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See also:mėėt

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishmeten, fromOld Englishmētan(to meet, find, encounter), fromProto-West Germanic*mōtijan(to meet), fromProto-Germanic*mōtijaną(to meet), fromProto-Indo-European*meh₂d-(to come, meet).

Cognates

Cognate withScotsmet,mete,meit(to meet),North Frisianmete(to meet),West Frisianmette,moetsje(to meet),Dutchontmoeten(to meet),Low Germanmöten(to meet),Danishmøde(to meet),Norwegian Bokmålmøte(to meet),Swedishmöta(to meet),Icelandicmæta(to meet). Related tomoot.

Verb

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meet (third-person singular simple presentmeets,present participlemeeting,simple past and past participlemet)

  1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
    1. To come face to face with byaccident; toencounter.
      Fancymeeting you here! Guess who Imet at the supermarket today?
      • 1899,Hughes Mearns,Antigonish:
        Yesterday, upon the stair
        Imet a man who wasn’t there
        He wasn’t there again today
        I wish, I wish he’d go away []
    2. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
      Let'smeet at the station at 9 o'clock.
    3. To getacquainted with someone.
      I'm pleased tomeet you! I'd like you tomeet a colleague of mine.
      Imet 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!
      • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
        Captain Edward Carlisle[]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, []; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier tomeet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  2. (Of groups)To come together.
    1. Togather for a formal or social discussion; to hold ameeting.
      Imet with them several times. The government ministersmet today to start the negotiations.
      • 1892,Walter Besant, chapter III, inThe Ivory Gate [], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, [],→OCLC:
        At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, whomet every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    2. To come together inconflict.
    3. (sports) Toplay a match.
      England and Holland willmeet in the final.
  3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
    1. Toconverge and finallytouch orintersect.
      The two streetsmeet at a crossroad half a mile away.
      • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
        Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as hemet her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do
    2. Totouch orhit something while moving.
      The right wing of the carmet the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
    3. Toadjoin, be physicallytouching.
      The carpetmeets the wall at this side of the room. The forestmeets the sea along this part of the coast.
    4. (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; torefute.
      Hemet every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
  4. Tosatisfy; tocomply with.
    This proposalmeets my requirements. The company agrees tomeet the cost of any repairs.
    • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page70:
      Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if theymeet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
  5. (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
    • 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons,Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report
      In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figuresmeet.
  6. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
    The eyemet a horrid sight. Hemet his fate.
  7. To bemixed with, to becombined withaspects of.
Usage notes
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In the sense "come face to face with someone by arrangement",meet is sometimes used with the prepositionwith. Nonetheless, some state that as a transitive verb in the context "to come together by chance or arrangement",meet (as inmeet (someone)) does not require a preposition between verb and object; the phrasemeet with (someone) is deemed incorrect. See alsomeet with.

Derived terms
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Terms derived frommeet [verb]
Translations
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to come face to face with by accident; to encounter
to come face to face with someone by arrangement
to get acquainted with
to gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting
to come together in conflict
sport: 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 refuteseerefute
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
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Noun

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meet (pluralmeets)

  1. (sports) Asportscompetition, especially fortrack and field orswimming.
    swimmeet
    • 2009, Alexandria Mangas, Janet Hommel Mangas,Oxygen for the Swimmer, Xulon Press,→ISBN,page91:
      Everyone has to experience their first swimmeet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ (disqualification), and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swimmeet was nerve-wracking.
  2. (hunting) Agathering ofriders,horses andhounds forfoxhunting; afield meet for hunting.
  3. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into asiding to let the other cross.
    Antonym:pass
  4. (informal) Ameeting.
    OK, let's arrange ameet with Tyler and ask him.
    • 2002,George Pelecanos, “Cleaning Up”, inThe Wire, season 1, episode12 (television production):
      You feel me? You use these phones to set up ameet, go to thatmeet… and talk face to face, period.
    • 2004,Matthew Weiner, “Rat Pack”, inThe Sopranos, season 5, episode 2 (television production):
      So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange ameet. I'll feel him out a little bit.
    • 2012 February 23, Joe Kloc, “The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks”, inWired[1],→ISSN:
      Rosen assured Cregger that he had left no paper trail in bringing the rock into the States. Pretending to be reassured, Cregger agreed to a location for ameet: Tuna’s, a small restaurant and margarita bar off West Dixie highway in North Miami Beach.
  5. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in alattice, denoted by the symbol.
    Antonym:join
Derived terms
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Terms derived frommeet [noun]

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishmete,imete, fromOld Englishġemǣte(suitable, having the same measurements), from theProto-Germanic*gamētijaz,*mētiz(reasonable; estimable) (cognate withDutchmeten(measure),Germangemäß(suitable) etc.), itself from collective prefix*ga- +Proto-Indo-European*med-(to measure).

Alternative forms

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Adjective

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meet (comparativemeeter,superlativemeetest)

  1. (archaic)Suitable;right;proper.
  2. (obsolete)Submissive;passive.
Derived terms
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Translations
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(archaic in English) suitable, right; propersee alsosuitable,‎right,‎proper

References

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromLatinmēta.

Noun

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meet f (pluralmeten,diminutivemeetje n)

  1. thefinish line in a competition

Etymology 2

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Verb

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meet

  1. inflection ofmeten:
    1. first/second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

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Finnish

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Verb

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meet

  1. (colloquial or dialectal)second-personsingularpresentindicative ofmennä

Synonyms

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Latin

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Verb

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meet

  1. third-personsingularpresentactivesubjunctive ofmeō

Middle English

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Noun

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meet

  1. Alternative form ofmete(food)

North Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisianmēta, fromProto-West Germanic*mōtijan.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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meet

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) tomeet,encounter

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofmeet (Föhr-Amrum dialect)
infinitive Imeet
infinitive II(tu) meeten
past participlemeet
imperative singularmeet
imperative pluralmeet’m
 presentpast
1st singularmeetmäät
2nd singularmäätstmäätst
3rd singularmäätmäät
pluralmeetmäät
 perfectpluperfect
1st singularhaa meethed meet
2nd singularheest meethedst meet
3rd singularhee meethed meet
pluralhaa meethed meet
 future (skel)future (wel)
1st singularskal meetwal meet
2nd singularskääl meetwääl meet
3rd singularskal meetwal meet
pluralskel meetwel meet
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