English words starting with mete

Meanings of Mete:

verb

Dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.

Usage examples:

Punishments meted out to soldiers who violated army regulations

noun

A boundary or boundary stone.

Usage examples:

In my opinion any part of a building which is defined by metes and bounds is ‘premises’ in respect …

phrasal verb

To give or order a punishment

Usage examples:

The prison sentence is the toughest meted out to any of the seven athletes who have pleaded guilty.

Meanings of Mete-out:

phrasal verb

To give or order a punishment

Usage examples:

The prison sentence is the toughest meted out to any of the seven athletes who have pleaded guilty.

Meanings of Mete-out-to:

phrasal verb

To give or order a punishment

Usage examples:

The prison sentence is the toughest meted out to any of the seven athletes who have pleaded guilty.

Meanings of Meted:

verb

Dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.

Usage examples:

Punishments meted out to soldiers who violated army regulations

noun

A boundary or boundary stone.

Usage examples:

In my opinion any part of a building which is defined by metes and bounds is ‘premises’ in respect …

phrasal verb

To give or order a punishment

Usage examples:

The prison sentence is the toughest meted out to any of the seven athletes who have pleaded guilty.

Meanings of Metel:

noun

More fully "nut metel", "metel nut", "nut of metel". a poisonous fruit or seed with narcotic properties, variously identified with nux vomica (the fruit of strychnos nux-vomica) or with the fruit of a species of thorn apple (genus datura).

Meanings of Metempiric:

adjective

Relating to matters beyond the range of empirical knowledge, metaphysical; (occasionally) affirming the validity of concepts or beliefs not based on experience.

Meanings of Metempirical:

adjective

Relating to matters beyond the range of empirical knowledge, metaphysical; (occasionally) affirming the validity of concepts or beliefs not based on experience.

Meanings of Metempsychose:

verb

To transfer (a soul) from one body to another; to cause to undergo metempsychosis.

Meanings of Metempsychoses:

noun

The supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species.

Usage examples:

Like eliot he has an interest in metempsychosis

Meanings of Metempsychosic:

adjective

Relating to metempsychosis; characterized by belief in metempsychosis.

Meanings of Metempsychosis:

noun

The supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species.

Usage examples:

Like eliot he has an interest in metempsychosis

Meanings of Metencephalic:

adjective

Of or relating to the metencephalon.

Meanings of Metencephalon:

noun

The anterior division of the rhombencephalon (hindbrain) in the vertebrate embryo.

Meanings of Metencephalons:

noun

The anterior division of the rhombencephalon (hindbrain) in the vertebrate embryo.

Meanings of Metensomatosis:

noun

Metempsychosis, reincarnation.

Meanings of Metenteron:

noun

The gut of the embryo, developing from the archenteron; (later) specifically the embryonic hindgut.

Meanings of Meteor:

noun

A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light.

Usage examples:

Whitehead thinks that the meteor entered the earth's atmosphere at a low angle.

Meanings of Meteoric:

adjective

Relating to meteors or meteorites.

Usage examples:

Meteoric iron

Meanings of Meteorism:

noun

Distension of the abdomen, especially by gas in the gastrointestinal tract or peritoneal cavity. compare "tympanites", "tympany".

Meanings of Meteorist:

noun

An expert in or student of atmospheric (or more generally: astronomical) phenomena.

Meanings of Meteoristic:

adjective

Affected by meteorism.

Meanings of Meteorite:

noun

A piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space as a meteor. over 90 per cent of meteorites are of rock while the remainder consist wholly or partly of iron and nickel.

Usage examples:

It has been identified in carbonaceous achondrite and iron meteorites.

Meanings of Meteorites:

noun

A piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space as a meteor. over 90 per cent of meteorites are of rock while the remainder consist wholly or partly of iron and nickel.

Usage examples:

It has been identified in carbonaceous achondrite and iron meteorites.

Meanings of Meteoritical:

adjective

Meteoritic.

Meanings of Meteoritics:

noun

The branch of science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.