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mete
1[ meet ]
verb (used with object)
- to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out ):
to mete out punishment.
Synonyms: , ,
- Archaic. to measure.
mete
2[ meet ]
noun
- a limiting mark.
- a limit or boundary.
Synonyms:
mete
1/ ³¾¾±Ë³Ù /
verb
- formal.usually foll by out to distribute or allot (something, often unpleasant)
verb
- poetic.(to) measure
mete
2/ ³¾¾±Ë³Ù /
noun
- rare.a mark, limit, or boundary (esp in the phrase metes and bounds )
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ü²Ô·³¾±ð³ÙĻå adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mete1
Origin of mete2
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mete1
Origin of mete2
Example Sentences
This handy online timer tool inspired by said technique will automatically mete out your work sprints and build in breaks.
It might not sound like it from the description, but as these three rather stray individuals intersect, the series metes out comedy and dysfunctional romance with a sure hand.
They started to mete out desegregation orders with teeth, requiring busing if necessary.
But country stations still retain a significant gatekeeping power, elevating favored performers and mediating the genre’s metes and bounds for audiences and the industry at large.
And yet Himes is able to garner sympathy and adulation for these two men who, within the world of Himes’s Harlem, try their best to mete out justice equally under an inherently unjust system.
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