Meet vs. Met
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;
Metverb
(obsolete) To dream.
Met
imp. & p. p. of Meet.
Met
imp. & p. p. of Mete, to measure.
Met
p. p. of Mete, to dream.
