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meet

Pronunciation: /miːt/

The English word “meet” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
To get acquainted with someone.
To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
To come together in conflict.
To play a match.
To converge and finally touch or intersect.
To touch or hit something while moving.
To adjoin, be physically touching.
To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
To satisfy; to comply with.
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.

noun

A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
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.
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

adjective

Suitable; right; proper.

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…

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