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meet
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)
- To make contact (with) while in proximity.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- 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.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- (Of groups) To come together.
- 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.
- To come together in conflict.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- 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.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- (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.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (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.
- 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- 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...’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 28:
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)
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (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
- (informal) A meeting.
- (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)
- (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)
- The finish line in a competition
Etymology 2
Verb
meet
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of meten
- imperative of meten
Anagrams
- mete
Latin
Verb
meet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of me?
Middle English
Noun
meet
- Alternative form of mete (“food”)
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ready
English
Etymology
From Middle English redy, redi, rædi?, iredi, ?er?di, alteration ( +? -y) of earlier ir?d, irede, ?er?d (“ready, prepared”), from Old English r?de, ?er?de (also ?er?de) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *r?yd?-, *r?y- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reyd?- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?'di, IPA(key): /???.di/
- Homophone: reddy
- Rhymes: -?di
- Hyphenation: read?y
Adjective
ready (comparative readier, superlative readiest)
- Prepared for immediate action or use.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, journal to Stella
- she was told dinner was ready
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, journal to Stella
- Inclined; apt to happen.
- Liable at any moment.
- Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
- Synonyms: dexterous, prompt, easy, expert
- Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
- 1700, John Dryden, Theodore and Honoria
- A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.
- 1700, John Dryden, Theodore and Honoria
Synonyms
- good to go
Antonyms
- unready
Translations
Verb
ready (third-person singular simple present readies, present participle readying, simple past and past participle readied)
- (transitive) To prepare; to make ready for action.
Synonyms
- yark
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- foreready
- readily
- readiness
- ready-made
- ready-mixed
- ready-to-wear
Related terms
Translations
Noun
ready (countable and uncountable, plural readies)
- (slang) ready money; cash
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.
- 2008, Agnes Owens, The Group
- […] he was generous when he had the cash. Many a time he kept me going in drink through the week when I was stuck for the ready […]
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
Translations
Related terms
- already
Anagrams
- Yarde, dayer, deary, deray, rayed, yeard
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