meet

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From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijanan (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *mōd-, *mad- (“to come, meet”). Cognate with Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German moten, möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”). Related to moot.

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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 be introduced to someone.
    I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
    pleased to meet you
    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 converge and finally touch or intersect.
    The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
  5. to gather for a formal discussion.
    The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
    I met with them several times.
  6. To satisfy; to comply with.
    This proposal meets my requirements.
    The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
  7. To touch or hit something while moving.
    The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
  8. To adjoin, be physically touching
    The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room.
    The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
  9. To come together in conflict.
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
      And therewythall they spurred their horsys, and mette togydirs so harde that Sir Epynogrys smote downe Sir Dynadan.
  10. (sports) To play a match.
    England and Holland will meet in the final.
  11. To meet face-to-face.
    He went to the café over there, where he met his boss in person.
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In sense 1, meet is sometimes used with the preposition with in American English.

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Terms derived from meet (verb)
[edit] Translations
encounter by accident
see through arrangement
be introduced to
converge and touch
comply
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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)
  6. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone
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  • (greatest lower bound): join
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Terms derived from meet (noun)

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix ge- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

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meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)

  1. suitable; right; proper

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

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From English

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meet c. (plural meten, ??? please provide the diminutive!)

  1. The finish line in a competition

[edit] Etymology 2

See meten.

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meet

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of meten.
  2. imperative of meten.

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meet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of meō
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