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English Dictionary: meet	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for meet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
meet adj being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" Synonym(s): fitting, meet n a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held Synonym(s): meet, sports meeting v come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" Synonym(s): meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see get together socially or for a specific purpose Synonym(s): meet, get together be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point" Synonym(s): converge, meet Antonym(s): diverge fill or meet a want or need Synonym(s): meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" Synonym(s): meet, fit, conform to satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams" Synonym(s): meet, match, cope with collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" Synonym(s): meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore" meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?" contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary" Synonym(s): meet, encounter, play, take on experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition" Synonym(s): meet, encounter, receive undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate" Synonym(s): suffer, meet 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" Synonym(s): touch, adjoin, meet, contact
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meet \Meet\ (m[emac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Met} (m[ecr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Meeting}.] [OE. meten, AS. m[emac]tan, fr. m[omac]t, gem[omac]t, a meeting; akin to OS. m[omac]tian to meet, Icel. m[91]ta, Goth. gam[omac]tjan. See {Moot}, v. t.] 1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking. 2. To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents. 3. To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear. His daughter came out to meet him. --Judg. xi. 34. 4. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, 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. --Pope. 5. To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand. {To meet half way}, literally, to go half the distance between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect a compromise or reconciliation with.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meet \Meet\, v. t. 1. To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle. O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined ! --Milton. 2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. --Milton. 3. To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December. They . . . appointed a day to meet together. --2. Macc. xiv. 21. 4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite. {To meet with}. (a) To light upon; to find; to come to; -- often with the sense of unexpectedness. We met with many things worthy of observation. --Bacon. (b) To join; to unite in company. --Shak. (c) To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss. (d) To encounter; to be subjected to. Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince. --Rowe. (e) To obviate. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meet \Meet\, n. An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meet \Meet\, a. [OE. mete fitting, moderate, scanty, AS. m[?]te moderate; akin to gemet fit, meet, metan to mete, and G. m[84]ssig moderate, gem[84]ss fitting. See {Mete}.] Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. It was meet that we should make merry. --Luke xv. 32. {To be meet with}, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meet \Meet\ (m[emac]t), adv. Meetly. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Meet {greatest lower bound}