meet

Plural: meets

Noun

• a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
• A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
• A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
• A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
• A meeting.
• The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

Verb

Verb Forms: met, meeting, meets

• To come into contact with or be introduced to.
• come together
  • "I'll probably see you at the meeting"
• get together socially or for a specific purpose
• be adjacent or come together
• fill or meet a want or need
• satisfy a condition or restriction
  • "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
• satisfy or fulfill
  • "meet a need"
• collect in one place
• get to know; get acquainted with
• meet by design; be present at the arrival of
  • "Can you meet me at the train station?"
• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
• experience as a reaction
• undergo or suffer
  • "meet a violent death"
• be in direct physical contact with; make contact
• To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
• To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
• To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
• To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
• To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
• To get acquainted with someone.
• To come together.
• To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
• To come together.
• To come together in conflict.
• To come together.
• To play a match.
• To make physical or perceptual contact.
• To converge and finally touch or intersect.
• To make physical or perceptual contact.
• To touch or hit something while moving.
• To make physical or perceptual contact.
• To adjoin, be physically touching.
• To make physical or perceptual contact.
• To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
• To satisfy; to comply with.
• 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 Satellite

• being precisely fitting and right
  • "it is only meet that she should be seated first"

Adj

• Suitable; right; proper.
• Submissive; passive.

Examples

• England and Holland will meet in the final.
• Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
• He hoped his next draw would MEET the perfect letter for his high-scoring word.
• 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!
• I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
• I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
• José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria.
• Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
• OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
• swim meet
• The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
• The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
• The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
• The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
• This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
• track meet

Synonyms

adjoin, assemble, come across, conform to, contact, converge, cope with, encounter, fill, fit, fitting, foregather, forgather, fulfil, fulfill, gather, get together, match, play, receive, run across, run into, satisfy, see, sports meeting, suffer, take on, touch

Antonyms

diverge, join, pass

Anagrams of meet