encounter
IPA: ɪnkˈaʊntɝ
noun
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
- (sexuality) A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between people not in a sexual relationship, that usually does not lead to the establishment of a relationship, and may or may not happen again. A sexual encounter could be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is a sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
- (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
verb
- (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- (transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
- (transitive, India) To execute someone extrajudicially.
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Examples of "encounter" in Sentences
- The DC to avoid an encounter is 10+the CR of the location.
- One problem many investors soon encounter is where to keep it.
- * Call 911 immediately if you, your family member or someone you encounter is having a heart attack
- If the purpose of a police encounter is “driving while brown” or “working while brown” or “walking while brown” there is a real problem.
- When Picard pleads with Q to tell them their deadly encounter is just one of his elaborate illusions, Q counters with the ice cold Oh no.
- Last weekend's outing to Tate Modern succeeded in convincing me that the excitement of the encounter is an important part of today's visit to the museum.
- The experience of reading poems and novels does indeed consist of the reader's fully attentive encounter with the text, but that encounter is first of all with the author's aesthetic methods, his/her "making" of the text, in the same way we encounter a painter's execution on the canvas or the composer's shaping of sound.
- While the relegation of tonight's scheduled bout from a title encounter to a non-title affair has to be a disappointment to Sonnen, the fact is that Zuffa (the parent company of both the UFC and the WEC) officials had previously announced that it would be discontinuing the WEC's 185 pound and 205 pound divisions following Dec. 3's
- In light of that a sensible cognitive policy for an individual may be (A) to adopt any new belief we encounter from a prima facie plausible source, so long as it coheres with our present views; but when we encounter a belief that's inconsistent with our present views, (B) to devote cognitive resources to trying to eliminate the troublesome inconsistency, the obvious place to start being the new belief.
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