Crossword-Solution: CENTIMETRE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Centimetre | n. | The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CENTIMETRE | anagram | CENTIMETER |
We have 9 clues for the answer “CENTIMETRE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unit of measure. | 9 answers |
| CGS (c.g.s.) unit | 14 answers |
| METRIC length measure | 15 answers |
| MEASURE of length | 24 answers |
| METRIC unit | 31 answers |
| Metric Measure | 31 answers |
| length measure | 31 answers |
| metrical unit | 32 answers |
| Measure | 111 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CENTIMETRE (5)
The heaviest gun of this type is the 10.5 centimetre (4 1/4-inch) quick-firer, throwing a shell weighing nearly forty pounds, with an initial velocity of 2,333 feet per second.
Let it be conceded that they weigh about 500 pounds, which is two-thirds of the weight of the projectile hurled from the Krupp 128-centimetre howitzer.
Save for some such old associations as these, why should it be supposed that matter becomes "spriritualized" as it diminishes in apparent substantiality? Why should matter be pronounced respectable in the inverse ratio of its density or ponderability? Why is a diamond any more chargeable with "grossness" than a cubic centimetre of hydrogen? Obviously such fancies are purely of mythologic parentage.
These limits, Lord Kelvin estimates, are about the one-ten-millionth of a centimetre for the maximum, and the one-one-hundred-millionth of a centimetre for the minimum.
Thus is formed a satin receptacle the rim of which is gradually raised until it becomes a bag about a centimetre deep.
Quotes with CENTIMETRE (3)
... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.
I swiftly discovered that there are few things in DIY (and possibly life) that can't be solved with a large mallet, a bag of ten-centimetre nails and some swearing.
I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I couldn't see that they were anything but normal, because everything else had shifted just one centimetre here and one centimetre there, moving at the speed fingernails grow, until finally everything just clicked into exactly the wrong place.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).