What is meet?

More definitions of "meet":

• (verb): Collect in one place.
  Synonyms: gather, assemble, forgather, foregather

• (verb): Get to know; get acquainted with.
  Example: "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"

• (noun): A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held.
  Synonyms: sports meeting

• (verb): Experience as a reaction.
  Synonyms: encounter, receive

• (verb): Undergo or suffer.
  Example: "Meet a violent death"
  Synonyms: suffer

• (verb): Meet by design; be present at the arrival of.
  Example: "Can you meet me at the train station?"

• (verb): Satisfy or fulfill.
  Example: "Meet a need"
  Synonyms: match, cope with

• (verb): Be adjacent or come together.
  Synonyms: converge

• (verb): Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.
  Synonyms: touch, adjoin, contact

• (verb): Get together socially or for a specific purpose.
  Synonyms: get together

• (verb): Come together.
  Synonyms: ran into, encounter, run across, come across, see

• (verb): Satisfy a condition or restriction.
  Example: "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
  Synonyms: fit, conform to

• (adj): Being precisely fitting and right.
  Example: "It is only meet that she should be seated first"
  Synonyms: fitting

• (verb): Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle.
  Synonyms: encounter, play, take on

Famous quotes containing the word meet:

“We were observing once to Mr. [Samuel] Crisp that the good and the agreeable were seldom united—”Ay begad,” cried he, “’tis rare enough to meet with the one or the other.””
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)

“I’ll meet the raging of the skies,
But not an angry father.’”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

“No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)