meet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mēt
ipa: /miːt/
ipa: /mit/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: meat
homophone: mete
Forms: form: meets
Etymology: From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
Senses: examples: text: track meet
text: swim meet
text: Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ (disqualification), and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swim meet was nerve-wracking.
ref: 2009, Alexandria Mangas, Janet Hommel Mangas, Oxygen for the Swimmer, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 91:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: pass
glosses: A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
examples: text: OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
text: You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
ref: 2002, George Pelecanos, “Cleaning Up”, in The Wire, season 1, episode 12 (television production):
text: So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit.
ref: 2004, Matthew Weiner, “Rat Pack”, in The Sopranos, season 5, episode 2 (television production):
text: Rosen assured Cregger that he had left no paper trail in bringing the rock into the States. Pretending to be reassured, Cregger agreed to a location for a meet: Tuna’s, a small restaurant and margarita bar off West Dixie highway in North Miami Beach.
ref: 2012 February 23, Joe Kloc, “The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: A meeting.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
antonyms: join
glosses: The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: cornfield meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: counter-meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: cute meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: dual meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: e-meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: field meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: fleshmeet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: flying meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: furmeet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: meet cute
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: meet market
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: meet-up
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: meetup
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: prairie meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: premeet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: quad meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: swap meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: swapmeet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: swim meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: track meet
sense: Terms derived from meet [noun]
word: tri-meet