Short meter — Meter Me ter, Metre Me tre, n. [OE. metre, F. m[ e]tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Meter — Me ter, Metre Me tre, n. [OE. metre, F. m[ e]tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Meter (hymn) — A hymn meter or metre indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza of a hymn. This provides a means of marrying the hymn s text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing. Contents 1 Hymn and poetic meter 2 Representation 3… … Wikipedia
Meter — The consistent pattern of accented and unaccented beats, which themselves must occur at consistent time intervals. The strength of metric perception depends upon how regular in time are the phenomenal accents and the qualitative difference… … Historical dictionary of sacred music
short measure — noun see short meter 1 * * * short measure Less than the due and professed amount • • • Main Entry: ↑measure short measure noun Less than the amount promised or paid for • • • Main Entry: ↑short * * * full/short ˈmeasure … Useful english dictionary
Short Beach (Oregon) — Short Beach is a 1,000 meter stretch of beach on the northern Oregon Coast in the United States. It is not named for its length. Locals guess that both the beach and the creek that runs onto it Short Creek, several miles in length were named… … Wikipedia
Meter (poetry) — In poetry, meter (metre in British English) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. The study of… … Wikipedia
Meter (music) — Musical and lyric metre. See also: Hymn meter and Poetic meter. Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry (Scholes 1977; Latham 2002) where it means the number of lines in a verse, the number of… … Wikipedia
Short-Track — Der italienische Shorttrackläufer Yuri Confortola Shorttrackläuferinnen Shorttrack ist eine olympische Sportart und Disziplin des Eislaufs, ausgetragen auf einer 111,12 Meter langen ovalen B … Deutsch Wikipedia
Short Track — Der italienische Shorttrackläufer Yuri Confortola Shorttrackläuferinnen Shorttrack ist eine olympische Sportart und Disziplin des Eislaufs, ausgetragen auf einer 111,12 Meter langen ovalen B … Deutsch Wikipedia