Verb: metrify 'me-tru,fI
- (poetry) compose in poetic meter
"The bard metrified his poems very precisely"
- Convert from a non-metric to the metric system
"The engineering team had to metrify all the old blueprints";
- metricize, metricise [Brit], metricate
Derived forms: metrifies, metrified, metrifying
Type of: change over, convert, poetise [Brit], poetize, verse, versify
Encyclopedia: Metrify