different between meet vs prompt

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 French prompt, from Latin pr?mptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of pr?m? (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from pr? (“forth, forward”) + em? (“to take, acquire, buy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??mpt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??mpt/
• Rhymes: -?mpt

Adjective

prompt (comparative more prompt, superlative most prompt)

1. Quick; acting without delay.

2. On time; punctual.

3. (archaic) Ready; willing to act.

Synonyms

• (acting without delay): hasty; see also Thesaurus:prompt
• (on time): timely; see also Thesaurus:punctual
• (willing to act): good to go, yare

Derived terms

• prompt critical
• prompt criticality
• promptness
• prompt neutron
• promptly

Translations

Noun

prompt (plural prompts)

1. A reminder or cue.
2. (business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.

   • To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months.

3. (computing) A sequence of characters that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input.

   I filled in my name where the prompt appeared on the computer screen but my account wasn't recognized.

4. (writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.

Translations

Verb

prompt (third-person singular simple present prompts, present participle prompting, simple past and past participle prompted)

1. (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.

   I prompted him to get a new job.

2. (transitive, theater and television) To show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

   If he forgets his words I will prompt him.

3. (transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.
   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:

     On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:advise

Derived terms

• prompter

Translations

Further reading

• prompt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prompt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• prompt at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?mpt/
• Hyphenation: prompt
• Rhymes: -?mpt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French prompt, from Latin pr?mptus.

Adverb

prompt

1. immediately, promptly

   Synonym: meteen

Adjective

prompt (not comparable)

1. quick, immediate

Inflection

Derived terms

• pront

Related terms

• pronto

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English prompt, from Middle French prompt, from Latin pr?mptus.

Noun

prompt m (plural prompts)

1. (computing) prompt

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin promptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/, /p???t/, /p???pt/

Adjective

prompt (feminine singular prompte, masculine plural prompts, feminine plural promptes)

1. prompt, swift, quick
2. (Louisiana) curt

Derived terms

• prompt rétablissement

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Latin pr?mptus, past participle of pr?m? (“I take, bring out, produce, bring to light”).

Adjective

prompt m

1. (Jersey) hasty

Derived terms

• promptément (“hastily”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• prompte

Etymology

From French prompt, from Latin promptus, from promere (“bring out”)

Adverb

prompt

1. quickly and punctually; promptly

Adjective

prompt (singular and plural prompt, comparative mer prompt, superlative mest prompt)

1. quick and punctual; prompt

References

• “prompt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “prompt” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Romanian

Etymology

From French prompt, from Latin promptus.

Adjective

prompt m or n (feminine singular prompt?, masculine plural promp?i, feminine and neuter plural prompte)

1. prompt

Declension