Meaning of meet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
2. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
3. A meeting or contest, especially an athletic competition.
4. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
5. To make one another's acquaintance under unexpected and often comically adverse circumstances. Used especially of protagonists in a romantic comedy: In the movie, the lead characters meet cute in a park during a rainstorm.
6. To get acquainted with someone.
7. To die.
8. To come together.
9. To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
10. To make a compromise with.
11. To come together in conflict.
12. Fitting; proper: "It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place" (Shakespeare).
13. To play a match.
14. To make physical or perceptual contact.
15. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
16. suitable; fitting; proper.
17. A trial of skill or ability:competition, contest.
18. To touch or hit something while moving.
19. a gathering, especially of sportsmen. The local huntsmen are holding a meet this week. vergadering تَجَمُّع събиране encontro shromáždění die Jagdgesellschaft stævne; samling συνάντησηencuentro kokkutulek جلسه tapaaminen réunion אסיפה, ישיבה मिलना, भेंट होना, (आए हुए का) स्वागत करना sastanak találkozó pertemuan mót riunione 競技会 (경기자 등의) 모임 sueiga sanāksme; sacensība perjumpaan samenkomstsamling, stevne mityng ناسته encontro reuniune сбор zhromaždenie sestanek sastanak möte, samling, tävling ช...
    especially
20. To adjoin, be physically touching.
21. to respond to (someone) by making an equal effort or a compromise. I'll invest $5,000 in this idea if you meet me halfway and do the same. halfpad tegemoetkom يَتَّفِقان على حلٍ وَسَط، يَلْتَقيان في مُنْتَصَف الطَّريق отговарям ir ao encontro de vyjít vstříc na půl cesty auf halbem Weg entgegenkommen møde på halvvejen συμβιβάζομαι, μοιράζω τη διαφορά llegar a un acuerdo (kellelegi) vastu tulema نصفه کاره tulla puolitiehen vastaan faire la moitié du chemin “לְהִיפָּגֵש בַחֲצִי הַדֶרֶך” na pola...
22. To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
    transitive
23. To come into the presence of by chance or arrangement: I was surprised to meet an old friend in the park. I met a friend for coffee.
24. To satisfy; to comply with.
25. To balance or come out correct.
    intransitive
26. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
27. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Equivalents

Examples

“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[…]”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“England and Holland will meet in the final.”

“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”

“The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.”

“The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.”

“He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.”

“This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.”

“Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.”

“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.”

“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, […]”

“‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’”

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