meet

UK /miːt/ US /mit/
verb 5noun 5adj 2

Definitions

verb

1

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[…]

2

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.

3

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!

4

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.

5

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

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.

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

5

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

adj

1

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.

2

Submissive; passive.

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