Meeting vs. Session

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  • Meeting

    A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Many various types of meetings exist.

Wikipedia
  • Meeting (noun)

    The action of the verb to meet.

  • Meeting (noun)

    A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.

    “We need to have a meeting about that soon.”

  • Meeting (noun)

    The people at such a gathering, as a collective.

    “What has the meeting decided.”

  • Meeting (noun)

    An encounter between people, even accidental.

    “They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.”

  • Meeting (noun)

    A place or instance of junction or intersection.

    “Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.”

  • Meeting (noun)

    A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

  • Meeting (noun)

    An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

    “Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.”

  • Meeting (verb)

    present participle of meet

  • Session (noun)

    A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.

    “a training session”

    “”Are we having a recording session?” / “Yes. We’ve even got some session musicians to provide some brass.””

  • Session (noun)

    A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

    “This court is now in session.”

  • Session (noun)

    The logged in or connected.

    “Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.”

  • Session (noun)

    Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.

  • Session (noun)

    The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

  • Session (noun)

    ellipsis of jam session

  • Session (noun)

    An academic term.

  • Session (verb)

    To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Wiktionary
  • Session (noun)

    a meeting of an official body, especially a legislature, council, or court of law, to conduct its business

    “the governor called this week’s special session to reconsider the decision”

  • Session (noun)

    a period during which an official body meets regularly to conduct its business

    “legislation to curb wildcat strikes will be introduced during the coming parliamentary session”

  • Session (noun)

    the part of a year or of a day during which teaching takes place in a school or college.

  • Session (noun)

    a period devoted to a particular activity

    “gym is followed by a training session”

  • Session (noun)

    a period of recording music in a studio, especially by a session musician

    “he did the sessions for a Great Country Hits album”

  • Session (noun)

    a period of heavy or sustained drinking

    “it was one hell of a session— we must have drunk about 12 cocktails each”

  • Session (noun)

    the governing body of a Presbyterian Church.

Oxford Dictionary

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