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meet

verb
/miːt/UK/mit/US

Etymology

From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”). Cognates Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.

  1. derived from *meh₂d-✻ — “to come, meet”
  2. inherited from *mōtijaną✻
  3. inherited from *mōtijan✻
  4. inherited from mētan
  5. inherited from meten

Definitions

  1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

    • 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[…]

  2. To come together.

    • I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.

  3. To make physical or perceptual contact.

    • 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
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. To satisfy

      To satisfy; to comply with.

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

    2. To balance or come out correct.

    3. To perceive

      To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

      • 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, […]

    4. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

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

    5. A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.

      • track meet
      • swim meet
      • Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ (disqualification), and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swim meet was nerve-wracking.

    6. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting

      A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.

    7. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a…

      A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

    8. A meeting.

      • OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
      • You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
      • So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit.

    9. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by…

      The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

    10. Suitable

      Suitable; right; proper.

      • It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […]
      • And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.
      • And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

    11. Submissive

      Submissive; passive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at meet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at meet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at meet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA