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meet

/mit/

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What does meet mean?

verb

  1. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
  2. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
  3. To get acquainted with someone.
More meanings (18)

verb

  1. To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
  2. To come together in conflict.
  3. To play a match.
  4. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
  5. To touch or hit something while moving.
  6. To adjoin, be physically touching.
  7. To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
  8. To satisfy; to comply with.
  9. To balance or come out correct.
  10. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  11. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

noun

  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
  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. (informal) A meeting.
  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

adjective

  1. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
  2. (obsolete) Submissive; passive.
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The Territory has to import food, fuel, and construction materials, and is dependent on budgetary support from France to meet recurring expenses.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.
Robert Louis StevensonThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeProject Gutenberg ebook #42
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of Green GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #45
There was the edge of the cliff, and some way below was the hut, where presently, her husband would meet his death.
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelProject Gutenberg ebook #60
With a cry of rage I turned to meet the cowardly beasts, but as I advanced they retreated as had their fellow.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe gods of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #64