meet
IPA: mˈit
noun
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (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.
- (informal) A meeting.
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
verb
- To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- (Of groups) To come together.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To come together in conflict.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
adjective
- (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
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Examples of "meet" in Sentences
- The meeting has retarded.
- They convened the meeting.
- The meeting has spontaneity.
- They constrained the meeting.
- They conjoined with the meeting.
- The meeting is normally unattended.
- The meeting of the two is not coincidental.
- The meeting at the meeting consented the proposal.
- They went to an orangutan center and got to meet the animals face to face.
- The Eye of Aeon activates and past and present meet in a meeting of the minds.
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