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mete ¹  (mt)

tr.v. met·ed, met·ing, metes

1. To distribute by or as if by measure; allot: mete out justice.

2. Archaic To measure.

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[Middle English meten, from Old English metan; see med- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mete - a line that indicates a boundary     border, borderline, boundary line, delimitation boundary, bounds, bound - the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something circumference, circuit - the boundary line encompassing an area or object; "he had walked the full circumference of his land"; "a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe" fence line - a boundary line created by a fence property line - the boundary line between two pieces of property state boundary, state line - the boundary between two states

Translations

mete [miːt]: to mete out vt fus [+ punishment] → imponer

mete [miːt] to mete out vt fus → infliger

mete [miːt]: to mete out vt fus → infliggere