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Meet   /mit/   Listen
Meet

verb
(past & past part. met; pres. part. meeting)
1.
Come together.  Synonyms: come across, encounter, run across, run into, see.  "How nice to see you again!"
2.
Get together socially or for a specific purpose.  Synonym: get together.
3.
Be adjacent or come together.  Synonym: converge.
4.
Fill or meet a want or need.  Synonyms: fill, fulfil, fulfill, satisfy.
5.
Satisfy a condition or restriction.  Synonyms: conform to, fit.
6.
Satisfy or fulfill.  Synonyms: cope with, match.  "This job doesn't match my dreams"
7.
Collect in one place.  Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather.  "Let's gather in the dining room"
8.
Get to know; get acquainted with.  "We met in Singapore"
9.
Meet by design; be present at the arrival of.
10.
Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle.  Synonyms: encounter, play, take on.  "Charlie likes to play Mary"
11.
Experience as a reaction.  Synonyms: encounter, receive.
12.
Undergo or suffer.  Synonym: suffer.  "Suffer a terrible fate"
13.
Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.  Synonyms: adjoin, contact, touch.  "Their hands touched" , "The wire must not contact the metal cover" , "The surfaces contact at this point"
noun
1.
A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held.  Synonym: sports meeting.
adjective
1.
Being precisely fitting and right.  Synonym: fitting.



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"Meet" Quotes from Famous Books



... killed." There are two species of rattle-snake, which are in constant hostility with each other. The common black snake, whose bite is perfectly innoxious, and the copper-head, have also a deadly enmity towards the rattle-snake, which, when they meet it, they ...
— A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America • S. A. Ferrall
... taken to France and had in operation 967 standard gauge locomotives and 13,174 standard gauge freight cars of American manufacture. In addition it had in service 350 locomotives and 973 cars of foreign origin. To meet demands which the existing French railways were unable to meet, 843 miles of standard gauge railway were constructed. Five hundred miles of this had been built since ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... each other in despair, and it was terrible to each, in this dire emergency, to meet only the beautiful eyes of perfect strangers, instead of the merry, friendly, commonplace, twinkling, jolly little eyes of its own ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... disappointment and wondered what her future was to be. She had no desire to return to her manor, and for a season in London she cared as little. She would have been glad to remain on Nevis, but to this she knew that Mrs. Nunn would not hearken. London was inevitable; and possibly she would meet some intelligent and interesting man who would help her to bury romance and fulfil ...
— The Gorgeous Isle - A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 • Gertrude Atherton
... know my father, Retiring into cloistral solitude To yield the remnant of his years to heaven, Will shift the yoke and weight of all the world From off his neck to mine. We meet at Brussels. But since mine absence will not be for long, Your Majesty shall go to Dover with me, ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson


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