The square root of a square meter
The distance between the first line in a hopscotch game and where I would put the top line of the [4, 5] block.
3 1/3 Subway sandwiches
About this long holds palms one meter apart.
take a meter stick, now cut it in half. glue it back together. a meter is probably a little bit longer than this since you lost some material cutting.
The distance light travels when it goes one meter.
about 33 AU's
About twice as long as half of its length
It's about as close as I'm comfortable standing to a stranger
One-half a Darth Vader.
It's more than less than a meter but less than more than a meter.
Same length as a string.
About 2 bushels and a peck.
Around 2 cats long
About 4 stacked house cats, or a bit longer than a 3-year-old.
5.618 Bananas
Take a really long rope and put one end on either pole of the Earth, and the other end on the equator. Use the shortest path, and make sure the rope is tight. No squiggles allowed! Chop that rope into exactly 10 000 000 equal parts. One of them is as long as a meter. Now you just need to find the right one.
Edit: more zeros.
A bit more than 90 centimetres, a bit less than 110. Somewhere in that ballpark.
It is exactly one half of two meters.
About ten minutes, wait, what was the question?
3 feet + a snickers bar
Or if I feel the need to be rude toward a man: 3 feet + your penis
Okay, so, right, okay. Um. In German schools (and probably some other countries...?), many many years ago (possibly still today? or maybe it's all digital now? what am I saying, this is German schools), the blackboard in every classroom was a large, green, rectangular middle part and two square "wings", one on each side (as wings are wont to be...). They can swing in and out, providing extra room for writing on the outer side of the wings. Also for extracurricular shenanigans such as writing "[name] + [name] = SEX" in the middle, swinging the wings closed to hide the writing and then breaking out into hysterics when the teacher opens the blackboard to reveal your incredibly highbrow joke.
This type of blackboard is quintessential to my recollections about and concept of school.
Why am I going into such unnecessary detail about this? I have ADHD and possibly autism, I need you to understand what I'm saying and I can't find any sources of this existing in the English speaking world and I can't find an English word for those "wings" either. I can barely find a German one ("Tafelflügel"? I don't think it's ever come up before in my life).
So here's a picture:
The width/height of the "wings" and the height of the middle part, that's a metre. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
It takes 20s for falling cherry blossom petal to travel.
A bit shorter than a (parking) meter.
Enough thread for 10 to 15 stitches.
The carpet I'm standing on. No, I'm not giving you any pictures.
Gas meter or water meter?
if the meter is dramatic, could be 5 feet.
I think we can agree there are large and short meters. So everyone is right.
approximately 1.06 × 10⁻⁷ nanolightyears
About 0.59 Smoots
One universe across, depending on your frame of reference
It's approximately 100 quarts per square foot.
it's exactly one meter long
Five pounds.
There are 5 meters in one Iambic pentameter, so one meter is 0.2 of those.
Shorter than a dozen football fields
About a yard.
From the tip of your right thumb to your left nipple. Too sensible?
