{"loaderData":{"0":null,"0-3":[{"type":"fetchPageData/fulfilled","payload":{"_id":"home-legacy","story":{"created_at":"2023-07-04T15:14:18.526Z","published_at":"2024-05-02T04:05:00.000Z","content":{"heroModule":[{"cta":[{"url":"https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/ampersand/","text":"Read more.","target":"_self"}],"article":{"name":"What Are Ampersands and How Do You Use Them?","content":{"topicLabel":"Informal writing"}},"imageUrl":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/featured/hero/what-are-ampersands-and-how-do-you-use-them-20251013.png","description":"We explain the finer points of the ampersand's use — from informal writing to company names.","subjectLabel":"Today"}],"quizModule":[{"cta":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/learn/quizzes","text":"Go to all quizzes","target":"_self"}],"image":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/daily-quiz.png","articleLink":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/quizzes/quiz-yourself-on-anytime-vs-any-time","text":"Take the full quiz.","target":"_self"}],"subjectLabel":"Quiz","wordpressSlug":"quiz-yourself-on-anytime-vs-any-time","questionNumber":"2"}],"xotdModule":[],"gamesModule":[{"gamesList":[{"name":"Daily Crossword","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:24:23.318Z","published_at":"2024-02-07T05:05:00.000Z","id":336141299,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/crossword/","text":"Daily Crossword","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215805,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/daily-crossword.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":""},"slug":"daily-crossword","full_slug":"games/daily-crossword","sort_by_date":null,"position":0,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"013f4974-3fad-4e2b-8aa2-c573ef31f263","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:55.972Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Hurdle","created_at":"2023-07-07T20:42:46.109Z","published_at":"2024-02-06T05:05:00.000Z","id":337835996,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://play.dictionary.com/games/todays-hurdle","text":"Hurdle","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215808,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/hurdle.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/hurdle"},"slug":"hurdle","full_slug":"games/hurdle","sort_by_date":null,"position":-30,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"3342f4e9-9403-4609-a956-7cd5eab50dc9","first_published_at":"2023-07-10T17:24:55.648Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Word Puzzle","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:31:56.964Z","published_at":"2023-07-10T17:24:59.422Z","id":336150578,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/word-puzzle","text":"Word Puzzle","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215807,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/word-puzzle.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false}},"slug":"word-puzzle","full_slug":"games/word-puzzle","sort_by_date":null,"position":-20,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"71792320-7229-4ab6-8558-b3af16f5e557","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:43.933Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Word Wipe","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:28:02.623Z","published_at":"2024-02-06T05:05:00.000Z","id":336141320,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://play.dictionary.com/games/word-wipe","text":"Word Wipe","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215806,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/word-wipe.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/word-wipe"},"slug":"word-wipe","full_slug":"games/word-wipe","sort_by_date":null,"position":-10,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"3789fc63-90b3-4407-99f4-fa263d1a3e39","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:50.947Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true}],"description":"Calling all cruciverbalists! Sharpen your mind with crosswords and word games, or take a brain break with your favorite classic games.","subjectLabel":"Games"}],"commonModule":[],"ribbonModule":[],"trendingModule":[{"articles":[{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/face-in-clouds-emoji/","text":"How Are You Using the Face in Clouds Emoji 😶‍🌫️?"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/white-tie-vs-black-tie/","text":"White Tie vs. Black Tie: Which Is More Formal?"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/pasta-shapes-names/","text":"All the Pasta Shape Names Explained: How Many Do You Know?"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/comfort-character/","text":"Who's Your Comfort Character?"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/whycapitali/","text":"Why Do We Capitalize the Pronoun \"I\"?"}]}}],"subjectLabel":"Trending"}],"newsletterModule":[{"title":"Salutations, logophile!","imageUrl":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/newsletter.png","description":"Sign up to get everything a word lover could want: word origins, fun facts, and the latest language trends.","subjectLabel":"Newsletter"}],"largeRibbonModule":[],"recirculationModule":[{"articles":[{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/news-from-october-11-october-17-2025/","text":"News from October 11–October 17, 2025"}],"topicLabel":"This Week in Words 🌎"}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/name-meanings-in-dictionary/","text":"Is Your Name in the Dictionary?"