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Verb: meet (met)  meet
  1. Come together
    "I'll probably see you at the meeting"
    - run into, encounter, run across, come across, see
     
  2. Get together socially or for a specific purpose
    - get together
     
  3. Be adjacent or come together
    - converge
     
  4. Fill or meet a want or need
    - satisfy, fill, fulfill [N. Amer], fulfil [Brit, Cdn]
     
  5. Satisfy a condition or restriction
    "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
    - fit, conform to
     
  6. Satisfy or fulfil
    "meet a need"
    - match, cope with
     
  7. Collect in one place
    - gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
     
  8. Get to know; get acquainted with
    "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"
     
  9. Meet by design; be present at the arrival of
    "Can you meet me at the train station?"
     
  10. Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
    - encounter, play, take on
     
  11. Experience as a reaction
    "My proposal met with much opposition"
    - encounter, receive
     
  12. Undergo or suffer
    "meet a violent death"
    - suffer
     
  13. Be in direct physical contact with; make contact
    - touch, adjoin, contact
Noun: meet  meet
  1. A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
    - sports meeting
Adjective: meet  meet
  1. Being precisely fitting and right
    "it is only meet that she should be seated first"
    - fitting

Sounds like: meat, mete

Derived forms: met, meeting, meets

See also: just, meeter, meeting

Type of: agree, athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics, cater, check, contend, cope, correspond, deal, experience, fit, get by, gibe, go through, grapple, have, interact, jibe, make do, make out, manage, match, ply, provide, see, supply, tally

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