meet

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UK /miːt/ US /mit/

verb 5noun 5adj 2

Collocations

(verb.) come together

ADV

first

We first met at a coffee shop near my university three years ago.

regularly | never

My friends and I met up at the coffee shop on Saturday morning.

VERB + MEET

arrange to

chance to, happen to

I happened to meet my old teacher at the supermarket last week.

PREP

for

We agreed to meet for coffee at the café near the station.

with

The doctor will meet with the patient to discuss the test results tomorrow.

PHRASES

look forward to meeting sb

I'm really looking forward to meeting your family at the wedding next month.

nice/pleased to meet you

(verb.) satisfy sth

ADV

head-on

When problems arise, it's better to meet them head-on rather than avoid them.

VERB + MEET

be able to, can

be unable to, fail to

The company was unable to meet the deadline for the new product launch.

be designed to, be tailored to

This new software was tailored to meet the specific requirements of small businesses.

(verb.) sb's eyes/gaze/look

ADV

levelly, squarely, unflinchingly, without flinching

She met his angry stare squarely, refusing to look away or show any fear.

fleetingly | challengingly, determinedly

PREP

~ across

She noticed him when their glances met across the busy café this morning.

Definitions

verb

To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?

Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…]

To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.

With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.

To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

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.

I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.

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, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

To come together.

Sir said Epynegrys is þᵗ the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy for here is for me And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan

Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.

noun

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.

You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.

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

adj

Suitable; right; proper.

It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […]

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.

Submissive; passive.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle

verb — fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restrict

verb — be in direct physical contact with

verb — come together

verb — undergo or suffer

suffer

verb — collect in one place

gather
assemble
forgather
foregather

verb — be adjacent or come together

converge

verb — experience as a reaction

adjective — being precisely fitting and right

fitting

Antonyms

diverge

Idioms & Phrases

make ends meet

To have enough money to cover expenses; to get by financially; to get through the pay period (sufficient to meet the next payday).

... a schoolmaster, whose income being small, he was fain to keep a glass of good liquor for the entertainment of passengers, by which he made shift to make the two ends of the yea

pleased to meet you

A polite formula used when being introduced to somebody.

meet one's maker

To die or to pass into the afterlife.

On the gallows high he has met his Maker...Your victim waits for you to meet your Maker

nice to meet you

A polite expression used when the speaker is first introduced to someone.

Nice to meet you! — You too, Bye.

meet halfway

To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation.

Nelse's ability to act humanely toward those who have previously wronged him suggests that reconciliation between whites and blacks is possible if both are willing to meet halfway.

Example Bank

Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?

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Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…]

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Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.

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track meet

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swim meet

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Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. 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 sw

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, meet is marked as informal, archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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