meet

English

/miːt/, /mit/

verb
Definitions
  • (Of groups)
  • To satisfy; to comply with.
  • (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
  • 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English meten (dream, see in a sweven) inherited from Old English mētan (meet, encounter, fall in with, find out, obtain, find) inherited from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (meet) derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (wet, meet, fat, come, drip, encounter, ooze, grease, well-fed, glossy, dripping, approach, be wet).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*meh₂d-

Gloss

wet, meet, fat, come, drip, encounter, ooze, grease, well-fed, glossy, dripping, approach, be wet

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Property

Kanji

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Emoji
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