meet

Meanings

Verb

• To satisfy; to comply with.
• To balance or come out correct.
• To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
• To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Noun

• A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
• 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.
• The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

Adjective

• Suitable; right; proper.

Origin

• From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan ("to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain"), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan ("to meet"), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną ("to meet"), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-.
• Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit, North Frisian mete ("to meet"), West Frisian moetsje ("to meet"), Dutch ontmoeten ("to meet"), Low German möten ("to meet"), Danish møde ("to meet"), Norwegian Bokmål møte ("to meet"), Swedish möta ("to meet"), Icelandic mæta ("to meet"). Related to moot.
• From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte ("suitable, having the same measurements"), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (cognate with Dutch meten ("measure"), German gemäß ("suitable") etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- ("to measure").