Associations to the word «Meet»

Wiktionary

MEET, verb. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
MEET, verb. ​To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
MEET, verb. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
MEET, verb. To get acquainted with someone.
MEET, verb. (Ireland) To French kiss someone.
MEET, verb. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
MEET, verb. To gather for a formal or social discussion.
MEET, verb. To come together in conflict.
MEET, verb. (sports) To play a match.
MEET, verb. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
MEET, verb. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
MEET, verb. To touch or hit something while moving.
MEET, verb. To adjoin, be physically touching.
MEET, verb. To satisfy; to comply with.
MEET, verb. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
MEET, noun. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
MEET, noun. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
MEET, noun. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
MEET, noun. A meeting.
MEET, noun. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧ (mnemonic: half an M).
MEET, noun. (Irish) An act of French kissing someone.
MEET, adjective. Suitable; right; proper.
MEET AND GREET, noun. (idiomatic) An event where people can meet (especially, with famous people)
MEET CUTE, noun. (narratology) A situation in a film, television series, etc. in which a potential or future romantic couple meet for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, entertaining, or amusing.
MEET CUTE, noun. Any such situation in real life, also between non-romantically involved pairs of people
MEET CUTES, noun. Plural of meet cute
MEET HALFWAY, verb. (intransitive) (idiomatic) (of two parties) To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation.
MEET HALFWAY, verb. (transitive) (idiomatic) To compromise with or to accommodate.
MEET HALFWAY, verb. (rare) (transitive) (idiomatic) To settle (contrary opinions, etc.) by making concessions.
MEET MARKET, noun. Alternative form of meat market
MEET ONE'S DOOM, verb. To die.
MEET ONE'S END, verb. To die.
MEET ONE'S MAKER, verb. (idiomatic) (euphemistic) To die or to pass into the afterlife.
MEET UP, verb. To meet somebody, by arrangement.
MEET WITH, verb. Used other than as an idiom: see meet,‎ with.
MEET WITH, verb. (chiefly US) To have a meeting with (someone).
MEET WITH, verb. To encounter; to experience.
MEET WITH, verb. To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
MEET WITH, verb. To strike (something).
MEET WITH, verb. To contact or touch (something).

Dictionary definition

MEET, noun. A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held.
MEET, verb. Come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!".
MEET, verb. Get together socially or for a specific purpose.
MEET, verb. Be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point".
MEET, verb. Fill or meet a want or need.
MEET, verb. Satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?".
MEET, verb. Satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams".
MEET, verb. Collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room".
MEET, verb. Get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore".
MEET, verb. Meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?".
MEET, verb. Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary".
MEET, verb. Experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition".
MEET, verb. Undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate".
MEET, verb. 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".
MEET, adjective. Being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first".

Wise words

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche