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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meet \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.
     maeta, Goth. gam[=o]tjan. See {Moot}, v. t.]
     1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact
        with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon


        or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact
        by following and overtaking.
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     2. To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to
        encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated
        them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
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     3. To come into the presence of without contact; to come
        close to; to intercept; to come within the perception,
        influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a
        junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to
        meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
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              His daughter came out to meet him.    --Judg. xi.
                                                    34.
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     4. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal
        acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye
        met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
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              Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,
              Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
                                                    --Pope.
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     5. To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to
        satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the
        supply meets the demand.
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     {To meet half way}, literally, to go half the distance
        between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to
        yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect
        a compromise or reconciliation with.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meet \Meet\, v. t.
     1. To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in
        contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite
        directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in
        close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines
        meet so as to form an angle.
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              O, when meet now
              Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined !
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an
        encounter or conflict.
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              Weapons more violent, when next we meet,
              May serve to better us and worse our foes. --Milton.
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     3. To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on
        the first Monday of December.
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              They . . . appointed a day to meet together. --2.
                                                    Macc. xiv. 21.
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     4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree;
        to harmonize; to unite.
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     {To meet with}.
        (a) To light upon; to find; to come to; -- often with the
            sense of unexpectedness.
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                  We met with many things worthy of observation.
                                                    --Bacon.
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        (b) To join; to unite in company. --Shak.
        (c) To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to
            meet with a loss.
        (d) To encounter; to be subjected to.
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                  Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury
                  From the fierce prince.           --Rowe.
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        (e) To obviate. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meet \Meet\, n.
     An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for
     the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of
     meeting.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meet \Meet\, a. [OE. mete fitting, moderate, scanty, AS.
     m[=ae]te moderate; akin to gemet fit, meet, metan to mete,
     and G. m[aum]ssig moderate, gem[aum]ss fitting. See {Mete}.]
     Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.
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           It was meet that we should make merry.   --Luke xv. 32.
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     {To be meet with}, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meet \Meet\ (m[=e]t), adv.
     Meetly. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  meet
       adj : being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she
             should be seated first" [syn: {fitting}]
       n : a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
           [syn: {sports meeting}]
       v 1: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How
            nice to see you again!" [syn: {ran into}, {encounter}, {run
            across}, {come across}, {see}]
       2: get together socially or for a specific purpose [syn: {get
          together}]
       3: be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this
          point" [syn: {converge}] [ant: {diverge}, {diverge}]
       4: fill or meet a want or need [syn: {satisfy}, {fill}, {fulfill},
           {fulfil}]
       5: satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet
          the requirements for the degree?" [syn: {fit}, {conform to}]
       6: satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match
          my dreams" [syn: {match}, {cope with}]
       7: get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really
          handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"
       8: collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement";
