different between meeting vs obligation

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mit??/, [?mi???]
• Rhymes: -i?t??
• Homophone: meting

Etymology 1

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English m?ting, ?em?ting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet +? -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

Noun

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.

2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

   We need to have a meeting about that soon.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.

3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.

   What has the meeting decided.

4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

   They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

   Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

6. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 20:

     You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

Usage notes

• When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

Synonyms

• assembly
• convocation
• gathering

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English m?tende, *?em?tende, from Proto-Germanic *m?tijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *m?tijan? (“to meet”), equivalent to meet +? -ing.

Verb

meeting

1. present participle of meet

Anagrams

• teeming

Czech

Alternative forms

• mítink

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mi?t??k]

Noun

meeting m

1. meeting

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ti?/

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")

   un meeting aérien

   an air show

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi.tin?/, /?mi.tin/
• Hyphenation: mee?ting

Noun

meeting m (invariable)

1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)

   Synonym: riunione

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mítingue (prescriptive)

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /?mi.t?.?(?)/, [?mi.t?.?(?)]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.)

   Synonym: conferência

2. meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.)

   Synonym: encontro

3. meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.)

   Synonym: prova

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mitin/, [?mi.t??n]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. meeting

English

Etymology

From Middle English obligacioun, from Old French obligacion, from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley?- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b.l???e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

obligation (countable and uncountable, plural obligations)

1. The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
2. A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
3. A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
4. (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
   • 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

     The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "obligation": moral, legal, social, contractual, political, mutual, military, perpetual, etc.

Synonyms

• (the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone): commitment
• (requirement, duty, contract or promise): duty

Antonyms

• (requirement, duty, contract or promise): right

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from the verb oblig? (“tie together”).

Pronunciation

Noun

obligation f (plural obligations)

1. obligation

Related terms

• obliger

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

obligation

1. Alternative form of obligacioun