plans to "hand police, local authorities and the courts sweeping powers to mete out severe punishments to those involved in the unrest," and perhaps even crowd-control tactics like water cannons, according to the AP.
Michelle Chen: After the Riots, "Broken" Britain Grows Still More Fractured Michelle Chen 2011
bexx commented on the word mete
Mete(n): v., dream
Middle English, now obs.
Cf sweven, dream
March 30, 2007
Rick commented on the word mete
Is there a present context in which 'mete' is used without 'out', as in mete out?
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word mete
No, I'm pretty sure it counts as an amber word.
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word mete
"To dream: often used impersonally: as, me mette, I dreamed.
Hence To lose the use of one's senses; be out of one's mind."
--CD&C
May 12, 2012