meet
/miːt/
Dictionary
noun
- A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
- A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- A meeting.
"OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him."
- The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- An act of French kissing someone.
verb
- To make contact (with) while in proximity.
- (Of groups) To come together.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
"This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs."
- To balance or come out correct.
- 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."
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
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