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Adjective meet has 1 sense
- fitting, meet - being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first"
Antonym: unjust (indirect, via just)
Noun meet has 1 sense
- meet, sports meeting - a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
--1 is a kind of athletic contest, athletic competition, athletics
--1 has parts: track and field
--1 has particulars:
Verb meet has 13 senses
- meet, ran into, encounter, run across, come across, see - come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- meet, get together - get together socially or for a specific purpose
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- converge, meet - be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil - fill or meet a want or need
--4 is one way to provide, supply, ply, cater
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- meet, fit, conform to - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
--5 is one way to match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- meet, match, cope with - satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams"
--6 is one way to cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- meet - get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue meet
Sam cannot meet Sue
- meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
--8 is one way to interact
Sample sentence:
The crowds meet in the streets
- meet - meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?"
--9 is one way to meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- meet, encounter, play, take on - contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue meet
Sam cannot meet Sue
- meet, encounter, receive - experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
--11 is one way to have, experience
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
=> Something is ----ing PP
=> Somebody ----s PP
- suffer, meet - undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"
--12 is one way to experience, undergo, see, go through
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- touch, adjoin, meet, contact - be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
Sample sentences:
Our properties meet at this point
His fields meet mine at this point
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