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Met

//mɛt// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The London Underground Metropolitan line. London
  2. 2
    The Metropolitan Railway. London, historical
  3. 3
    The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS). London

    "The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over its handling of the investigation. […] The Met said it had informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards and a "mandatory referral will be made to the IOPC in relation to the initial contact from the woman's friend"."

  4. 4
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. US

    "Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy."

  5. 5
    The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company. New-York
Noun
  1. 1
    A Metropolitan line train. London, informal
  2. 2
    Initialism of metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  3. 3
    A player for the New York Mets.
  4. 4
    Abbreviation of methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    Abbreviation of methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    The gene symbol for C-Met, a proto-oncogene in human biology. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    Initialism of mesenchymal–epithelial transition. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 8
    Initialism of motivational enhancement therapy, used in treatment of drug abuse and mental illness to help people in denial accept treatment. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. 9
    Initialism of muscle energy technique, a neuromuscular protocol used in osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage therapy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 10
    Initialism of Mission Elapsed Time. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  6. 11
    Initialism of Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled handcart used on the Apollo 14 manned mission to the Moon. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of meet form-of, participle, past
  2. 2
    simple past and past participle of mete (to measure) form-of, obsolete, participle, past

    "Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground, With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;"

  3. 3
    To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream. impersonal, no-past-participle, no-present-participle, obsolete

    "All night me met eke that I was at Kirke."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).

Etymology 2

Clipping of metropolitan.

Etymology 3

Clipping of metropolitan.

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