(v. t.) To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
(v. t.) To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
(v. t.) To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
(v. t.) To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
(v. t.) To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand.
(v. t.) To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.
(v. t.) To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.
(v. t.) To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.
(v. t.) To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.
(n.) An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.
(1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(2) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(3) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(4) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(5) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(6) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(7) Amid the passionate discussion at the NDA meeting, the two women began to develop a plan.
(8) He was very touched that President Nicolas Sarkozy came out to the airport to meet us, even after Madiba retired.
(9) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(10) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
(11) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(12) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(13) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(14) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(15) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(16) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(17) In Study 1, the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) was administered to samples of patients meeting Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for schizodepressive disorder, major depressive disorder or schizophrenia, and to a normal control group.
(18) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(19) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(20) The UN should "be able to meet a much higher standard in fulfilling its protection and humanitarian responsibilities", it says.
Rendezvous
Definition:
(n.) A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
(n.) Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
(n.) A meeting by appointment.
(n.) Retreat; refuge.
(v. i.) To assemble or meet at a particular place.
(v. t.) To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.
Example Sentences:
(1) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
(2) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
(3) And with an A-list rendezvous just a three-digit credit card security number away, no wonder fan expectations have increased.
(4) Her blog was gaining a growing following, and she gave an interview by email to CNN and agreed to talk in person to the Guardian's correspondent in Damascus, though she did not show up to that meeting, as is not uncommon for activists in the city, saying she had seen secret police at the rendezvous cafe.
(5) They also were great at showing how dangerous this "final frontier" of outer space was, as in this episode where two crew members arrive early in their shuttle to a rendezvous with the Enterprise, only to find evidence that the ship has been destroyed and they are totally alone.
(6) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(7) The story of the Trump dossier: secret sources, an airport rendezvous, and John McCain Read more Coming just nine days before he enters the White House as the 45th president of the United States, Trump staged his first encounter with the world’s media since last July, admitting that he had actively avoided subjecting himself to press scrutiny in recent months on the grounds that we had been “getting quite a bit of inaccurate news”.
(8) Jaguar: 'Rendezvous' (starts at 01:18) - US Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong are all appearing as "British villains" in a commercial designed to emphasise Jaguar's movie heritage.
(9) Even in their undiluted misery back home in France and Italy, it would take a footballing spoilsport of the highest order not to want to cast an eye over the rendezvous between Argentina and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg this evening.
(10) Katsu Naito's book West Side Rendezvous is out now.
(11) There were bacon rolls at £5.75 each according to the menu, and granola with yoghurt (£5.25) on the table at the Delaunay restaurant on the Aldwych – a rendezvous frequented by London's business and media elite – for the meeting which was chaired by the editor of the Times, James Harding.
(12) China is the third country after the United States and Russia to complete space rendezvous and docking procedures, Xinhua said.
(13) Ambulance rescue systems are of two types: the stationary, in which the physician travels with the ambulance, and the rendezvous, in which the physician and ambulance, travelling separately, meet at the accident site.
(14) On Sunday, the Greeks have a rendezvous with history.
(15) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
(16) He says that he and his son were watching a baseball game in the US on 29 August, a date suggested for the secret rendezvous.
(17) The results of this investigation reveal that the prehospital treatment of cardiac arrest in Odense can be improved by participation of a doctor in the treatment, (particularly the rendezvous model).
(18) One bonus was that the kidnapped families had been left their cars, so a rendezvous outside Garara Qataf was arranged.
(19) The rendezvous in Ankara was beset by further uncertainty.
(20) The "rendezvous procedure" combines percutaneous transhepatic and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.