Dictionary Definition
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]
Verb
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]
5 satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this
paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: fit, conform
to]
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]
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]met See meet
User Contributed Dictionary
Verb
metTranslations
past of "to meet"
Verb
metTranslations
past participle of "to meet"
Breton
Pronunciation
- /mɛd/
Conjunction
Dutch
Pronunciation
- /mεt/|lang=nl
- i Flemish /mε/|lang=nl
Preposition
Related terms
Derived terms
Faroese
Pronunciation
- /meːt/
Noun
met nDeclension
Derived terms
- heimsmet (world record)
- metár (record year), metsølubók (bestseller), mettíð (record time)
Finnish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: met
- lang=fi|[met]
Pronoun
met- In the context of "personal|dialectal|lang=fi": we.
French
Homophones
metsIcelandic
Pronunciation
- /meːt/
Noun
met- a record
Derived terms
- heimsmet (a world record)
- metár (record year),
- metsölubók (a bestseller)
- mettími (record time)
- slá met
Latin
Suffix
-met- see -met
See also
Slovene
Noun
- throw (flight of a thrown object)
Turkish
Noun
met (pl.'', metler)Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Met or MET may refer to:
- Muslim Educational Trust
- Metropolitan Police Service, the Home Office (territorial) police force responsible for Greater London, England
- Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, New York
- Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York
- MET ART, an erotic website
- Metlink, the metropolitan public transport network in Melbourne, Australia
- Metabolic equivalent, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise
- Methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine
- Methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid
- Mind's Eye Theatre, a live action role-playing game
- Mechanical engineering technology, a technical field of study and practice
- Met, a common enemy in the Mega Man video game series
- Met, a term for the New York Mets baseball team, referring to both players and fans
- Met, unit used is describing Thermal comfort
- Met, one of the three towers in the Metropolitan Miami complex in Miami, Florida
- Met, short form describing the genetic disorder Hypermethioninemia
- Met, a mathematic term describing the category of metric spaces with metric maps
- Met, the short name for the Nash Metropolitan
- MET, Middle European Time aka CET, Central European Time
- MET, the NYSE ticker symbol for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
- MET Matrix, an environmental analysis tool to evaluate the materials, energy, and toxic emissions of a product.
- MET, the gene symbol for hepatocyte growth factor receptor
See also
met in German: Met (Begriffsklärung)
met in Spanish: Met
met in Esperanto: MET
met in French: MET
met in Italian: MET
met in Japanese: MET
met in Polish: MET