meet

• It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […] - c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”,...
• And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:18:
• And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone...

• track meet
• swim meet
• Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ (disqualification), and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swim meet was...

Antonyms: pass

• OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
• You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period. - 2002, George Pelecanos, “Cleaning Up”, in The Wire, season 1, episode 12 (television production):
• So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit. - 2004, Matthew Weiner, “Rat Pack”, in The Sopranos, season 5, episode 2...

Antonyms: join

• Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
• Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…] - 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:

1. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

2. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.

   • Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
   • With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze. - 1963, Margery...

3. To get acquainted with someone.

   • I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
   • I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
   • José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria.

• I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
• At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle,...

1. To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.

2. To come together in conflict.

   • Sir said Epynegrys is þᵗ the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy for here is for me And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to...
   • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. - 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by...
   • The dispatches[…] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was...

3. (sports) To play a match.

   • England and Holland will meet in the final.

• The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
• Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do -...

1. To converge and finally touch or intersect.

2. To touch or hit something while moving.

   • The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.

3. To adjoin, be physically touching.

   • The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.

4. (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.

   • Carrados knew quite enough of flint implements—as indeed he seemed to know enough of any subject beneath the sun—to be able to talk on level terms with an expert, and he was quite equal to meeting a reference to Evans...
   • He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.

• This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
• Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational...

• 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant...

• The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
• Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. - 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
• […] And all we met was fair and good, ⁠And all was good that Time could bring, […] - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 40:

• ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’ - 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN,...