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# meet

«meet» in Mova's school dictionary: **to come together with someone at the same place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (meet, meets, met, meeting); noun (a meet, meets — a sports event)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To meet is to come together with someone at the same place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#m1)

2) To meet someone is also to see them and get to know them for the first time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#m2)

3) Lines, roads or rivers meet where they join. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#m3)

4) To meet a need or a goal is to reach it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#m4)

5) A meet is a sports event, like a swim meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

people or trains coming together; two moving things that meet after some time; a club or group meets when it gathers; in geometry two lines meet at a point; phrases «meet up», «nice to meet you», «meet the target», «swim meet», «track meet»

### examples

- They meet at the park at 3 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x1)
- Two trains start 300 km apart and meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x2)
- The club meets 4 times a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x3)
- How many times does it meet in a year? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x4)
- Nice to meet you, I'm Maya. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x5)
- The two sides of a triangle meet at a corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x6)
- Our class met its goal of reading 500 books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x7)
- Jack won two ribbons at the swim meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x8)
- Meet here beneath this ash-tree's roots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/#x9)

### note

Moving toward each other to meet: add the speeds. Meetings per month is a rate. Trap: things moving apart also add speeds, things in the same direction subtract. Past form is «met», not «meeted». Do not mix up meet with meat (food).

### In the corpora

- [Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/9/)
- [Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/12/)
- [A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/12/)
- [What you type or upload may be stored by a company you have never met.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/1/)
- [You are a small model, so you will often meet things you don't know, and sometimes you will be wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.