Dictionary Definition
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English
Pronunciation
- /miːt/
- /mi:t/
- Rhymes with: -iːt
Etymology 1
From lang=fro, from meta.Noun
- A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker.
Etymology 2
metan, from Germanic *|meta-, from Indo-European *|med-. Cognate with Dutch meten, German messen, Swedish mäta; and (from Indo-European) with Greek sc=Grek, Latin metiri.Verb
- transitive poetic To
measure.
- 1611 —
King James Version of the Bible,
Matthew 7:2
- For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- 1611 —
King James Version of the Bible,
Matthew 7:2
- To dispense,
measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
- 1833 — Alfred
Tennyson, Ulysses
- Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
- Unequal laws unto a savage race
- Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
- 1833 — Alfred
Tennyson, Ulysses
Translations
To measure
- Finnish: mitata
- Kurdish: pîvan
To dispense
- Finnish: jakaa
- Kurdish: siza dan, ceza kirin
Italian
Noun
mete- Plural of meta
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English "mēte" Note: The oldest root according to multiple sources is the Old English. However, there the Indo-European Root mē- has multiple entries and variants. For an online reference check Bartleby.com's list of Indo-European Rootshttp://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE299.html (Note: Begin there but use the navigation link on their site to explore the next four entries for the root word).Noun
mēte Middle English alternative spelling of mēte: met, methe, meate, meit(e, mette, meitte, mate & (early) mæte, (sg. gen. mætes), Pl. mtes & mten.)- meat
- food
- dream
- equal
- boundary, target, point, position
Verb
mēte Middle English alternative spelling of mēte: meten, meete- to dream
- to meet, come together
Adjective
mēte Middle English alternative spelling of mēte: meete- suitable, fitting, appropriate
- pleasing, also accommodating and useful
- right shape or size, well-fitting
Adverb
mēte- appropriately
- copiously
For Usage Examples of All Forms
Please consult resources such as The Middle English Dictionary (M.E.D.)http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/med_ent_search.html as an online resource. Also The Riverside Chaucerhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/Riverside-Chaucer/Geoffrey-Chaucer/e/9780395290316/?itm=1 contains the complete works of Chaucer, has nearly all of the variant meanings used and to make the word easier to locate the book contains a glossary in the back broken up by meaning followed by its precise location in the text.--C.
Foodman 03:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Old English
Etymology
Common Germanic *|matizNoun
Extensive Definition
After graduating from the Ankara Science High
School (Ankara
Fen Lisesi), he started his university education at the
Middle East Technical University in Ankara, later transferred
to
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul in
1977. He
received a B.Sc.
in mathematics and
another in electrical
engineering simultaneously in 1981, both in
first-rank. Soner then attended Brown
University in Providence,
RI,
U.S. on a
research fellowship,
where he obtained his M.Sc.
(1983) and
Ph.D.
(1986) in
applied
mathematics.
In 1985, Soner was
research
associate at the Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences
in Minneapolis,
MN and,
assistant
professor and then professor between 1986-1998 in
the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
PA.
During 1997-1998 he was Research Associate at the
Feza Gursey Institute for Basic Sciences in Istanbul and
visiting
professor of Mathematics at the Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
and the University
of Paris, Paris, France. From
1998 for two
years, Soner was “Paul M. Whythes `55” Professor of Finance and
Engineering in the Department of Operations Research and Financial
Engineering at Princeton
University.
He is currently the Isik Inselbag Professor of
Finance in Sabanci
University.
Soner co-authored a book, with Wendell
Fleming, on viscosity
solutions and stochastic
control; Controlled
Markov Processes and Viscosity Solutions (Springer-Verlag) in
1993, which
was listed among the most-cited articles on computer
science by Thomson
Science in 2004. He authored or
co-authored papers on
nonlinear partial differential equations, viscosity solutions,
stochastic optimal control and mathematical
finance.
He is elected to the
Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), in December 2001, and received the
TÜBITAK-TWAS Science award in 2002.
Soner’s current research interests are nonlinear
partial differential equations; asymptotic
analysis of
Ginzburg-Landau type systems, viscosity solutions, and
mathematical finance.
He is married to Serpil. They have a son Mehmet
Ali.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accord,
administer, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assign, award, bestow, bestow on, calculate, calibrate, caliper, check a parameter,
communicate,
compute, confer, deal, deal out, dial, disburse, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, dole, dole out, donate, estimate, evaluate, extend, fathom, fork out, gauge, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out,
graduate, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, measure, measure out, mensurate, mete out, meter, offer, pace, parcel out, pass around, pass
out, pay out, plumb,
portion out, pour, present, prize, probe, proffer, quantify, quantize, rain, rate, render, serve, share out, shell out,
shower, size, size up, slip, snow, sound, span, spoon out, step, survey, take a reading, tender, triangulate, valuate, value, vouchsafe, weigh, yield