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Meet

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo make contact (with someone) 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?; Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.; 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!; José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria."
2.VerbTo come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
"Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?"
3.VerbTo come face to face with someone by arrangement.
"Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock."
4.VerbTo 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!; José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria."
5.VerbTo 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.; England and Holland will meet in the final."
6.VerbTo 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."
7.VerbTo come together in conflict.
8.VerbTo play a match.
"England and Holland will meet in the final."
9.VerbTo make physical or perceptual contact. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
"The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.; The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.; The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.; He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go."
10.VerbTo converge and finally touch or intersect.
"The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away."
11.VerbTo touch or hit something while moving.
"The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent."
12.VerbTo 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."
13.VerbTo respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
"He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go."
14.VerbTo satisfy; to comply with.
"This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs."
15.VerbTo balance or come out correct.
16.VerbTo 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."
17.VerbTo be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
18.NounA sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
"track meet; swim meet"
19.NounA gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
20.NounA meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
21.NounA meeting.
"OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him."
22.NounThe greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
23.AdjectiveSuitable; right; proper.
24.AdjectiveSubmissive; passive.
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