What's the difference between meeting and tryst?

Meeting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meet
  • (n.) A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
  • (n.) A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
  • (n.) A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.
  • (n.) An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Tryst


Definition:

  • (n.) Trust.
  • (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.
  • (n.) To trust.
  • (n.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.
  • (v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) RTL said Trierweiler had let it be known that she had not had a "nervous breakdown" when Hollande confessed to his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, 41, hours before Closer magazine published its "special edition" claiming Hollande had been secretly leaving the Elysée Palace for secret trysts with the actor.
  • (2) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
  • (3) Abroad, he had perhaps been best known for his furtive motorcycle tryst with his actor lover, Julie Gayet, and his messy, public breakup with his First Lady, Valérie Trierweiler.
  • (4) Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" – easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons.
  • (5) She admitted the couple had become "detached" but said the revelations in Closer magazine that Hollande 59, had been leaving the Elysée for secret trysts with Julie Gayet, 41, had come as a complete shock.
  • (6) Where does Wickham have a tryst with Georgiana Darcy?
  • (7) Could he guarantee his security was not compromised during his clandestine trysts with Gayet?
  • (8) Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the allegations is the question of whether Hollande's trysts with what one newspaper waggishly called France's "second lady" have been funded out of the public purse.
  • (9) The first question he was asked after his long and detailed address, was whether Valérie Trierweiler was still first lady, after claims by Closer magazine that he had been enjoying secret trysts with Julie Gayet at an apartment just a stone's throw from the Elysée Palace.
  • (10) She was my first not-really-straight girl tryst, but she would not be my last.
  • (11) No one here cared much about his trysts with Gayet or his bad behaviour towards Trierweiller but people do care about this.
  • (12) It's licensed, so if a hair of the dog's your thing, try some locally brewed ale, including one from Stewart Brewing and one from Falkirk's Tryst.
  • (13) Described on his own website as a "poacher and gamekeeper" who has "helped save many a famous career from media damage and destruction", Clifford looked on helpless from the court dock as his own hard-built reputation was shattered by increasingly sordid stories about his secret trysts and bizarre obsession with the size of his penis.
  • (14) You’d be hard-pushed to claim there was anything profound going on in either work, but Green found a way of infusing his tryst with Mary-Jane with the auteurship of old in 2013’s more sombre Prince Avalanche : its tale of two road-marking painters retained the loopy conversation and spacey rhythms.
  • (15) Kushner then had a videotape of the tryst sent to his sister.
  • (16) Edinburgh zoo's two pandas are close to beginning their second tryst, after the zoo announced that their short-lived breeding season could start within hours.
  • (17) There's no suggestion in the coverage that Delevingne's relationship is taboo It is true that there has been some old-style titillating coverage concerning Delevingne and Clark – the Mirror and Mail reported on a supposed mile-high tryst (“they both snuck into a cubicle together … fifteen minutes later they reappeared looking pretty dishevelled”).
  • (18) The revelation that her partner had been sneaking out of the Elysée to make the 165-metre journey to a flat in a nearby street for secret trysts with Gayet, hit Trierweiler like "a TGV hitting the buffers".
  • (19) After a few Mills & Boon-like reluctant trysts, Gigi would tearfully admit to her father that she had fallen for her handsome prince and they would split the dosh, perhaps spending her half on an island to be used exclusively for lezzers, their quad bikes and tattoo parlours.
  • (20) A lmost exactly two years after their fateful tryst in the Downing Street rose garden, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are sick and tired of people likening their coalition knee-trembler to a marriage.