MEET

fitting, meet

(adjective) being precisely fitting and right; “it is only meet that she should be seated first”

meet, sports meeting

(noun) a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

meet, encounter, play, take on

(verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; “Princeton plays Yale this weekend”; “Charlie likes to play Mary”

fit, conform to, meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil

(verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction; “does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?”; “This job doesn’t match my dreams”; “meet a need”

touch, adjoin, meet, contact

(verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact; “The two buildings touch”; “Their hands touched”; “The wire must not contact the metal cover”; “The surfaces contact at this point”

meet

(verb) meet by design; be present at the arrival of; “Can you meet me at the train station?”

meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see

(verb) come together; “I’ll probably see you at the meeting”; “How nice to see you again!”

suffer, meet

(verb) undergo or suffer; “meet a violent death”; “suffer a terrible fate”

meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather

(verb) collect in one place; “We assembled in the church basement”; “Let’s gather in the dining room”

meet, get together

(verb) get together socially or for a specific purpose

meet

(verb) get to know; get acquainted with; “I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!”; “we met in Singapore”

converge, meet

(verb) be adjacent or come together; “The lines converge at this point”

meet, encounter, receive

(verb) experience as a reaction; “My proposal met with much opposition”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)

To make contact (with) while in proximity.

To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

To come face to face with someone by arrangement.

To get acquainted with someone.

(Ireland) To French kiss someone.

(Of groups) To come together.

To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.

To come together in conflict.

(sports) To play a match.

To make physical or perceptual contact.

To converge and finally touch or intersect.

To touch or hit something while moving.

To adjoin, be physically touching.

(transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.

To satisfy; to comply with.

(intransitive) To balance or come out correct.

To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Usage notes

In the sense "come face to face with someone by arrangement", meet is sometimes used with the preposition with.

Noun

meet (plural meets)

A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).

A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.

(rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

(informal) A meeting.

(algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

(Irish) An act of French kissing someone.

Antonyms

• (meeting of two trains): pass

• (greatest lower bound): join

Etymology 2

Adjective

meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)

(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

Anagrams

• Teme, etem, mete, teem, teme

Source: Wiktionary

Meet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Met; p. pr. & vb. n. Meeting.] Etym: [OE. meten, AS. m, fr. m, gem, a meeting; akin to OS. m to meet, Icel. mæta, Goth. gam. See Moot, v. t.]

1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.

2. To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.

3. To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear. His daughter came out to meet him. Judg. xi. 34.

4. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, 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. Pope.

5. To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand. To meet half way, literally, to go half the distance between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect a compromise or reconciliation with.

Meet, v. t.

1. To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle. O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined ! Milton.

2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. Milton.

3. To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December. They . . . appointed a day to meet together. 2. Macc. xiv. 21.

4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite. To meet with. (a) To light upon; to find; to come to; -- often with the sense of unexpectedness. We met with many things worthy of observation. Bacon. (b) To join; to unite in company. Shak. (c) To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss. (d) To encounter; to be subjected to. Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince. Rowe. (e) To obviate. [Obs.] Bacon.

Meet, n.

Definition: An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.

Meet, a. Etym: [OE. mete fitting, moderate, scanty, AS. m moderate; akin to gemet fit, meet, metan to mete, and G. mässig moderate, gemäss fitting. See Mete.]

Definition: Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. It was meet that we should make merry. Luke xv. 32. To be meet with, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]

Meet, adv.

Definition: Meetly. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

MEET

Etymology 1

Verb

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Noun

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Etymology 2

Adjective

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