Meet vs. Met

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  • Meet (verb)

    Of individuals: to make personal contact.

  • Meet (verb)

    To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

    “Fancy meeting you here!”

    “Guess who I met at the supermarket today?”

  • 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?”

  • 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!”

  • Meet (verb)

    Of groups: to gather or oppose.

  • Meet (verb)

    To French kiss someone.

  • 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.”

  • Meet (verb)

    To come together in conflict.

  • Meet (verb)

    To make physical or perceptual contact.

  • Meet (verb)

    To play a match.

    “England and Holland will meet in the final.”

  • Meet (verb)

    To converge and finally touch or intersect.

    “The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.”

  • Meet (verb)

    To touch or hit something while moving.

    “The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.”

  • Meet (verb)

    To satisfy; to comply with.

    “This proposal meets my requirements.”

    “The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.”

  • 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.”

  • Meet (noun)

    A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming (a swim meet).

  • Meet (noun)

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

  • 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.

  • Meet (noun)

    A meeting.

    “OK, let’s arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.”

  • Meet (noun)

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

  • Meet (noun)

    An act of French kissing someone.

  • Meet (adjective)

    Suitable; right; proper.

  • Met (verb)

    To dream.

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