mete
Meaning of mete
verb
- dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.
punishments meted out to soldiers who violated army regulations
Old English metan ‘measure’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meten and German messen ‘to measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin meditari ‘meditate’, Greek medesthai ‘care for’, also by meet2.
noun
a boundary or boundary stone.
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin meta ‘boundary, goal’.
Information about mete
- The plural form of mete is: metes.
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Hyphenation of mete
mete
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- mete is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
mete synonyms
Meaning boundary line:
border, borderline, delimitation
Meaning distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people:
Meaning divide up and share out:
Meaning give a share or a unit of (something) to each of a number of recipients:
Meaning supply or distribute (something) for use or sale:
Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:
Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:
Meaning confer or present (an honour, right, or gift):
Meaning allocate (a job or duty):
Meaning manage and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.):
Translation of mete
- Spanish: medida, infligir
- French: mesure, infliger
- Italian: misura, infliggere
- Portuguese: medida
- German: Maß
Anagrams of mete
EMet, emet, Etem, meet, teem, teme
Words that rhyme with mete
agamete, anisogamete, aplanogamete, coenogamete, gamete, heterogamete, isogamete, macrogamete, megagamete, microgamete, oogamete, planogamete, progamete, zoogamete, BMetE, Admete, Emete, bemete, MMetE, evenmete, unmete, entermete, BSMetE, MSMetE, cosmete, plumete
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