meet

/miːt/

verb 17
noun 5
adjective 2
forms 10
phrases 6

verb17

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to come near someone by chance, so that each can see the other
- Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
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To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
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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!
To come together.
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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.
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To satisfy; to comply with.
- This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
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To come together in conflict.
- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. — 1667
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To play a match.
- England and Holland will meet in the final.
To make physical or perceptual contact.
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To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
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To touch or hit something while moving.
- The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
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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.
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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.
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To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’ — 1991
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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.
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To balance or come out correct.
- In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet. — 1967

noun5

A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
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(informal) A meeting.
- OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

adjective2

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(no longer used) Suitable; right; proper.
- It seemes not meete, nor wholesome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I stay, I shall,) / Against the Moore. […] — 1603
(no longer used) Submissive; passive.

forms

meeted · met · mettest · ymet · meeting · meeteth · meets · meetest · meeter · meetest

Phrases with meet