meet
verbnounadjectivetop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//miːt//
- United States//mit//
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
verb
- 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?
Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…]
- 2
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.
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
- 3
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.
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!
José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria.
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- 4
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.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- 5
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
Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.
The dispatches[…] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
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To come together. To play a match.
England and Holland will meet in the final.
- 7
To make physical or perceptual contact. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do
- 8
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.
- 9
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.
- 10
To make physical or perceptual contact. To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
Carrados knew quite enough of flint implements—as indeed he seemed to know enough of any subject beneath the sun—to be able to talk on level terms with an expert, and he was quite equal to meeting a reference to Evans or to Nadaillac with another.
He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
- 11
To satisfy; to comply with.
This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
- 12
To balance or come out correct.
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.
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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.
Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
[…] And all we met was fair and good, And all was good that Time could bring, […]
- 14
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.
noun
- 1
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
track meet
swim meet
Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ (disqualification), and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swim meet was nerve-wracking.
- 2
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- 3
A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- 4
informalA meeting.
OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit.
Rosen assured Cregger that he had left no paper trail in bringing the rock into the States. Pretending to be reassured, Cregger agreed to a location for a meet: Tuna’s, a small restaurant and margarita bar off West Dixie highway in North Miami Beach.
- 5
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
adjective
- 1
archaicSuitable; right; proper.
It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […]
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.
And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
[…] it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.
- 2
obsoleteSubmissive; passive.
Etymology
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”).
Forms
- plural
- meets
- comparative
- meeter
- superlative
- meetest
- past tense
- met
- past participle
- met
- present participle
- meeting
- third person singular
- meets
meet · To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
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