meet.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
Meaning & usage
To 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?
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. To 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!
To 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.
To come together. To come together in conflict.
To come together. To play a match.
England and Holland will meet in the final.
To make physical or perceptual contact. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
To make physical or perceptual contact. To touch or hit something while moving.
The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
To make physical or perceptual contact. To 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.
To make physical or perceptual contact. To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
To satisfy; to comply with.
This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
To balance or come out correct.
To 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.
To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
Where this word comes from
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.
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
track meet
swim meet
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
A meeting.
OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
Where this word comes from
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.
Suitable; right; proper.
Submissive; passive.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
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