# meet

Pronunciation: say "MEET" US /mit/, UK /miːt/

## Verb

1. To be introduced to someone and become acquainted for the first time.
   - Simple: To see and get to know someone for the first time.
   - _Travelers often meet interesting people on long journeys._
   - _He first met his future wife at an academic conference._
2. To come face to face with someone, either by arrangement or by chance.
   - Simple: To see and be with someone, because you planned it or by chance.
   - _We agreed to meet outside the theater at seven._
   - _I'm meeting my old college roommate for brunch downtown on Sunday morning._
3. To satisfy a requirement, need, or standard; to comply with what is demanded.
   - Simple: To do what is needed or asked for.
   - _Applicants must meet strict eligibility criteria._
   - _The factory met its production targets ahead of schedule._
4. Of a group, to come together to discuss matters, whether officially or socially; to convene.
   - Simple: When people come together as a group to talk about something.
   - _The committee meets every quarter to review the budget._
   - _Shareholders meet annually to vote on major decisions._
7. To come to know, experience, or undergo something, whether welcome or unwelcome.
   - Simple: To come across, learn about, or go through something, such as a problem or surprise.
   - _Travelers in remote places often meet kindness from strangers._
   - _She met great hardship during the long winter._
8. Of lines, roads, rivers, or surfaces, to come together and touch, join, or cross.
   - Simple: When two things, like roads or rivers, come together or touch.
   - _The rivers meet a few miles south of the town._
   - _The two roads meet just past the old church._
9. To face an opponent in a sporting contest or in battle.
   - Simple: To play against someone in a game, or fight against them.
   - _United meet City in the league opener on Saturday._
   - _The defending champions met their rivals in the semifinal._
11. To touch or strike something in the course of moving.
   - Simple: To touch or hit something as you move.
   - _Bat and ball meet at the perfect moment for a home run._
   - _The hull met the dock with a gentle bump._
10. To be combined or blended with the qualities of something else.
   - Simple: To be mixed or blended together with something else.
   - _Her debut novel is where history meets fantasy._
   - _These designs let rustic textures meet sleek modern lines._
12. To respond to an argument or objection with an equally convincing reply; to refute it.
   - Simple: To answer an argument with a reply that proves it wrong.
   - _The senator met the criticism with solid figures and calm logic._
   - _Debaters must meet every objection with an equally firm reply._

## Noun

5. An arranged meeting, often informal, such as friends getting together or people meeting to make a deal, especially in crime talk. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A planned meeting, such as friends getting together or people meeting in secret to make a deal.
   - _We arranged a meet to go over the weekend plans._
   - _The detective set up a meet with the informant in an empty parking lot._
6. An organized contest between athletes, most often in swimming or track and field.
   - Simple: A sports event where athletes compete, often in running or swimming.
   - _Hundreds of swimmers registered for the regional meet._
   - _The university hosts an annual track-and-field meet each spring._
13. A gathering of riders, horses, and hounds assembled for a hunt, especially foxhunting.
   - Simple: A gathering of riders, horses, and dogs ready to begin a hunt.
   - _Riders in red coats and a pack of hounds gathered on the village green for the meet._
   - _Hounds and horses gathered for the traditional Boxing Day meet._

## Adjective

14. Suitable, fitting, or proper to a situation or occasion. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Right and proper for a certain time or purpose.
15. Submissive or passive in disposition; yielding. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Quiet, gentle, and willing to obey others.

## Other meanings

- (verb) To balance correctly, as when figures or accounts come out even.
- (noun) An occasion on a single-track railway when two trains traveling in opposite directions pass each other, one waiting in a siding while the other goes by.
- (noun) In lattice theory, the greatest lower bound of two elements, written with the symbol ∧.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–13** — Old English mētan, meaning to meet, find or encounter, became Middle English meten. It traces back through Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną to *meh₂d-, a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to come, meet." The word is related to "moot," and the Germanic languages have many cognates, such as Dutch ontmoeten and Swedish möta.
**Meanings 14–15** — From Middle English mete, from Old English ġemǣte ("suitable, having the same measurements"), from Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz ("reasonable; estimable"), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *med- ("to measure"). It is cognate with Dutch meten ("measure") and German gemäß ("suitable").

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