I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fed...meter
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Shelton fed the electricity meter .
gas meter
light meter
meter maid
parking meter
postage meter
water meter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cubic
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If conservation measures were adopted, the report said, the forests could cope with 9.2 million cubic meters a year.
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They put an upper limit of 4.6 million cubic meters on annual timber extraction.
square
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The former building firm supervisor has been tending the 200 square meter allotment near his Newton home for the past eight years.
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He added the group is now trying to select the site for the 660, 000 square meter plant.
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Here are more varieties of living creatures crammed into a square meter than anywhere else on the planet.
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That translates into about 2, 800 square meters of arabie land for each person on earth.
■ NOUN
electricity
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He admitted stealing £85 from the electricity meter and burglary involving £10.
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Consumers complained about unaffordable debt repayment settings on both gas and electricity meters .
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Hugh was busy telling the assembled how best to fiddle your electricity meter .
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Their invention was an electricity meter controlled by signals from the power company.
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Mr Pat Roberts for installation of a coin operated electricity meter .
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Read in studio A faulty electricity meter is being blamed for starting a house fire which left six people in hospital.
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The electricity meter caught my eye as I came up.
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You need a special electricity meter for this.
gas
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The gas meter and pipes were only inches away.
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He says that if the fire had melted the gas meter , there would have been an explosion.
parking
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Capital expenditure was switched to current accounts, and parking meters and town halls leased to private companies.
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I took his parking meter space in part-payment for my woman.
reading
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In any event, they are adjusted one way or the other at the next meter reading .
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It may prove useful for load management, but it does not solve the meter reading problem.
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Take a meter reading off an area of grassland and lock in.
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Or it may contain data such as an electricity meter reading .
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The changes for domestic customers with quarterly accounts are effective from the first meter reading after April.
water
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The watchdog sees more purpose in changing demand with domestic water meters .
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As only about 1 percent of households have water meters , there's still little information on how metering works in practice.
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Many customers will have to foot the bill for water meters , which most companies will eventually install.
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The system allows gas, electricity and water meters to be read.
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This period can be reduced if you are allowed to install the water meter yourself.
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Friends of the Earth say water meters are the only answer.
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Friends of the Earth agree; they're calling for the introduction of water meters .
■ VERB
feed
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While feeding the meter I had a sudden blank on whether my meter was in front or behind my car.
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Only when the user has fed coins into the meter does the electricity flow.
install
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Terrassa-based Telecom Valles, which provided 50% of the cash for the project, developed and installed the meter system.
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The City has installed 300 of the meters in West Portal to test their reliability.
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This period can be reduced if you are allowed to install the water meter yourself.
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The customer would need to install a meter capable of recording usage by the hour.
park
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The problem of destruction of, and theft from, parking meters is City wide and costs this authority a great deal.
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The double white stripe is for show, as are the two parking meters .
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BOutside, the valet parkers lean against the parking meters .
read
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Is Big Brother reading your meter ?
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Electricity, gas and water companies have sought many years for a way to read meters without visiting the customer's premises.
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That way, when you had a fire mission, you would read this 400-meter change on your plastic cursor.
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Understand and use simple rates; e.g. £ per hour, miles per gallon. Read meters and dials of various types.
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The utilities also have announced they will read meters every other month and use an estimate between readings.
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Electricity: read meter on arrival and departure - cost is ten pence per unit to cover standing charge as well as unit cost.
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Manville glanced over the driver's shoulder, reading the meter .
use
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Diesel smoke Vehicles with diesel engines will be checked for smoke emission, using smoke meters .
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We never used the meter monitors as the eyes and ears of the police force.
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The company also saw nearly a halving of complaints against it and is hoping to widen the number of people using meters .
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A security officer from a nearby building appeared with a piece of metal which possibly had been used to attack the meter .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gas meter
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the taxi meter
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each time Joe Consumer retrieves a file from a commercial server, the payment meter is ticking.
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Heating is normally charged separately, often by coin meter .
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The City has installed 300 of the meters in West Portal to test their reliability.
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The four Brent and two Ninian meters measure the incoming oil from offshore.
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Their invention was an electricity meter controlled by signals from the power company.
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Token meters are also available from most gas regions.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The gas is metered and they send you a bill every three months.
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They've introduced a system of metering the amount of water used in a household.
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Water use is metered in most Sacramento homes.