different between meet vs expert

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

From Old French, from Latin expertus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ksp?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ksp??t/

Adjective

expert (comparative more expert, superlative most expert)

1. Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.

   I am expert at making a simple situation complex.

   My cousin is an expert pianist.

2. Characteristic of an expert.

   This problem requires expert knowledge.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:skillful

Antonyms

• inexpert
• nonexpert

Related terms

• expert system

Translations

Noun

expert (plural experts)

1. A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
   • If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. - David Ben-Gurion

2. (chess) A player ranking just below master.

Synonyms

• maven
• specialist

Hyponyms

• connoisseur

Translations

Further reading

• "expert" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 129.

Anagrams

• pretex, xerept

Catalan

Adjective

expert (feminine experta, masculine plural experts, feminine plural expertes)

1. expert

Noun

expert m (plural experts, feminine experta)

1. expert

   Synonym: perit

Further reading

• “expert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ksp?rt]

Noun

expert m

1. expert (person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject)

   Synonyms: odborník, znalec

Related terms

• expertní

Further reading

• expert in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• expert in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch expert, from Middle French expert, from Old French expert, from Latin expertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (chiefly Netherlands) /?k?sp??r/, (chiefly Belgium) /?k?sp?rt/
• Hyphenation: ex?pert
• Rhymes: -??r, -?rt

Noun

expert m (plural experts or experten, diminutive expertje n)

1. expert

Usage notes

The word can be pronounced in a way that corresponds with the spelling (common in Belgian-Dutch) or a way that corresponds to the French pronunciation (common in Netherland-Dutch). In the literal pronunciation, the plural is experten; in the French pronunciation, it is experts.

Synonyms

• deskundige

Related terms

• expertise

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ekspert
• ? Indonesian: eksper
• ? West Frisian: ekspert

French

Etymology

From Latin expertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??/

Adjective

expert (feminine singular experte, masculine plural experts, feminine plural expertes)

1. expert

Derived terms

• expertement
• expertise

Related terms

• inexpert

Noun

expert m (plural experts, feminine experte)

1. expert

Descendants

• ? Turkish: eksper

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From French expert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ks?p??t]
• Hyphenation: ex?pert

Adjective

expert (not comparable)

1. expert

Declension

Further reading

• “expert” in Duden online

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English expert. Doublet of esperto and experto.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??ks.p??t??/

Noun

expert m, f (plural experts)

1. expert (person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given field)

   Synonyms: especialista, perito, experto

Related terms

• expertise

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expert, Latin expertus.

Noun

expert m (plural exper?i, feminine equivalent expert?)

1. expert (person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given field)
2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

Declension

Synonyms

• (expert): specialist
• (wizard): asistent

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

expert c

1. expert

Declension

See also

• kännare
• sakkunnig

Related terms

• expertis

Derived terms

References

• expert in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)