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[ verb ] come together
Synonyms see encounter ran_into run_across come_across foregather forgather Examples "I'll probably see you at the meeting" "How nice to see you again!" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Anyway , a number of them meet here in devastating collisions . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)`` in many corners of the globe '' , he said , `` the major source of impressions about this country are in the movies they meet . (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set_out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)Large_numbers of potential builders have been investigated , but none have been found to be as effective as the polyphosphates over the relatively wide range of conditions met in_practice . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)If a branch extended out too far , each man held it back for the next , and if they met a low overhang , each warned the other . |
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[ verb ] get together socially or for a specific purpose
Synonyms Used in print (The New York Times,...)On Friday , Roger_Maris , the Yankee outfielder and winner of the American_League 's most-valuable-player award , will meet with Roy_Hamey , the general_manager . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)that the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal , gradient frequencies , across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met ? Chauncey_Depew , one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination , was attending a convention at Saratoga , where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel_Theodore_Roosevelt for Governor of New_York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)I did have the decency to call_up Thelma and tell her I 'd met old friends and would be home late . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)He replied that he could not imagine what importance there might be in thus meeting with a stranger , but - joy of joys , he would be at home at the hour mentioned . |
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[ verb ] be adjacent or come together
Synonyms Examples "The lines converge at this point" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose . Related terms |
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[ verb ] fill or meet a want or need
Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers ' expense , but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings - or those of their children - caused by an extended hospital stay '' . `` This is a very modest proposal cut to meet absolutely essential needs '' , he said , `` and with sufficient ' deductible ' requirements to discourage any malingering or unnecessary overcrowding of our hospitals . The President said the nation 's 92 medical and 47 dental_schools cannot now handle the student load needed to meet the rising need for health_care . (The Oregonian...)`` The church 's ability to change her methods is going_to determine her ability to meet the challenge of_this hour '' . (The Atlanta Constitution...)`` Emory could not continue to operate according to its present standards as an institution of higher learning , of true university grade , and meet its financial_obligations , without the tax-exemption privileges which are available to_it only so_long as it conforms_to the aforementioned constitutional and statutory provisions '' , the statement said . Related terms provide feed_on quench quell answer fulfillment satisfier satisfaction |
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[ verb ] satisfy a condition or restriction
Synonyms Examples "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" Used in print (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Once these conditions of international_law are met , countries that try to run to blockade do so at their own risk . Related terms |
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[ verb ] satisfy or fulfill
Examples "meet a need" "this job doesn't match my dreams" Used in print (Orlin J. Scoville, Part-Time Farming...)The farmer 's life must be arranged to meet the demands of crops and livestock . Part-time farming gives a measure of security if the regular job is lost , provided the farm is owned free_of debt and furnishes enough income to meet fixed expenses and minimum living costs . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)It could , by avoiding direct intervention , provide a short-of war strategy to meet short-of war infiltration . (Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S. D. D....)The growing communications needs of this new State can best be met , as they have in other States , through the operation and development of such facilities by private enterprise . (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)Another patient , a paranoid woman , for many months infuriated not_only me but the ward personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building , as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met . Related terms |
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[ verb ] collect in one place
Synonyms Examples "We assembled in the church basement" "Let's gather in the dining room" Used in print (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)`` Officials Meet on Rubbish . |
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[ verb ] get to know; get acquainted with
Examples "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!" "we met in Singapore" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)The following year he devoted to the customary `` Wanderjahr '' , traveling in Germany , France , and the_Netherlands , meeting the philosophers Schelling , Fichte , and Tieck . He also met Count_Rumford ( born Benjamin_Thompson in Woburn,_Mass . ) who was then serving the Elector_of_Bavaria , and the physicist Ritter ; these were Oersted 's main contacts in science . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)But everyone I met had sought cover first and asked questions later . `` We '' were Bill_Garrett of the National_Geographic Illustrations_Staff , whose three cameras and eight lenses made him look as formidable as any fighting man we met ; Boun_My , our interpreter ; and myself . (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)My wish to meet Samuel_Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work . |
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[ verb ] meet by design; be present at the arrival of
Examples "Can you meet me at the train station?" Used in print (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)He started down the steps to meet the near-blind preacher , who had been one of the early Gospelers in Paris . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)`` Joseph_Maria_Ballestre meet Francis_Xavier_Bowman . Exboyfriend meet exhusband '' . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)They 've never met , you_know . Related terms |
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[ verb ] contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
Examples "Princeton plays Yale this weekend" "Charlie likes to play Mary" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)The Texans have two more road_games - at Buffalo and Houston - before they play for the home_folks again , and it looks as if coach Hank_Stram 's men will meet the Bills just_as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)It gives him aid , comfort , even solace , in meeting mundane life situations where his own unassisted practical knowledge and skill are felt by him to be inadequate . |
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[ verb ] experience as a reaction
Examples "My proposal met with much opposition" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)That , however , may also bring the police , if the thinking does not meet with social approval . (Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)Shrugs met that , from room_clerks , from bellhops . Shrugs met that . (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)Glowering looks met them in the bar , but there was no attempt to halt them . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sport) a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
Synonyms Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)George_Kerr , the swift striding Jamaican , set a meet record in the 600 - yard run in the Knights_of_Columbus track_meet tonight , beating Purdue 's Dave_Mills in a hot duel in 1.10.1 . Both were under the meet mark of 1.10.8 set in 1950 by Mal_Whitfield . The crowd at the twenty-first annual K._of_C._Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a_few minutes earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world_record in the half-mile run . She snapped five tenths of a second off the mark set by Helen_Shipley , of Wellsley_College , in the National_A.A.U. meet in Columbus , Ohio . |
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[ verb ] undergo or suffer
Synonyms Examples "meet a violent death" "suffer a terrible fate" Used in print (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)And , in the last case , a bitter disappointment but too often meets the confiding nature '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be in direct physical contact with; make contact
Examples "The two buildings touch" "Their hands touched" "The wire must not contact the metal cover" "The surfaces contact at this point" Used in print (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)An ordinary point will be any point_of_intersection A such_that in every neighborhood of A in the C-plane , **f meets both the interior and the exterior of C . |
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