meet
/miːt/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- An act of French kissing someone.
- To make contact (with) while in proximity.
- (Of groups) To come together.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- To balance or come out correct.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- Suitable; right; proper.
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