To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
To come together.
I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
To make physical or perceptual contact.
The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
track meet
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂...
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A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
Submissive; passive.