Dictionary Definition
meet adj : being precisely fitting and right; "it
is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: fitting] n : a meeting at which
a number of athletic contests are held [syn: sports
meeting]
Verb
1 come together; "I'll probably see you at the
meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: ran into,
encounter, run across,
come
across, see]
2 get together socially or for a specific purpose
[syn: get
together]
3 be adjacent or come together; "The lines
converge at this point" [syn: converge] [ant: diverge, diverge]
5 satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this
paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: fit, conform
to]
7 get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this
really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in
Singapore"
8 collect in one place; "We assembled in the
church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: gather, assemble, forgather, foregather]
9 meet by design; be present at the arrival of;
"Can you meet me at the train station?"
10 contend against an opponent in a sport, game,
or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to
play Mary" [syn: encounter, play, take on]
12 undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death";
"suffer a terrible fate" [syn: suffer]
13 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" [syn: touch,
adjoin, contact] [also: met]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
mētanVerb
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
- Fancy meeting you here!
- Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
- Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom?
- Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
- To converge and
finally touch or intersect.
- The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
- To satisfy; to
comply with.
- This proposal meets my requirements.
Derived terms
- to meet up
Translations
encounter
- Afrikaans: ontmoet
- Czech: potkat
- Danish: møde, træffe
- Dutch: ontmoeten, treffen
- Ewe: tu
- Filipino: magtagpô
- Finnish: tavata
- French: rencontrer
- German: treffen, begegnen
- Indonesian: bertemu, menemui
- Japanese: 会う (あう, au)
- Malay: bertemu, terjumpa
- Portuguese: encontrar
- Romanian: a întâlni
- Spanish: encontrar, encontrarse
- Swahili: kukutana
- Swedish: träffa, råka
- Telugu: కలుసుకొను (kalusukonu)
- Welsh: cwrdd (â, cyfarfod (â)
see through arrangement
converge and touch
comply
- Czech: splnit
- Danish: opfylde
- Dutch: overeenstemmen met, beantwoorden aan, vervullen
- German: entsprechen, gerechtwerden, nachkommen
- Portuguese: satisfazer
- Romanian: a raspunde (la)
- Spanish: llenar
- Swedish: uppfylla
- Welsh: cwrdd (â)
Noun
- A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
- A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)
Derived terms
- cornfield meet (train collision)
Etymology 2
From O.E. gemæte "suitable, having the same measurements", from the Proto-Germanic root ga-mætijaz (cognate with Dutch meten 'measure', German gemäß "suitable" etc.), itself from collective prefix ga- + Proto-Indo-European root med- "to measure"Adjective
meetDutch
Pronunciation
- /met/
- /met/
Verb
meet- - measure(s)
Noun
meet- finish line in a competition
Extensive Definition
Meet (or MEET) can have a variety of meanings,
depending on the context in which it is used.
- MEET is an acronym of Medical Education Eligibility Test, a standardized test administered for professional graduate schools of medicine in South Korea. In South Korea, shortly, the schools are just called as "medical schools," the English loanword.
- In mathematics, a meet is a greatest lower bound.
- Competitions amongst teams in various sports (such as fencing or track and field) are termed meets.
- Meets can refer to summits.
- Meet and greet refers to public relations.
- meet (met) adjective, Fitting; proper old English
See also
- Meetup.com, an online social networking portal
- OMEET is an acronym of Oriental Medical Education Eligibility Test, a standardized test administered for professional graduate schools of oriental medicine (traditional Korean medicine) in South Korea.
- DEET is an acronym of Dental Education Eligibility Test, a standardized test administered for professional graduate schools of dentistry in South Korea.
- LEET is an acronym of Legal Education Eligibility Test, a standardized test administered for professional graduate schools of law in South Korea. In South Korea, shortly, the schools are just called as "law schools," the English loanword.
