met

For the verb: "to meet"

Simple Past:	met
Past Participle:	met

Multiple Entries:
  met    Met    meet    meta-  

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met/met/

past and past participle of meet1.

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Met/met/

▶abbreviation informal

• 1 meteorological.

• 2 metropolitan.

• 3 (the Met) [treated as sing. or pl.] the Metropolitan Police in London.

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meet1

▶verb (past and past part. met)

• 1 arrange or happen to come into the presence or company of.

  ■ make the acquaintance of (someone) for the first time.

  ■ come together as opponents in a competition.

• 2 experience (a situation or attitude).

  ■ (meet something with) have (a particular reaction) to something: the announcement was met with silence.

  ■ (meet with) receive (a particular reaction).

• 3 touch; join.

• 4 fulfil or satisfy (a requirement or condition).

  ■ pay (a required amount).

▶noun

• 1 Brit. a gathering of riders and hounds before a hunt begins.

• 2 an organized event at which a number of races or other sporting contests are held.

– phrases
meet the case Brit. be adequate.
meet someone's eye (or eyes)

• 1 be visible.

• 2 (also meet someone's gaze) look directly at someone.

meet someone halfway make a compromise with someone.

– origin OE mētan ‘come upon’, of Gmc origin.

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meet2

▶adjective archaic suitable or proper.

– derivatives
meetly adverb,
meetness noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘made to fit’): shortening of OE gemǣte, of Gmc origin; rel. to mete1.

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meta- /ˈmetə/ (also met- before a vowel or h)

▶combining form

• 1 denoting a change of position or condition: metamorphosis.

• 2 denoting position behind, after, or beyond: metacarpus.

• 3 denoting something of a higher or second-order kind: metalanguage.

• 4 Chemistry denoting substitution at two carbon atoms separated by one other in a benzene ring: metadichlorobenzene. Compare with ortho- and para-1.

– origin from Gk meta ‘with, across, or after’.