meting

• Homophone: meeting

meting

1. present participle and gerund of mete

meting (plural metings)

1. The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out.
   • 1964, William K. Bottorff, Twayne's United States Authors Series, volume 56, page 72:

     We are far more apt to yawn than to weep as we make our way through this series of loosely connected incidents, of unmotivated actions, of contrived metings-out of justice.

From meten +‎ -ing.

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• Hyphenation: me‧ting

meting f (plural metingen, diminutive metinkje n)

1. measurement

• afmeting

meting f (genitive singular metingar, plural metingar)

1. measurement, estimate

• leyslig meting - rough estimate

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.tinɡ/,

From mētan (“to draw, paint”) +‎ -ing.

mēting f

1. picture: drawing, painting
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Midlent Sunday"

     On ōðre wīsan wē sċēawiaþ mētinge and on ōðre wīsan stafas. Ne gǣþ nā māre tō mētinge būtan þæt þū hit ġesēo and herie. Nis nā ġenōg þæt þū stafas sċēawiġe būtan þū hīe ēac rǣde and þæt andġiet understande.

     We look at pictures in one way and letters in another. You don't do anything with a painting except see it and praise it. Looking at letters is not enough unless you also read them and understand the meaning.

• tīefring (“painting”)

• mētan
• mētere (“painter”)

From mētan (“to meet, encounter”) +‎ -ing.

• mētincg, mœ̄ting

mēting f

1. meeting, assembly

• ġemēting
• ġemitting

• Middle English: meting, metynge
  • English: meeting
  • Scots: meting, meiting