meet
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
meet (meets, present participle meeting; past and past participle met)
- To make contact (with) while in proximity.
To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. - Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock. Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom?
- To get acquainted with someone.
- I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
- I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0105 ↗:
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- (Ireland) To French kiss someone.
- (Of groups) To come together.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- To come together in conflict.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:12.55?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter lv], in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Weapons more violent, when next we meet,
May serve to better us and worse our foes.
- (sports) To play a match.
- England and Holland will meet in the final.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0105 ↗:
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report
- In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet.
- 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (
please specify ), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019 ↗:
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- French: rencontrer
- German: treffen, begegnen
- Italian: incontrare
- Portuguese: encontrar
- Russian: встреча́ть
- Spanish: encontrar, encontrarse con
- French: se retrouver, se rejoindre, se donner rendez-vous
- German: treffen
- Italian: incontrare
- Portuguese: encontrar
- Russian: встреча́ть
- Spanish: encontrarse, quedar
- French: rencontrer, faire la connaissance de
- German: kennen lernen
- Italian: conoscere
- Portuguese: conhecer
- Russian: знако́миться
- Spanish: conocer
- French: se rejoindre
- German: treffen
- Italian: incontrarsi
- Portuguese: encontrar
- Russian: сходи́ться
- Spanish: encontrarse
- French: se réunir, se rencontrer
- German: treffen
- Italian: riunire
- Portuguese: reunir
- Russian: встреча́ться
- Spanish: reunir
- French: satisfaire, (cost) prendre en charge
- German: entsprechen, gerechtwerden, nachkommen
- Italian: ottemperare, conformarsi, soddisfare
- Portuguese: satisfazer
- Russian: отвеча́ть
- Spanish: llenar, satisfacer, cumplir con
- French: (s')affronter, se rencontrer
- German: aufeinandertreffen, zusammenstoßen
- Russian: ста́лкиваться
- French: (se) rencontrer, (s')affronter
- German: treffen
- French: rencontrer
- Russian: встреча́ться
meet (plural meets)
- A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
- A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- (informal) A meeting.
- OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- (Irish) An act of French kissing someone.
meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)
- (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, sc. 1:
- It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place, / To be produced—as, if I stay, I shall— / Against the Moor ...
- 1611, King James Version}, Exodus 8:26:
- And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, sc. 1:
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