different between meet vs efficient

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?t, IPA^(key): /mi?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mit/
• Rhymes: -i?t
• Homophones: meat, mete

Etymology 1

From Middle English meten, from Old English m?tan (“to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain”), from Proto-West Germanic *m?tijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *m?tijan? (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“to come, meet”).

Verb

meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)

1. To make contact (with) while in proximity.
   2. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
   3. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
   4. To get acquainted with someone.

      • Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

2. (Of groups) To come together.
   1. To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.

      • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

   2. To come together in conflict.
   3. (sports) To play a match.

3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
   1. To converge and finally touch or intersect.

      • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

   2. To touch or hit something while moving.

   3. To adjoin, be physically touching.

   4. (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.

      He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.

4. To satisfy; to comply with.
5. (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
   • 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.

6. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
7. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 28:

     ‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui...’

Usage notes

In the sense "come face to face with someone by arrangement", meet is sometimes used with the preposition with. Nonetheless, some state that as a transitive verb in the context "to come together by chance or arrangement", meet (as in meet (someone)) does not require a preposition between verb and object; the phrase meet with (someone) is deemed incorrect. See also meet with.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

meet (plural meets)

1. (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
2. (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
3. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

   Antonym: pass

4. (informal) A meeting.
5. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ?.

   Antonym: join

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ?em?te (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gam?tijaz, *m?tiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

Alternative forms

• mete (obsolete)

Adjective

meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)

1. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

Derived terms

• meetly
• meetness
• unmeet
• helpmeet

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “meet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• meet at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Teme, etem, mete, teem, teme

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?t/
• Hyphenation: meet
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Latin m?ta.

Noun

meet f (plural meten, diminutive meetje n)

1. The finish line in a competition

Etymology 2

Verb

meet

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of meten
2. imperative of meten

Anagrams

• mete

Latin

Verb

meet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of me?

Middle English

Noun

meet

1. Alternative form of mete (“food”)

English

Etymology

1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative effici?ns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f???nt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /??f???nt/
• Rhymes: -???nt

Adjective

efficient (comparative more efficient, superlative most efficient)

1. making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy

2. expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input

3. causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent)

   • It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.

4. (proscribed, old use) effective
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Ye wake no more to anguish;? ye have borne
     The Chosen, the Destroyer!? soon his hand
     Shall strike the efficient blow;
     Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye,
     With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves,
     Hymn the Deliverer’s praise!

   • 1856, William Dexter Wilson, An Elementary Treatise on Logic

     The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect

Usage notes

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary from 1913 still lists efficient and effective as synonyms, but all major dictionaries now show that these words now only have different meanings in careful use. Use of both for the other meaning is however widespread enough that Longman's Exam Dictionary, for example, finds it necessary to proscribe the use of one for the other with several examples at each entry and provides the following summary:

• efficient (“working quickly and without waste”)
• effective (“having the desired effect”)

Antonyms

• inefficient

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

efficient (plural efficients)

1. (obsolete) a cause; something that causes an effect
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.14:

     Some are without efficient, as God; others without matter, as Angels […].

   • a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity

     This implies, that something happens without a cause. If it should be said, that motive in this case is not the efficient of the action or doing — this is granted; but at the same time, for reasons already given, it is denied, that the man himself is the efficient cause of it.

References

Danish

Adjective

efficient

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Inflection

Further reading

• “efficient” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Latin effici?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.fi.sj??/
• Homophone: efficients

Adjective

efficient (feminine singular efficiente, masculine plural efficients, feminine plural efficientes)

1. efficient
2. effective

Related terms

• efficience

Further reading

• “efficient” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ef?fi.ki.ent/, [?f?f?ki?n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ef?fi.t??i.ent/, [?f?fi?t??i?n?t?]

Verb

efficient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of effici?