Etimology
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”).
verb
meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
(Of groups) To come together.
To make physical or perceptual contact.
To satisfy; to comply with.
(intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
Examples
Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
Yesterday, upon the stairI met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayI wish, I wish he’d go away […]
Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
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!
Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Sir said Epynegrys is þt the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyllAs for that sayd Dynadan make the redyfor here is for meAnd there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan
Weapons more violent, when next we meet,May serve to better us and worse our foes.
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
England and Holland will meet in the final.
The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do
The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet.
The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
[…] And all we met was fair and good,And all was good that Time could bring, […]
‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui...’
noun
meet (plural meets)
(sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
(hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
(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.
(informal) A meeting.
(algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
Examples
track meet
swim meet
Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ , and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swim meet was nerve-wracking.
Antonym: pass
OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit.
Rosen assured Cregger that he had left no paper trail in bringing the rock into the States. Pretending to be reassured, Cregger agreed to a location for a meet: Tuna’s, a small restaurant and margarita bar off West Dixie highway in North Miami Beach.
Antonym: join
Etimology
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
adjective
meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)
(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
Examples
It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, / Againſt the Moore. […]
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.
And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
[…] it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.
The mountain birds are sweeter,But the valley birds are fatter,And so we deemed it meeterTo carry off the latter.