meter

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A device that measures things.
2. (countable, uncountable)A device that measures things.

   “gas meter”

3. (countable, dated, uncountable)One who metes or measures.

   “a labouring coal-meter”

4. (US, countable, uncountable)A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
5. (US, alt-of, countable, standard, uncountable)US standard spelling of metre (“a unit of measure”).

   “No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.”

6. (US, alt-of, countable, standard, uncountable)US standard spelling of metre (“the rhythm or measure in language”).
7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A poem.

   “A meter of […]berses in the Utopian tongue”

verb

1. To measure with a metering device.
2. To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
3. To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).