meet

meet
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noun (esp. AmE)
ADJECTIVE
gymnastics, race, swim, track
hunt (BrE)
championship
big, major
dual

a dual meet against Canada

spring, summer, etc.
swap

a swap meet for collectors of Star Trek memorabilia

VERB + MEET
hold

This year's meet was held in Anchorage, Alaska.

attend, go to

I can't go to your track meet after school tomorrow.

miss

Brooke missed the meet due to illness.

win

Sam's team won the track meet.

MEET + NOUN
record

Both scores were meet records.

PREPOSITION
at a/the meet

I swam faster at the last meet.

Did you buy it at the swap meet?

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verb
1 come together
ADVERB
first

the place where they had first met

regularly
once
never
eventually, finally

When these two finally met, the connection was electric.

briefly
privately, secretly
face-to-face, in person, personally

The three sisters rarely meet in person, but spend hours on the phone.

online

an interactive site where people can meet online

VERB + MEET
arrange to
chance to, happen to

A year or so later I happened to meet him again.

PREPOSITION
at

We met the next day at a local bar.

for

I arranged to meet her for lunch.

with

Management will meet with union representatives next week.

I met up with my friends in town.

PHRASES
look forward to meeting sb

I look forward to meeting you next week.

nice to meet you (esp. AmE), pleased to meet you (esp. BrE) (= a greeting used when you meet sb for the first time)
2 satisfy sth
ADVERB
head-on

They were determined to meet the challenge head-on.

VERB + MEET
be able to, can
be unable to, fail to

He had failed to meet his performance targets.

be designed to, be tailored to

The course is designed to meet the needs of young learners.

3 sb's eyes/gaze/look
ADVERB
squarely, unflinchingly, without flinching

Leonora met his gaze without flinching.

briefly
PREPOSITION
across

Their eyes met across the crowded room.

Meet is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑assembly, ↑association, ↑cabinet, ↑committee, ↑conference, ↑council, ↑delegation, ↑eye, ↑gaze, ↑glance, ↑lip, ↑parliament
Meet is used with these nouns as the object: ↑acquaintance, ↑approval, ↑arrival, ↑aspiration, ↑boyfriend, ↑budget, ↑challenge, ↑claim, ↑commitment, ↑condition, ↑cost, ↑criterion, ↑criticism, ↑deadline, ↑death, ↑debt, ↑definition, ↑delegation, ↑demand, ↑demise, ↑deputation, ↑destiny, ↑duty, ↑ear, ↑end, ↑enemy, ↑expectation, ↑expenditure, ↑expense, ↑eye, ↑fate, ↑gaze, ↑girlfriend, ↑guideline, ↑hero, ↑husband, ↑idol, ↑liability, ↑milestone, ↑mission, ↑need, ↑neighbour, ↑objection, ↑objective, ↑obligation, ↑official, ↑opposition, ↑order, ↑panel, ↑payment, ↑people, ↑pope, ↑press, ↑projection, ↑qualification, ↑quota, ↑realtor, ↑reception, ↑regulation, ↑repayment, ↑representative, ↑request, ↑requirement, ↑resistance, ↑responsibility, ↑road, ↑schedule, ↑shortage, ↑specification, ↑standard, ↑target, ↑taste, ↑threat, ↑threshold, ↑train, ↑want, ↑wife, ↑wish

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  • Meet — (m[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Met} (m[e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Meeting}.] [OE. meten, AS. m[=e]tan, fr. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; akin to OS. m[=o]tian to meet, Icel. m[ae]ta, Goth. gam[=o]tjan. See {Moot}, v. t.] 1. To join, or come in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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