Mete

Verb

 * 1)  To measure.
 * 2) * 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 7:2
 * For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
 * 1) * 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Soothsay, lines 80-83
 * ''the Power that fashions man
 * ''Measured not out thy little span
 * ''For thee to take the meting-rod
 * ''In turn,
 * 1)  To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
 * 2) * 1833 — Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
 * Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
 * Unequal laws unto a savage race

Noun

 * 1) A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

Thesaurus
accord, administer, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assign, award, bestow, bestow on, calculate, calibrate, caliper, check a parameter, communicate, compute, confer, deal, deal out, dial, disburse, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, dole, dole out, donate, estimate, evaluate, extend, fathom, fork out, gauge, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, graduate, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, measure, measure out, mensurate, mete out, meter, offer, pace, parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, plumb, portion out, pour, present, prize, probe, proffer, quantify, quantize, rain, rate, render, serve, share out, shell out, shower, size, size up, slip, snow, sound, span, spoon out, step, survey, take a reading, tender, triangulate, valuate, value, vouchsafe, weigh, yield

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: meat, meet
 * Homophones: meat, meet
 * Homophones: meat, meet
 * Homophones: meat, meet

Etymology 1
From meten:, from  metan:, from, from. Cognate with mete:,  mjitte:, Dutch meten:, German messen:, Swedish mäta:,  modus:,  μεδίμνος:,  μέδεσθαι:,  միտ:.

Etymology 2
From, from mete:, from  meta:, from. Cognate with wullmod ("distaff").

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Kurdish: pîvan


 * Finnish:


 * Kurdish: siza dan, ceza kirin

Anagrams

 * meet, teem

Anagrams

 * meet

Verb

 * 1) put
 * 2) put on

Etymology
From mettre:

Noun
mete



Anagrams

 * teme, temè, temé

Noun

 * 1) food; meat.

Noun

 * 1) boundary, target, point, position.

Adjective

 * 1) suitable, fitting, appropriate.
 * 2) pleasing, accommodating, useful.
 * 3) right in shape or size, well-fitting.

Adverb

 * 1) appropriately
 * 2) copiously

Etymology 1
From mete:. More at.

Etymology 2
From mete:. More at mete.

Etymology 3
From gemæte:. More at.

Noun

 * 1) food

Etymology
From.