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Definition meet

Etymology 1

From Middle English meten, from Old English m?tan (“to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain”), from Proto-Germanic *m?tijan? (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“to come, meet”). Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian mete (“to meet”), West Frisian moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”). Related to moot.

Verb

meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)

1. To make contact (with) while in proximity.
   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.
   4. (Ireland) To French kiss someone.
2. (Of groups) To come together.
   1. To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
   2. To come together in conflict.
   3. (sports) To play a match.
3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
   1. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
   2. To touch or hit something while moving.
   3. To adjoin, be physically touching.
   4. (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
4. To satisfy; to comply with.
5. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
6. (of literature, movies, etc.) To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Noun

meet (plural meets)

1. A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
3. (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.
4. (informal) A meeting.
5. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ?.
6. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ?em?te (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gam?tijaz, *m?tiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

Adjective

meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)

1. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

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