Meet
WordNet
adjective
(1) Being precisely fitting and right
"It is only meet that she should be seated first"
noun
(2) A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
verb
(3) Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
"Princeton plays Yale this weekend"
"Charlie likes to play Mary"
(4) Fill or meet a want or need
(5) Be in direct physical contact with; make contact
"The two buildings touch"
"Their hands touched"
"The wire must not contact the metal cover"
"The surfaces contact at this point"
(6) Meet by design; be present at the arrival of
"Can you meet me at the train station?"
(7) Come together
"I'll probably see you at the meeting"
"How nice to see you again!"
(8) Undergo or suffer
"Meet a violent death"
"Suffer a terrible fate"
(9) Collect in one place
"We assembled in the church basement"
"Let's gather in the dining room"
(10) Get together socially or for a specific purpose
(11) Satisfy or fulfill
"Meet a need"
"This job doesn't match my dreams"
(12) Get to know; get acquainted with
"I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"
"We met in Singapore"
(13) Satisfy a condition or restriction
"Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
(14) Be adjacent or come together
"The lines converge at this point"
(15) Experience as a reaction
"My proposal met with much opposition"
WiktionaryText
Verb
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
- Fancy meeting you here!
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
- Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom?
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- This proposal meets my requirements.
Usage notes
In sense 1 and 2 meet is used with the preposition with in American English.
Noun
- A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
- A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)
- A meeting.
- OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
- the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol (mnemonic: half an M)
Etymology 2
From , from the (cognate with Dutch , German etc.), itself from collective prefix +
Verb
- to French kiss someone
- Would you meet her?