Measurements have been given in the metric system, and in some instances the English equivalent has also been given.
This I think completely justifies the frequent use of the syncope and synaeresis in metric prose.
I therefore say that, as far as I know, I am myself the very first who, for the last century or more, has discerned the existence of this metric prose.
French and English, which scenes are, like all the prose scenes in our old dramatists, in what I have denominated metric prose; and this could only be caused by the whole scene having been the production of the one mind.
So I think we should read, and not 'displayed' and with the metric accent on 'me.
I have added wind, which also gives energy to the expression, which is tame and feeble, if the metric accent fall on 'ye.
Steevens, without being aware of the metric requirement, made the same addition.
The fact of this prose being metric causes us sometimes to doubt whether a passage should be printed as verse or as prose; and sometimes what is verse in one edition is prose in another.
It is also in favour of this reading that it throws the metric accent on this, thereby adding force.
To which editors have given the preference, not a little, I think, moved by what seemed to them the metric regularity of the last line.
This line cannot be as the poet wrote it, for the metric accents fall on 'be' and 'you.
But it is only prose to the eye; for it is in reality as metrical as what is printed in separate metric lines, consisting of lines of five or six feet, each of two or three syllables, but printed continuously like prose.
This unit of weight has been generally replaced by those of the metric system.
The fanéga is a measure of capacity that was extensively used throughout Spain and the Spanish colonies, and in the Spanish-American republics; but it is now largely superseded by the measures of the metric system.
Guess wrong and we have a metric ton of hardware trying to occupy the same space as another metric ton of matter.
As for weights and measures, the decimal metric system has been adopted.
Avoirdupois is the weight in common use for marketing, while many tables for calculating dietaries are in the metric system.
But they were not convinced, and will probably hold out until England adopts the metric system, on which occasion it is said that they will be prepared to adopt the Greenwich meridian.
After consultation with an official of the Coast Survey, I reached the conclusion that the request had something to do with the International Metric Commission, of which Dr.
But you must admit that certain cetaceans do grow to significant size, since they're said to supply as much as 120 metric tons of oil.
Now then, the Nautilus has a burden of 1,500 metric tons.
Now then, I have supplementary ballast tanks capable of shipping 100 metrictons of water.
The government took over all supplies of breadstuffs and established a weekly ration of four metric pounds per person (about seventy ounces).
The annual average of such importations in the years just preceding the war reached more than five million metric tons, and these importations were virtually all cut off before the end of 1917.
Metric System, the hundredth part of a gramme, or .
This bureau is empowered to construct and preserve the international standards, to distribute copies of the same to the several countries, and also to discuss and initiate measures necessary for the determination of the metric system.
The planet Strett had a mass of approximately seven times ten to the twenty-first metric tons.
Tell Gordon I'm bringing in one hundred twenty thousand two hundred forty-five metric tons of pelleted uranexite.
When screws are cut in accordance with themetric system, it is the usual practice to give the lead of the thread in millimeters, instead of the number of threads per unit of measurement.
To find the change gears for cutting metric threads, when using a lathe having an English lead-screw, first determine the number of threads per inch corresponding to the given lead in millimeters.
Therefore, the following rule can be used to find the change gears for cutting metricpitches with an English lead-screw: Rule.
Those are metric photographs such as Bertillon of Paris takes," he explained.
The metric photograph, I believe, will in time rank with the portrait parle, finger prints, and the rest.
He was pointing to a shadow of a gable on the house as it showed in the metric photographs and the others.
Kennedy quietly, laying down the bundle of metric photographs and the alleged photographs of Travis.
With a topographical plan and a metric photograph one can study a crime as a general studies the map of a strange country.
You could almost use the metric photograph for that.
The print made from the negative is mounted on a card in a space of definite size, along the edges of which a metric scale is printed.
With it, one may count from one to ten and may construct the addition and other tables, and it may constitute the first steps in the study of the decimal and metric system.
I designed an anthropometer provided with the metric scale, varying between .
In this way the inconvenience and waste of time caused by having to move the seat about, is obviated, and also the trouble of having to calculate the difference in the metric scale.
As our local trade with the above and other countries is increasing (unfortunately in some respects), rules for working out the metric measures into English and vice versa may be useful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
