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- 1 Suitable; right; proper. archaic
"It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […]"
- 2 Submissive; passive. obsolete
- 1 being precisely fitting and right wordnet
- 1 A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
"track meet"
- 2 a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held wordnet
- 3 A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- 4 A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- 5 A meeting. informal
"OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him."
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- 6 The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- 1 To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.; To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
"Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?"
- 2 contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle wordnet
- 3 To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.; To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
"Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock."
- 4 fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction wordnet
- 5 To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.; To get acquainted with someone.
"I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine."
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- 6 be in direct physical contact with; make contact wordnet
- 7 To come together.; To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
"I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations."
- 8 meet by design; be present at the arrival of wordnet
- 9 To come together.; To come together in conflict.
"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"
- 10 come together wordnet
- 11 To come together.; To play a match.
"England and Holland will meet in the final."
- 12 undergo or suffer wordnet
- 13 To make physical or perceptual contact.; To converge and finally touch or intersect.
"The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away."
- 14 collect in one place wordnet
- 15 To make physical or perceptual contact.; To touch or hit something while moving.
"The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent."
- 16 get together socially or for a specific purpose wordnet
- 17 To make physical or perceptual contact.; 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."
- 18 get to know; get acquainted with wordnet
- 19 To make physical or perceptual contact.; To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute. transitive
"He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go."
- 20 be adjacent or come together wordnet
- 21 To satisfy; to comply with.
"This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs."
- 22 experience as a reaction wordnet
- 23 To balance or come out correct. intransitive
"1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet."
- 24 To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
"The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate."
- 25 To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
"‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’"
Etymology
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”). Cognates Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”). Cognates Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
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