different between same vs meet

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /se?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m
• Homophone: Sejm

Etymology 1

From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or Old English same, sama (“same”) in the phrase sw? same (sw?) (“in like manner, in the same way (as)”), both from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”), from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”). Cognate with Scots samin (“same, like, together”), Dutch samen (“together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma (“same”), Norwegian Bokmål samme (“same”), Norwegian Nynorsk same (“same”), Gothic ???????????????? (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ???? (homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian ?????? (sámyj), Sanskrit ?? (samá), Persian ??? (ham, “also, same”).

Adjective

same (not comparable)

1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
2. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.

3. Similar, alike.
4. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.

5. A reply of confirmation of identity.
   • ca. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, scene III:

     King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?

     Kent: The same.[1]

   • 1994, Clerks:

     Dante: Whose house was it?

     Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.

     Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?

     Blue-Collar Man: The same. [2]

Usage notes

• This word is usually construed with the (except after demonstratives: "this same..." etc.). This can make it difficult to distinguish between the simple adjective and the adjective used absolutely or pronominally.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Pronoun

same

1. The identical thing, ditto.

2. Something similar, something of the identical type.

3. (formal, often law) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.

4. (India, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.

Usage notes

• This word is commonly used as the same.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

same

1. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.

Synonyms

• this, +1, like
• IAWTP

Etymology 2

From Middle English same, samme, samen, (also ysame, isame), from Old English samen (“together”), from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”). Cognate with Scots samin (“together”), Dutch samen (“together”), German zusammen (“together”), Swedish samman (“together”), Icelandic saman (“together”).

Adverb

same (comparative more same, superlative most same)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Together.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• AMEs, ASME, Ames, MSAE, Mesa, eams, mase, meas, meas., mesa, seam

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

same

1. equally

French

Adjective

same (plural sames)

1. Sami

Noun

same m or f (plural sames)

1. Sami

same m (uncountable)

1. Sami

Derived terms

• same d'Inari

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /same/

Verb

same

1. (transitive) to eat

Related terms

• seme

Japanese

Romanization

same

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samer, definite plural samene)

1. Sami; member of the Sami people

Synonyms

• lapp (derogatory)

Related terms

• samisk

References

• “same” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²s??m?/

Etymology 1

From Northern Sami sápmi.

Noun

same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samar, definite plural samane)

1. Sami; member of the Sami people

Synonyms

• lapp (derogatory)

Related terms

• samisk

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sami. Akin to English same.

Determiner

same

1. same

2. no matter

Derived terms

• med det same

References

• “same” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

same

1. vocative singular of sam?

Adjective

same

1. masculine/neuter locative singular of sama
2. masculine accusative plural of sama
3. feminine vocative singular of sama

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.m?/

Adjective

same

1. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sam

Swedish

Etymology

From Northern Sami Sámi, from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *?em? (“land”). More at Sápmi and Sami.

Noun

same c

1. Sami; person of the Sami people

Declension

Synonyms

• lapp (now often derogatory)

Related terms

• samiska

References

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”)