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Meanings of metrical unit in English

Portuguese
pé
Catalan
peu
Spanish
pie

(Prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm.

        pé
        Synonyms
        Examples for "foot"
        Examples for "foot"
        1
        Good friends, good food, and some really good southern heart-pickin', foot-stompin' music.
        Hearts of grey
        2
        For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch.
        Climbing Magazine
        3
        Background: Several methods of débridement of diabetic foot ulcers are currently used.
        Pubmed
        4
        As a result, he almost never set foot in the senate house.
        Julian
        5
        He set on foot many enterprises, some reaching far East, others West.
        Ben-Hur
        1
        (Daktulos means, of course, both Dactyl (name of a metrical foot) and finger.
        The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
        Usage of metrical unit in English
        1
        Can one have metrical units of four syllables?
        The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
        Translations for metrical unit
        Portuguese
        pé
        Spanish
        pie