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METRIFY
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Irregular inflected form: metrified
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Convert from a non-metric to the metric system
Synonyms:
metricate; metricise; metricize; metrify
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "metrify" is one way to...):
change over; convert (change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Compose in poetic meter
Example:
The bard metrified his poems very precisely
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "metrify" is one way to...):
poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse)
Domain category:
poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))