          "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: {gather}, {assemble},
           {forgather}, {foregather}]
       9: meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet
          me at the train station?"
       10: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle;
           "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to
           play Mary" [syn: {encounter}, {play}, {take on}]
       11: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much
           opposition" [syn: {encounter}, {receive}]
       12: undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a
           terrible fate" [syn: {suffer}]
       13: 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" [syn: {touch}, {adjoin}, {contact}]
       [also: {met}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  499 Moby Thesaurus words for "meet":
     Highland games, Olympiad, Olympic games, Olympics, abide by, abut,
     accepted, accommodate, accommodate with, accommodated, accord,
     accost, acknowledged, act up to, adapt, adapt to, adhere,
     adhere to, adjoin, adjust, adjust to, admitted, advantageous,
     advisable, affront, agree, agree in opinion, agree with,
     alight upon, answer, applicable, approach, appropriate, approved,
     apt, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assimilate to,
     at home, attend to, auspicious, avail, balanced, ball, bang,
     bang into, be equal to, be exposed to, be faithful to,
     be guided by, be subjected to, bear, beard, becoming, befitting,
     being done, bell the cat, bend, bite the bullet, bout, brave,
     brawl, brazen, brazen out, breast, bring before, bring forward,
     bring up, bump, bump into, bunch, bunch up, call together, cannon,
     carom, carom into, carousel, carry out, caucus, center, centralize,
     challenge, chance, chance upon, chime in with, civil, clash,
     clinch, close, close in, close up, close with, clot, cluster,
     cohere, coincide, collect, collide, colloquium, come across,
     come among, come into collision, come together, come up against,
     come upon, comme il faut, commission, committee, communicate,
     compete, compete with, competition, comply, comply with, compose,
     concenter, concentralize, concentrate, conclave, concours,
     concourse, concur, concuss, conflict, conform, conform to,
     conformable, confront, confront each other, confront with,
     congregate, congregation, congress, congruous, connect, contest,
     convene, convenient, conventicle, convention, conventional,
     converge, convocation, convoke, cope, copulate, correct,
     correspond, council, couple, crack up, crash, crash into, cross,
     crowd, crump, crunch, customary, dance, dare, dash into, date,
     de rigueur, deal with, decathlon, decent, decorous, defensible,
     defray, defy, derby, deserved, desirable, diet, discipline,
     dispose of, ditto, do, do it, do justice to, double-header,
     doubles, due, echo, eisteddfod, embrace, emulate, encounter,
     endure, engagement, envisage, equal, equitable, even, evenhanded,
     event, expedient, experience, face, face the music, face up,
     face up to, face with, fair, fair and square, fall across,
     fall among, fall foul of, fall in with, fall upon, favorable,
     feasible, feel, felicitous, festivity, fete, field day, fight,
     fill, fill the bill, find, fit, fitten, fitting, flock together,
     flow together, focus, follow, forgather, forgathering, formal,
     fortunate, forum, foul, foursome, front, fructuous, fulfill,
     funnel, fuse, game, games, games of chance, gang around, gang up,
     gather, gather around, gathering, gear to, genteel, get by,
     get together with, get-together, go, go along with, go around,
     go by, go through, go with, good, grapple, gratify, greet,
     grow together, gymkhana, hack it, handle, hang together,
     happen upon, happy, harmonize, have, heed, herd together, hit,
     hit against, hive, hold, hold a meeting, hold a session, hold by,
     hold together, horde, housewarming, huddle, hurt, hurtle, impinge,
     intercommunicate, intersect, jockey, join, joust, just, just do,
     justifiable, justified, keep, keep faith with, knit, knock,
     knock against, know, labor under, lawful, lay before, league,
     legal, levee, level, light, light upon, likely, link, link up,
     liquidate, live up to, luck, lucky, make conform, make good,
     make the grade, mass, match, matching, measure up, meet and right,
     meet boldly, meet head-on, meet requirements, meet squarely,
     meet up with, meet with, meeting, merge, merited, mill, mold,
     muster, narrow the gap, nip, observe, open, opportune, oppose,
     orthodox, outvie, panel, party, pass, pass muster, pass through,
     pay, pentathlon, percuss, pinch, pitch upon, place before, play,
     play-off, plenum, politic, present to, profitable, prom, proper,
     propitious, providential, put it to, qualify, quorum, race, rally,
     rally around, reach, received, reception, recognized,
     recommendable, reconcile, reconciled, rectify, regard, regatta,
     rencontre, rendezvous, respect, right, right and proper, rightful,
     ripe, rival, rub off corners, run across, run into, run smack into,
     run the gauntlet, run together, run up against, run upon, runoff,
     salute, satisfy, seance, seasonable, see, seemly, seethe, serve,
     serve the purpose, session, set at defiance, set before, settle,
     shape, shindig, side with, sideswipe, singles, sit, sit-in,
     sitting, slam into, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up,
     soiree, sortable, speak out, speak up, spend, sport, square, stand,
     stand under, stand up, stand up to, stem, straighten, stream,
     stretch, strike, strike against, strike in with, stumble,
     stumble on, suffer, suffice, suit, suitable, summon, surge,
     sustain, swarm, symposium, synod, take care of, take it, take on,
     tally with, taper, taste, test, test one another, the Olympics,
     threesome, throng, tie, tilt, timely, to be desired, touch,
     tournament, tourney, track meet, traditional, trial, tumble,
     turnout, tussle, twosome, undergo, unite, urbane, useful, vie,
     vie with, warrantable, warranted, well-timed, whomp, wise, work,
     worthwhile, wrestle, yield
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Meet
       
          {greatest lower bound}
       
       

















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