meet

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Verb

1. 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?
   • Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
   • 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.
2. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
   • Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
3. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
   • Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
4. 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!
   • José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria.
5. 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.
   • England and Holland will meet in the final.
6. 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.
7. To come together in conflict.
8. To play a match.
   • England and Holland will meet in the final.
9. To make physical or perceptual contact. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
   • The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
   • The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
   • The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
   • He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
10. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
    • The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
11. To touch or hit (something) while moving.
    • The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
12. 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.
13. To counter equally; to match. 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.
14. 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.
15. To satisfy; to comply with.
    • This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
16. To balance or come out correct.
17. 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.
18. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Noun

1. A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
   • track meet
   • swim meet
2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
4. A meeting.
   • OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

Adjective

1. Suitable; right; proper.
2. Submissive; passive.

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