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Encounter (verb)
To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
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Encounter (verb)
To confront (someone or something) face to face.
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Encounter (verb)
To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
“Three armies encountered at Waterloo.”
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Encounter (noun)
A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
“Their encounter was a matter of chance.”
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Encounter (noun)
A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
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Encounter (noun)
A match between two opposing sides.
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Meet (verb)
Of individuals: to make personal contact.
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Meet (verb)
To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
“Fancy meeting you here!”
“Guess who I met at the supermarket today?”
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Meet (verb)
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?”
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Meet (verb)
To get acquainted with someone.
“I’m pleased to meet you!”
“I’d like you to meet a colleague of mine.”
“I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn’t love at first sight; in fact, we couldn’t stand each other at first!”
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Meet (verb)
Of groups: to gather or oppose.
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Meet (verb)
To French kiss someone.
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Meet (verb)
To gather for a formal or social discussion.
“I met with them several times.”
“The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.”
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Meet (verb)
To come together in conflict.
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Meet (verb)
To make physical or perceptual contact.
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Meet (verb)
To play a match.
“England and Holland will meet in the final.”
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Meet (verb)
To converge and finally touch or intersect.
“The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.”
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Meet (verb)
To touch or hit something while moving.
“The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.”
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Meet (verb)
To satisfy; to comply with.
“This proposal meets my requirements.”
“The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.”
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Meet (verb)
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.”
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Meet (noun)
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming (a swim meet).
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Meet (noun)
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
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Meet (noun)
A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
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Meet (noun)
A meeting.
“OK, let’s arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.”
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Meet (noun)
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
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Meet (noun)
An act of French kissing someone.
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Meet (adjective)
Suitable; right; proper.