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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Metra Qu'en dit Metra (Louis XVI.)? Metra was a noted news-vendor of Paris before the Revolution- a notability with a cocked hat, who went about with his hands folded behind his back. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A pocket implement combining the uses of many instruments, such asthermometer, level, plummet, and lens. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: METRA |
| Non-English Usage: "METRA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Esperanto (metric). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lide z metra (1974) 19 metra vyatar (1986) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Chicago Metra" by Chuck Reynolds Commentary: "Waiting at a Metra train station in CHicago, Il. USA." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "METRA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "METRA" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "METRA": Metra Potential method. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
metra | 2,822 | metra car audio | 12 |
chicago metra | 856 | fire metra | 11 |
metra train | 287 | metra rail.com | 10 |
metra train schedule | 214 | il metra | 10 |
chicago metra train | 140 | metra antenna | 10 |
metra schedule | 138 | illinois metra train | 9 |
metra rail | 128 | island metra rock | 9 |
chicago metra schedule train | 71 | chicago il metra | 9 |
chicago metra schedule | 70 | employment metra | 9 |
electric metra | 55 | metra dash kit | 8 |
illinois metra | 43 | billing metra park | 8 |
chicago metra rail | 28 | metra wiring harness | 8 |
metra station train | 22 | metra railway | 7 |
billing metra | 19 | chicago metra station | 7 |
metra kit | 18 | metra park | 7 |
metra electronics | 16 | bridge fire metra | 7 |
metra railroad | 15 | cta metra | 6 |
chicago in metra train | 13 | metra harness | 6 |
chicago in metra | 12 | chicago metra system | 6 |
metra station | 12 | chicago electric metra | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "METRA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Metra-potentialemetode (Metra Potential method). (various references) | |
Dutch | Metra-Potentiaal Methode (Metra potential method), Metra Potential methode (Metra Potential method). (various references) | |
Finnish | Metra-Potential-menetelmä (Metra Potential method). (various references) | |
French | méthode Metra Potential (Metra Potential method), méthode des potentiels Métra (Metra potential method). (various references) | |
German | Metra-Potential-Methode (Metra Potential method), Metra Potential-Methode (Metra potential method). (various references) | |
Greek | μέθοδος Μονάδων Δυναμικών (Metra Potential method). (various references) | |
Italian | metodo MPM (Metra Potential method). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etramay.(various references) | |
Swedish | Metra-potentialmetod (Metra Potential method). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Staqmion mega kai mikron kai metra dissa akaqarta enwpion kuriou kai amfotera |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Pondus et pondus mensura et mensura utrumque abominabile est apud Deum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Peis and peis, mesure and mesure, either is abhominable anent God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 10 |
| Croatian | Dvojaki utezi i dvojaka mjera mrski su Jahvi podjednako. |
| Danish | To Slags Vægt og to Slags Mål, begge Dele er HERREN en Gru. |
| Dutch | Tweeerlei weegsteen, tweeerlei efa is den HEERE een gruwel, ja die beide. |
| Finnish | Kahtalainen paino ja kahtalainen mitta - molemmat ovat Herralle kauhistus. |
| French | Deux sortes de poids, deux sortes d`épha, Sont l`un et l`autre en abomination à l`Éternel. |
| German | Mancherlei Gewicht und Maß ist beides Greuel dem HERRN. |
| Hungarian | A kétféle font és a kétféle mérték, útálatos az Úrnál egyaránt mind a kettõ. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Timbangan dan ukuran yang curang tidak disenangi TUHAN. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa dua macam batu timbangan dan dua macam takaran, keduanya itu sama kebencian kepada Tuhan. |
| Italian | Doppio peso e doppia misura sono due cose in abominio al Signore. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko nga pauna huhua, ko nga mehua huhua, he rite tahi taua rua, he mea whakarihariha anake ki a Ihowa. |
| Norwegian | To slags vektstener og to slags mål - begge deler er en vederstyggelighet for Herren. |
| Portuguese | O peso fraudulento e a medida falsa são abominação ao Senhor, tanto uma como outra coisa. |
| Rumanian | Douq feluri de greutqyi wi douq feluri de mqsuri, sknt o sckrbq knaintea Domnului. - |
| Russian | оЕПДЙОБЛПЧЩЕ ЧЕУЩ, ОЕПДЙОБЛПЧБС НЕТБ, ФП Й ДТХЗПЕ--НЕТЪПУФШ РТЕД зПУРПДПН. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "METRA": diametral, phenmetrazine, phenmetrazines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: armet, mater, ramet, tamer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: mare, mart, mate, meat, meta, rate, ream, tame, tare, team, tear, term, tram. | |
-2 letters: are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, mae, mar, mat, met, ram, rat, rem, ret, tae, tam, tar, tea. | |
-3 letters: ae, am, ar, at, em, er, et, ma, me, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: armets, armlet, dreamt, imaret, market, marted, marten, master, maters, matres, matter, mature, ramate, ramets, ramjet, remate, reteam, stream, tamers, tamper, tramel. | |
+2 letters: airtime, amateur, amirate, ammeter, amreeta, armlets, armrest, bromate, cremate, emerita, emirate, erratum, extrema, fermata, fermate, formate, garment, hamster, imarets, lambert, lamster, maestri, maestro, maltier, margent, markets, marlite, marmite, martens, martlet, masters, mastery, matcher, matters, mattery, matured, maturer, matures, meatier, meerkat, metamer, migrate, minaret, misrate, muriate, primate, ragtime, raiment, ramenta, ramjets, readmit, regmata, rematch, remated, remates, remnant, restamp, reteams, sarment, smarted, smarten, smarter, smartie, smatter, stammer, stamper, steamer, streams, streamy, strumae, tampers, tearoom, tempera, templar, tempura, teraohm, thermae, thermal, tonearm, tramell, tramels, trammed, trammel, tramped, tramper, trample, trumeau, varment, vitamer, warmest, wartime. | |
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