meet

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Verb 1.1.2.1 Usage notes 1.1.2.2 Derived terms 1.1.2.3 Translations 1.1.3 Noun 1.1.3.1 Derived terms 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Adjective 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.2 Noun 1.4 References 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 1 2.2.1 Verb 2.3 Etymology 2 2.3.1 Noun 3 Latin 3.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English mētan

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: mēt, IPA: /miːt/, SAMPA: /mi:t/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophones: meat, mete

[edit] Verb

to meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)

1. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

   Guess who I met at the supermarket today?

   Fancy meeting you here!

2. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.

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

   Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom?

3. To converge and finally touch or intersect.

   The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.

4. To satisfy; to comply with.

   This proposal meets my requirements.

[edit] Usage notes

In sense 1 and 2 meet is used with the preposition with in American English.

[edit] Derived terms

• meet-and-greet
• meet-cute
• make ends meet
• meet one's doom
• meet one's maker
• meet up
• meet with

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[edit] Noun

meet (plural meets)

1. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
2. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
3. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)
4. A meeting.

   OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.

5. (algebra) the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol (mnemonic: half an M)

[edit] Derived terms

• cornfield meet (train collision)
• dual meet
• flying meet
• meet cute
• meet-up/meetup
• swim meet
• track meet

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English gemæte (“‘suitable, having the same measurements’”), from the Proto-Germanic *ga-mætijaz (cognate with Dutch meten (“‘measure’”), German gemäß (“‘suitable’”) etc.), itself from collective prefix ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“‘to measure’”)

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: mēt, IPA: /miːt/, SAMPA: /mi:t/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophones: meat, mete

[edit] Adjective

meet (not comparable)

1. suitable; right; proper

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Verb

to meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)

1. (Irish) To French kiss someone

   Would you meet her?

[edit] Noun

meet (plural meets)

1. (Irish) An act of French kissing someone

[edit] References

• “meet” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 [1]

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /met/, SAMPA: /met/

[edit] Etymology 1

See meten.

[edit] Verb

meet

1. Singular indicative of meten. - measure(s)

[edit] Etymology 2

From English

[edit] Noun

meet (plural meten, diminutive meetje, diminutive plural meetjes)

1. The finish line in a competition

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Verb

meet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of meō.