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Definition: Parking Meter |
Parking MeterNoun1. A coin-operated timer located next to a parking space; depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Parking Meter |
| Specialty definitions using "parking meter": parking enforcement agent, PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, PARKING-METER SERVICER ♦ SUPERVISOR, PARKING LOT. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park an automobile etc. in a particular place for a limited amount of time. By inserting coins (or credit card, smart money, etc...) into a slot, and turning a handle (or pressing a key...), a timer is set within the meter. A dial or display on the meter indicates how much time is remaining.
Parking meters are usually relatively small boxes attached to the top of a sturdy metal pole. They are exposed to the elements and to vandalss so protection of the device and its cash contents is a priority.
Parking meters are usually seen along the curb of a street, but are sometimes used within parking garages as well. The world's first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on July 16, 1935.
An alternative system is the car park ticket machine.
External Links
The Parking Meter Page
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Parking meter."
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I ate a piece of gum off a parking meter once. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Lyrics | Humpin' on the parking meter, leanin' on the parking meter ("Gloria"; performing artist: Patti Smith) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Steering wheel and dashboard of 1953 Cadillac, with pack of cigarettes and parking meter change.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Galveston, Texas. Hitching post and parking meter.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
parking meter | 85 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "parking meter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kohëmatës parkimi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عداد موقف السيارات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | parkovací hodiny. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pysäköintimittari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | parcomètre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | parkuhr (meter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρκόμετρο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | parkolóóra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parchimetro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percolator, percussion, pergola, personal, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, personality, perspective, purge, purse, purser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | パーキングメーター . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arkingpay etermay luz de estacionamento. (various references) aparat care ponteazã parcarea. (various references) счетчик оплачиваемого времени стоянки автомобилей. (various references) parquímetro. (various references) parkeringsmätare, parkeringsautomat. (various references) parkmetre (park meter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: premarketing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-k-m-n-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: remarketing. | |
-2 letters: antimerger, impregnate, permeating, printmaker. | |
-3 letters: germinate, marketing, prearming, premarket, remarking, repairmen, reparking, repeating, reperking, reteaming, retearing, tampering, tempering. | |
-4 letters: ankerite, antimere, aperient, emigrant, emigrate, geminate, gratinee, imparter, interage, marketer, metering, peregrin, perigean, permeant, petering, pretrain, rearming, regainer, regiment, remaking, remarket, remating, retainer, retaking, retaping, tamperer, tapering, terrapin, tinkerer, tramping. | |
-5 letters: angrier, arenite, armiger, earring, emerita, emirate, emptier, epigean, epigram, etamine, garment, garpike, gatemen, germane, germier, germina, grainer, granite, grantee, granter, grapier, gratine, greaten, greater, gripman, gripmen, impregn, ingrate, integer, karting, keeping, keratin, kernite, mangier, margent, mariner, marking, marring, marting, matinee, meatier, meerkat, meeting, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret, mintage, miterer, negater, painter, parking, parring, partier, parting, partner, peakier, peaking, pearter, peatier, peeking, peering, perinea, perkier, perking, perming, pertain, pigment, pikeman, pikemen, prating, preeing, pregame, premier, prename, preterm, pretrim, primage, primate, prinker, printer, ragtime, raiment, ramekin, rampike, ramping, rangier, ranpike, reagent, reaming, reaping, rearing, reeking, regimen, reginae, regrant, regrate, reimage, reinter, remaker, rentier, repaint, repiner, reprint, retaken, retaker, retinae, retrain, ripener, tamping, tangier, taperer, tarring, teaming, tearier, tearing, teeming, tegmina, tempera, temping, terming, terrain, terrane, terrine, trainee, trainer, tramper, treeing, trepang, trigram, trireme. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-k-m-n-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: premarketings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 6B 69 6E 67 4D 65 74 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001101 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r k i n g   M e t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 006B 0069 006E 0067 004D 0065 0074 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067847775807324771867184 |
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