Meaning of meet in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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.

  Example: 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.

  Example: 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.

  Example: The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.

• To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

adjective

• Suitable; right; proper.