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Meeting   /mˈitɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Meet  v. t.  (past & past part. met; pres. part. meeting)  
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.
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.
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. "His daughter came out to meet him."
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. "Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first."
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.
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.



Meet  v. t.  (past & past part. met; pres. part. meeting)  
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. "O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined!"
2.
To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict. "Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes."
3.
To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December. "They... appointed a day to meet together."
4.
To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.
To meet with.
(a)
To light upon; to find; to come to; often with the sense of unexpectedness. "We met with many things worthy of observation."
(b)
To join; to unite in company.
(c)
To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss.
(d)
To encounter; to be subjected to. "Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince."
(e)
To obviate. (Obs.)



noun
Meeting  n.  
1.
A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
2.
A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
3.
A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.
4.
An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
Synonyms: Conference; assembly; company; convention; congregation; junction; confluence; union.






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"Meeting" Quotes from Famous Books



... Briton always lives. There are advantages in this aloofness, but it certainly lacks the camaraderie, the jolly good-fellowship, of those picturesque auberges and osterie where twenty or thirty of one calling are gathered together under one roof, meeting daily at table, where artistic criticism is pungent and free, artistic assistance ungrudging, tales of artistic experience and adventure racy, the atmosphere stimulative to the spreading out of every artistic theory possible to the sane and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 • Various

... most places almost inaccessible. Overhead was the deep blue sky, so blue it was almost purple in its intensity, with not a cloud to break the monotony. Sky and desert, that was all, and these two Englishmen meeting, and the shadows cast by themselves and their horses, were the only spots of ...
— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt

... fever, or of rum, or of sunstroke. Two or three were killed in capturing a small Spanish ship. The only other events recorded, are the falls of rain, the direction of the wind, the sight of "watersnakes of divers colours," and the joyful meeting with Captain Cox, whom they had lost sight of, while close in shore one evening. They called at "Sir Francis Drake's isle" to strike a few tortoises, and to shoot some goats. Captain Sharp we read, here "showed himself very ingenious" in spearing turtle, ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield

... merriment. I recognised in Amroth a mirthful soul, full of humour and laughter, who could not be shocked by any truth, or hold anything uncomfortably sacred—though indeed he held all things sacred with a kind of eagerness that charmed me. Instead of meeting him in dolorous pietistic mood, I met him, I remember, as at school or college one suddenly met a frank, smiling, high-spirited youth or boy, who was ready at once to take comradeship for granted, and walked away with ...
— The Child of the Dawn • Arthur Christopher Benson

... naturalist's dredge is an improved oyster-dredge, with each of the two long sides of the mouth made into a scraping lip of iron. The body is made of spun-yarn, or fishing-line, netted into a small mesh. Two long triangles are attached by a hinge to the two short sides of the frame, and meeting in front, at some distance from the mouth, are connected by a swivel-joint. To this the dragging rope is bent, which must be three times as long, in dredging, as the depth of the water. This is fastened ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various


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