Word: meet Part of Speech: verb 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. Pronunciation: /miːt/, /mit/ 1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. Example: Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today? Example: Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…] 2. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. Example: Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock. Example: With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze. 3. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. Example: I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine. Example: 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! 4. To come together. Example: I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations. Example: 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. 5. To come together. Example: Sir said Epynegrys is þᵗ the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy for here is for me And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan Example: Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. 6. To come together. Example: England and Holland will meet in the final. 7. To make physical or perceptual contact. Example: The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away. Example: 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 8. To make physical or perceptual contact. Example: The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent. 9. To make physical or perceptual contact. Example: The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast. 10. To make physical or perceptual contact. Labels: transitive Example: Carrados knew quite enough of flint implements—as indeed he seemed to know enough of any subject beneath the sun—to be able to talk on level terms with an expert, and he was quite equal to meeting a reference to Evans or to Nadaillac with another. Example: He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go. 11. To satisfy; to comply with. Example: This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs. Example: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today. 12. To balance or come out correct. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. 13. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer. Example: The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate. Example: Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. 14. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of. Example: ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’