meet
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: meets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: met
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: met
pos: verb
tags: past
form: meets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
pos: verb
examples: Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
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[…]
gloss: To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
pos: verb
examples: Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
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.
gloss: To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To come together.
pos: verb
examples: I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
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.
gloss: To come together.
pos: verb
examples: 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
Weapons more violent, when next we meet,
May serve to better us and worse our foes.
The dispatches[…] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
gloss: To come together.
pos: verb
examples: England and Holland will meet in the final.
gloss: To make physical or perceptual contact.
pos: verb
examples: The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
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
gloss: To make physical or perceptual contact.
pos: verb
examples: The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
gloss: To make physical or perceptual contact.
pos: verb
examples: The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
gloss: To make physical or perceptual contact.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
gloss: To satisfy; to comply with.
pos: verb
examples: This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
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.
gloss: To balance or come out correct.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
pos: verb
examples: The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,
Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
[…] And all we met was fair and good,
⁠And all was good that Time could bring, […]
gloss: To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
pos: verb
examples: ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’
gloss: A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
pos: noun
examples: track meet
swim meet
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.
gloss: A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
pos: noun
gloss: A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
pos: noun
gloss: A meeting.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
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.
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.
gloss: The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
pos: noun
Derived words: bemeet
boy meets girl
countermeet
counter-meet
hail-fellow-well-met
hail fellow well met
have you met me
make both ends meet
make ends meet
meetable
meet and greet
meet-and-greet
meet a sticky end
meetaversary
meet cute
meet-cute
meetee
meeten
meet halfway
meet me at McDonald's
meet me at McDonald's haircut
meet-meat merger
meet-me room
meet one's doom
meet one's end
meet one's maker
meet one's match
meet one's Waterloo
meet someone where they are
meet up
meet with
mismeet
more than meets the eye
never meet your heroes
never the twain shall meet
nice to meet you
one should never meet one's heroes
pleased to meet you
remeet
the rubber meets the road
until we meet again
watersmeet
well met
when two Sundays meet
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