}],"topicLabel":"Look yourself up"}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.thesaurus.com/e/writing/how-to-write-a-scary-story-tips-to-haunt-your-reader/","text":"How to Write a Scary Story: Tips to Haunt Your Readers"}],"topicLabel":"Writing tips"}}],"subjectLabel":"Featured"}]},"slug":"shared-homepage","full_slug":"homepages/shared-homepage","sort_by_date":null,"position":0,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140983,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"c7ed375b-9129-448c-aeec-9f52e3fef270","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T18:23:43.845Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null}},"meta":{"requestId":"PbKIX102tXBdiJNEoj0RF","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"luna/fetchExampleSentences/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"nlp":[{"id":"6739394-28","sentence":"And other metrics are still mostly on track, including AI, productivity gains, and slowing inflation.","source":{"sourceName":"Barron's","publicationDate":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/stock-market-survives-bank-scare-73eb4419","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Teresa Rivas","title":"The Stock Market Survives a Bank Scare. There’s Too Much Riding on This Bull."},"offsets":[10,17]},{"id":"6739375-10","sentence":"Put simply, when set against other standard metrics like profits, share prices in the US are very high.","source":{"sourceName":"BBC","publicationDate":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq502xl53xqo","abbreviation":"nlp","title":"How nervous are investors about the stock market?"},"offsets":[44,51]},{"id":"6739181-20","sentence":"If everyone’s so desperate to unplug, why are our user-engagement metrics still going up?","source":{"sourceName":"MarketWatch","publicationDate":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/winning-stock-investors-make-money-spotting-trends-early-and-this-one-is-just-starting-acf615d5","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Charlie Garcia","title":"Winning investors make money spotting trends early — and this one is just starting"},"offsets":[66,73]},{"id":"6739181-47","sentence":"Your engagement metrics are up because you’re squeezing more juice from fewer oranges.","source":{"sourceName":"MarketWatch","publicationDate":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/winning-stock-investors-make-money-spotting-trends-early-and-this-one-is-just-starting-acf615d5","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Charlie Garcia","title":"Winning investors make money spotting trends early — and this one is just starting"},"offsets":[16,23]},{"id":"6739181-28","sentence":"You work at a social-media company and you’re telling me your engagement metrics are up.","source":{"sourceName":"MarketWatch","publicationDate":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-10-17T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/winning-stock-investors-make-money-spotting-trends-early-and-this-one-is-just-starting-acf615d5","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Charlie Garcia","title":"Winning investors make money spotting trends early — and this one is just starting"},"offsets":[73,80]}],"tdb":[],"gbg":[]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"metrics"},"requestId":"ZE6xkPcToAmiKnNakLLMa","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchThesaurusRelatedEntries/fulfilled","payload":{"relatedEntries":[{"headword":"prosody","partOfSpeech":"noun","shortDefinition":"versification","slug":"prosody","synonyms":[{"headword":"metrics","slug":"metrics"},{"headword":"poem","slug":"poem"},{"headword":"poetic rhythm","slug":"poetic-rhythm"},{"headword":"poetry","slug":"poetry"}]}],"slug":"metrics"},"meta":{"arg":"metrics","requestId":"p-iASNLlEMFPqKAxmjgDj","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchThesaurusEntry/fulfilled","payload":[{"entries":[{"createDate":"2021-05-09T14:51:35Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"metrics","standardForm":"metrics"},"id":"6097f6f7000000007e00dba8","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2021-05-09T14:51:35Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"metrics","groups":["c","e","i","m","r","s","t"],"numLetters":7,"reverse":"scirtem","subwordTokens":["metrics","etrics","trics","rics","ics","cs","s"]},"normalizedLetter":"m","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"antonyms":[{"entry":{"headword":"prose","id":"6097f7760000000156009a21","slug":"prose"},"similarity":-50}],"crossReferences":[{"targetEntry":{"headword":"prosody","id":"6097f7760000000156009cbb","slug":"prosody"},"targetEntryId":"6097f7760000000156009cc0","type":"as-in"}],"id":"6097f6f7000000007e00dbad","ordinal":1,"shortText":"versification","source":"random-house","synonyms":[{"entry":{"headword":"poem","id":"6097f758000000036300fea6","slug":"poem"},"similarity":50},{"entry":{"headword":"poetry","id":"6097f7580000000363000165","slug":"poetry"},"similarity":50},{"entry":{"headword":"poetic rhythm","id":"6097f7580000000363000130","slug":"poetic-rhythm"},"similarity":10}]}],"id":"6097f6f7bb1f88f7c11d9a13","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun"}],"pronunciationSets":[{"id":"55680bf400000000b100fde1","lang":"en","ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"audio":{"flac":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.flac","mpeg":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.mp3","ogg":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.ogg","wav":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.wav"},"id":"55680bf400000000b100fde2","ipa":{"text":"ˈmɛ trɪks"},"phonetic":{"boldIndices":[0,1],"html":"me-triks","text":"me-triks"}}],"region":"us"}],"slug":"metrics","source":"random-house","subType":"as-in","type":"tcom"}],"type":"tcom"}],"meta":{"arg":"metrics","requestId":"kzhIUgkrWkIpDJV0COW9f","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchDictionaryEntry/fulfilled","payload":[{"entries":[{"createDate":"2010-10-13T04:42:54Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"metrics","standardForm":"metrics"},"id":"4cb538ce4b849faadf569c4f","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2010-10-13T04:42:54Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"metrics","groups":["c","e","i","m","r","s","t"],"numLetters":7,"reverse":"scirtem","subwordTokens":["metrics","etrics","trics","rics","ics","cs","s"]},"normalizedLetter":"m","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"id":"4c83661dfd92fbfaad92bd13","ordinal":1,"tags":[{"tag":"Arts:Literature:Poetry","type":"subject-field"}],"text":"(functioning as singular) prosody the art of using poetic metre"}],"ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun"}],"pronunciationSets":[{"ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"ipa":{"text":"ˈmɛtrɪks"}}]}],"slug":"metrics","source":"collins","type":"british"}],"type":"british"},{"entries":[{"createDate":"2015-05-29T06:49:24Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"metrics","standardForm":"metrics","syllabicForm":"met·rics"},"id":"55680bf400000000b100fddd","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2015-05-29T06:49:24Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"metrics","groups":["c","e","i","m","r","s","t"],"numLetters":7,"reverse":"scirtem","subwordTokens":["metrics","etrics","trics","rics","ics","cs","s"]},"normalizedLetter":"m","ordinal":1,"origin":{"id":"55680bf400000000b100fdf5","source":"dcom","text":"First recorded in 1895–1900; metric ², -ics","type":"origin"},"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"id":"55680bf400000000b100fdec","ordinal":1,"source":"random-house","tags":[{"tag":"Prosody","type":"category"}],"text":"the science of meter."},{"id":"55680bf400000000b100fdf0","ordinal":2,"source":"random-house","tags":[{"tag":"Prosody","type":"category"}],"text":"the art of metrical composition."}],"id":"55680bf400000000b100fde7","label":"(used with a singular verb)","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun","tags":[{"tag":"used_with_a_singular_verb","type":"syntax"}]}],"pronunciationSets":[{"id":"55680bf400000000b100fde1","lang":"en","ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"audio":{"flac":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.flac","mpeg":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.mp3","ogg":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.ogg","wav":"M03/M0373000/M0373000.wav"},"id":"55680bf400000000b100fde2","ipa":{"text":"ˈmɛ trɪks"},"phonetic":{"boldIndices":[0,1],"html":"me-triks","text":"me-triks"}}],"region":"us"}],"slug":"metrics","source":"dcom","type":"dcom"},{"createDate":"2015-05-29T06:49:24Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"-metrics","standardForm":"-metrics","syllabicForm":"-metrics"},"id":"55680bf400000000b100fdfe","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2015-05-29T06:49:24Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":false,"forward":"metrics","groups":["-","c","e","i","m","r","s","t"],"numLetters":7,"reverse":"scirtem","subwordTokens":["-metrics","metrics","etrics","trics","rics","ics","cs","s"]},"normalizedLetter":"0","ordinal":1,"origin":{"id":"55680bf400000000b100fe08","source":"dcom","text":"-metric, -ics","type":"origin"},"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"examples":[{"sentence":"biometrics; econometrics."}],"id":"55680bf400000000b100fe04","ordinal":1,"source":"random-house","text":"a combining form with the meaning “the science of measuring” that specified by the initial element."}],"id":"55680bf400000000b100fe03","ordinal":1}],"slug":"metrics","source":"dcom","type":"dcom"}],"type":"dcom"}],"meta":{"arg":"metrics","requestId":"xZDan9T6lnj7FltsbyN1M","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"fetchSpellSuggestions/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"lunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"metrics","slug":"metrics"},{"displayForm":"-metrics","slug":"metrics"},{"displayForm":"metric","slug":"metric"},{"displayForm":"metrical","slug":"metrical"},{"displayForm":"metritis","slug":"metritis"},{"displayForm":"-metric","slug":"metric"},{"displayForm":"metrify","slug":"metrify"},{"displayForm":"metrist","slug":"metrist"},{"displayForm":"metrize","slug":"metrize"},{"displayForm":"biometrics","slug":"biometrics"},{"displayForm":"geometrics","slug":"geometrics"}],"tunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"metrics","slug":"metrics"},{"displayForm":"metric","slug":"metric"},{"displayForm":"metrical","slug":"metrical"},{"displayForm":"metrist","slug":"metrist"},{"displayForm":"theatrics","slug":"theatrics"},{"displayForm":"detritus","slug":"detritus"},{"displayForm":"meteoric","slug":"meteoric"},{"displayForm":"geriatrics","slug":"geriatrics"},{"displayForm":"meretricious","slug":"meretricious"},{"displayForm":"clerics","slug":"clerics"},{"displayForm":"fabrics","slug":"fabrics"}]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"metrics"},"requestId":"Esqkn7faDeFbKES4qh5A1","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}}]},"actionData":null,"errors":null}

metrics

Example Sentences

Related Words