encounter
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sciences
sexuality
sports
Etymology: From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”).
Inflected forms:
form: encounters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encountering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encountered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encountered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: encountre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: incountre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: incounter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: encounters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It fits Ioues ſonne / VVraſtle vvith Lyons, and to tugge vvith Beares, / Grapple vvith Dragons, and incounter VVhales.
H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.
It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
gloss: To confront (someone or something) face to face.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To meet one another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
examples: […] yet when the brother and the sister had encountered, according to the set appointment, none of these impassionedments had been repeated.
gloss: To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Three armies encountered at Waterloo.
Techelles, and the reſt prepare your ſwordes:
I meane to incounter with that Baiazeth.
I will encounter with Andronicus.
gloss: To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.
pos: verb
tags: India
euphemistic
transitive
examples: Speaking to the media, Reddy said, "He (Accused in 6-year-old rape and murder case) should be encountered. We will nab the accused and will encounter him. We will stand by the victim's family. We console them and will provide aid to the family. We will encounter him (the accused)."
gloss: A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
pos: noun
examples: Their encounter was a matter of chance.
That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
As they have planned the encounters, they mostly have control over the time limits.
gloss: A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
pos: noun
gloss: A match between two opposing sides.
pos: noun
examples: Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
gloss: A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
pos: noun
examples: Though Mr. Cosby described the sexual encounter in 2004 as consensual, Ms. Constand said she was too intoxicated to physically or verbally resist.
gloss: The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
pos: noun
gloss: An extrajudicial killing or execution.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: Telangana Labour and Employment Minister Malla Reddy on Tuesday said that the guilty person in the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Hyderabad "will be nabbed and will be killed in an encounter".
Derived words: encounterable
encounterer
misencounter
nonencounter
reencounter
re-encounter
unencountered
close encounter
encounter group
marriage encounter
random encounter
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