meet

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /miːt/    美 /mit/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
    — track meet
  2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
  3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
  4. A meeting. informal
    — OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
动词 v.
  1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.; To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
    — Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
  2. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.; To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
    — Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
  3. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.; To get acquainted with someone.
    — I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
  4. To come together.; To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
    — I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
  5. To come together.; To come together in conflict.
    — Sir said Epynegrys is þᵗ the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy for here is for me And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan
  6. To come together.; To play a match.
    — England and Holland will meet in the final.
  7. To make physical or perceptual contact.; To converge and finally touch or intersect.
    — The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
  8. To make physical or perceptual contact.; To touch or hit something while moving.
    — The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
  9. To make physical or perceptual contact.; To adjoin, be physically touching.
    — The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
  10. To make physical or perceptual contact.; To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute. transitive
    — Carrados knew quite enough of flint implements—as indeed he seemed to know enough of any subject beneath the sun—to be able to talk on level terms with an expert, and he was quite equal to meeting a reference to Evans or to Nadaillac with another.
  11. To satisfy; to comply with.
    — This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
  12. To balance or come out correct. intransitive
    — 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet.
  13. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
    — The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
  14. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
    — ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’
形容词 adj.
  1. Suitable; right; proper. archaic
    — It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […]
  2. Submissive; passive. obsolete

词形变化

meets present,singular,third-person meeting participle,present met participle,past met past meets plural meeter comparative meetest superlative mete alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
bemeet boy meets girl countermeet counter-meet hail-fellow-well-met hail fellow well met have you met me make both ends meet make ends meet meetable meet and greet meet-and-greet meet a sticky end meetaversary meet cute meet-cute meetee meeten meet halfway meet me at McDonald's meet me at McDonald's haircut meet-meat merger meet-me room meet one's doom meet one's end meet one's maker meet one's match meet one's Waterloo meet someone where they are meet up meet with mismeet more than meets the eye never meet your heroes never the twain shall meet nice to meet you one should never meet one's heroes pleased to meet you remeet the rubber meets the road until we meet again watersmeet well met when two Sundays meet helpmeet meetly meetness unmeet

词源

词源 1
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
词源 2
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
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