To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).
To measure with a metering device.
The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds.
A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
The overall rhythm of a song or poem; particularly, the number of beats in a measure or syllables in a line.
To print with a stencil.
A two-ply master sheet for use with a mimeograph.
A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet.
A pattern produced using such a utensil.