Meet vs. Mate

Meetverb

Of individuals: to make personal contact.

Meetverb

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

Meetverb

To come face to face with someone by arrangement.

Meetverb

To get acquainted with someone.

Meetverb

(Ireland) To French kiss someone.

Meetverb

Of groups: to gather or oppose.

Meetverb

To gather for a formal or social discussion.

Meetverb

To come together in conflict.

Meetverb

(sports) To play a match.

Meetverb

To make physical or perceptual contact.

Meetverb

To converge and finally touch or intersect.

Meetverb

To touch or hit something while moving.

Meetverb

To adjoin, be physically touching.

Meetverb

To satisfy; to comply with.

Meetverb

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

Meetnoun

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

Meetnoun

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

Meetnoun

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

Meetnoun

A meeting.

Meetnoun

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

Meetnoun

(Irish) An act of French kissing someone.

Meetadjective

(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

Meetverb

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.

Meetverb

To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.

Meetverb

To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.

Meetverb

To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate.

Meetverb

To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand.

Meetverb

To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.

Meetverb

To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.

Meetverb

To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.

Meetverb

To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.

Meetnoun

An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.

Meetadjective

Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.

Meetadverb

Meetly.

Meetnoun

a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

Meetverb

come together;

Meetverb

get together socially or for a specific purpose

Meetverb

be adjacent or come together;

Meetverb

fill or meet a want or need

Meetverb

satisfy a condition or restriction;

Meetverb

satisfy or fulfill;

Meetverb

get to know; get acquainted with;

Meetverb

collect in one place;

Meetverb

meet by design; be present at the arrival of;

Meetverb

contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle;

Meetverb

experience as a reaction;

Meetverb

undergo or suffer;

Meetverb

be in direct physical contact with; make contact;

Meetadjective

being precisely fitting and right;

Matenoun

A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.

Matenoun

(especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.

Matenoun

A friend, usually of the same sex.

Matenoun

a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age

Matenoun

(nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).

Matenoun

(nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.

Matenoun

(nautical) A first mate.

Matenoun

A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.

Matenoun

The other member of a matched pair of objects.

Matenoun

A suitable companion; a match; an equal.

Matenoun

(chess) Short for checkmate.

Matenoun

alternative spelling of maté|nodot=1, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).

Matenoun

The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea

Mateverb

(intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.

Mateverb

(intransitive) To copulate.

Mateverb

(intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring

Mateverb

(transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.

Mateverb

(transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.

Mateverb

To copulate with.

Mateverb

(transitive) To marry; to match (a person).

Mateverb

(transitive) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.

Mateverb

(transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.

Mateverb

To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.

Mateverb

(intransitive) To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate

Mateverb

To confuse; to confound.

Matenoun

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.

Matenoun

Same as Checkmate.

Matenoun

One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.

Matenoun

Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.

Matenoun

A suitable companion; a match; an equal.

Matenoun

An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.

Mateadjective

See 2d Mat.

Mateverb

To confuse; to confound.

Mateverb

To checkmate.

Mateverb

To match; to marry.

Mateverb

To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.

Mateverb

To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.

Mateverb

To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches.

Mateverb

To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.

Matenoun

the officer below the master on a commercial ship

Matenoun

a fellow member of a team;

Matenoun

the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner);

Matenoun

a person's partner in marriage

Matenoun

an exact duplicate;

Matenoun

South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea

Matenoun

informal term for a friend of the same sex

Matenoun

South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate

Matenoun

a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

Mateverb

make love;

Mateverb

bring two objects, ideas, or people together;

Mateverb

place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game;