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What (who) is mete - definition
TURKISH WRITER
Hesene Mete; Metê
mete
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(metes, meting, meted)
• mete out
To mete out a punishment means to order that someone should be punished in a certain way. (FORMAL)
His father meted out punishment with a slipper.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
mete
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I. v. a.
Measure.
II. n.
Measure, bound, limit, term, boundary, terminus, butt.
Mete
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·noun Meat.
II. Mete ·vi To Measure.
III. Mete ·vt & ·vi To Meet.
IV. Mete ·noun Measure; limit; boundary;
- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.
V. Mete ·vi & ·vt To Dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.
VI. Mete ·adj To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to Measure.
Wikipedia
Hesenê Metê
Hesenê Metê (born 1957) is a prominent Kurdish writer, novelist and translator. He was born in Erxanî near Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey. He has been living in Sweden since the 1980s. He has translated works by Pushkin and Dostoyevski into Kurdish.
Examples of use of mete
1. The military courts rarely mete out harsh punishment.
2. Security Council to mete out over concerns Tehran is secretly seeking atomic bombs.
3. By Yuval Yoaz The court system should mete out harsher sentences for repeat thieves and robbers.
4. The government faced popular pressure to mete out punishment over the scandal.
5. Ultimately, the whole House could vote to mete out punishment, which could include imprisonment.