- PEET is an acronym of Pharmacy Education Eligibility Test, a standardized test administered for professional graduate schools of pharmacy in South Korea, scheduled to be carried out from 2011.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Highland games, Olympiad, Olympic games,
Olympics, abide by,
abut, accepted, accommodate, accommodate
with, accommodated,
accord, accost, acknowledged, act up to,
adapt, adapt to, adhere, adhere to, adjoin, adjust, adjust to, admitted, advantageous, advisable, affront, agree, agree in opinion, agree
with, alight upon, answer, applicable, approach, appropriate, approved, apt, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assimilate to,
at home, attend to, auspicious, avail, balanced, ball, bang, bang into, be equal to, be
exposed to, be faithful to, be guided by, be subjected to, bear, beard, becoming, befitting, being done, bell
the cat, bend, bite the
bullet, bout, brave, brawl, brazen, brazen out, breast, bring before, bring
forward, bring up, bump,
bump into, bunch, bunch
up, call together, cannon, carom, carom into, carousel, carry out, caucus, center, centralize, challenge, chance, chance upon, chime in
with, civil, clash, clinch, close, close in, close up, close
with, clot, cluster, cohere, coincide, collect, collide, colloquium, come across, come
among, come into collision, come together, come up against, come
upon, comme il faut, commission, committee, communicate, compete, compete with, competition, comply, comply with, compose, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, conclave, concours, concourse, concur, concuss, conflict, conform, conform to, conformable, confront, confront each other,
confront with, congregate, congregation, congress, congruous, connect, contest, convene, convenient, conventicle, convention, conventional, converge, convocation, convoke, cope, copulate, correct, correspond, council, couple, crack up, crash, crash into, cross, crowd, crump, crunch, customary, dance, dare, dash into, date, de rigueur, deal with,
decathlon, decent, decorous, defensible, defray, defy, derby, deserved, desirable, diet, discipline, dispose of,
ditto, do, do it, do justice to,
double-header, doubles,
due, echo, eisteddfod, embrace, emulate, encounter, endure, engagement, envisage, equal, equitable, even, evenhanded, event, expedient, experience, face, face the music, face up, face
up to, face with, fair,
fair and square, fall across, fall among, fall foul of, fall in
with, fall upon, favorable, feasible, feel, felicitous, festivity, fete, field day, fight, fill, fill the bill, find, fit, fitten, fitting, flock together, flow
together, focus, follow, forgather, forgathering, formal, fortunate, forum, foul, foursome, front, fructuous, fulfill, funnel, fuse, game, games, games of chance, gang
around, gang up, gather,
gather around, gathering, gear to, genteel, get by, get together
with, get-together, go, go
along with, go around, go by, go through, go with, good, grapple, gratify, greet, grow together, gymkhana, hack it, handle, hang together, happen
upon, happy, harmonize, have, heed, herd together, hit, hit against, hive, hold, hold a meeting, hold a
session, hold by, hold together, horde, housewarming, huddle, hurt, hurtle, impinge, intercommunicate,
intersect, jockey, join, joust, just, just do, justifiable, justified, keep, keep faith with, knit, knock, knock against, know, labor under, lawful, lay before, league, legal, levee, level, light, light upon, likely, link, link up, liquidate, live up to,
luck, lucky, make conform, make good,
make the grade, mass,
match, matching, measure up, meet and
right, meet boldly, meet head-on, meet requirements, meet squarely,
meet up with, meet with, meeting, merge, merited, mill, mold, muster, narrow the gap, nip, observe, open, opportune, oppose, orthodox, outvie, panel, party, pass, pass muster, pass through,
pay, pentathlon, percuss, pinch, pitch upon, place before,
play, play-off, plenum, politic, present to, profitable, prom, proper, propitious, providential, put it to,
qualify, quorum, race, rally, rally around, reach, received, reception, recognized, recommendable, reconcile, reconciled, rectify, regard, regatta, rencontre, rendezvous, respect, right, right and proper, rightful, ripe, rival, rub off corners, run
across, run into, run smack into, run the gauntlet, run together,
run up against, run upon, runoff, salute, satisfy, seance, seasonable, see, seemly, seethe, serve, serve the purpose, session, set at defiance, set
before, settle, shape, shindig, side with, sideswipe, singles, sit, sit-in, sitting, slam into, smack into,
smash, smash into, smash
up, soiree, sortable, speak out, speak up,
spend, sport, square, stand, stand under, stand up,
stand up to, stem, straighten, stream, stretch, strike, strike against, strike in
with, stumble, stumble
on, suffer, suffice, suit, suitable, summon, surge, sustain, swarm, symposium, synod, take care of, take it, take
on, tally with, taper,
taste, test, test one another, the
Olympics, threesome,
throng, tie, tilt, timely, to be desired, touch, tournament, tourney, track meet, traditional, trial, tumble, turnout, tussle, twosome, undergo, unite, urbane, useful, vie, vie with, warrantable, warranted, well-timed,
whomp, wise, work, worthwhile, wrestle, yield