Compensate vs Meet - What's the difference?
compensate | meet |
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
(ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally]] or ([[metaphor, metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
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* Prior
To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
(lb) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
#(senseid)To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
#(lb) To French kiss someone.
(lb) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
#To gather for a formal or social discussion.
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#To come together in conflict.
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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:Weapons more violent, when next we meet , / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
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(lb) To make physical or perceptual contact.
#To converge and finally touch or intersect.
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To satisfy; to comply with.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
(rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)
A meeting.
(algebra) the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol (mnemonic: half an M)
(Irish) An act of French kissing someone
As verbs the difference between compensate and meet
is that compensate is to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration while meet is (lb) of individuals: to make personal contact .As a noun meet is
a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.As an adjective meet is
suitable; right; proper.compensate
English
Verb
(compensat)- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
- His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
- To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
- The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
- The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
- I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
- To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
Derived terms
* compensation * compensatory * recompense * recompensateSynonyms
1. To pay * guerdon * reimburse to pay back 2. To make up for, correct, satisfy, or equalize, to balance the scales, to equalize or make even.
* equate
* offset
* redeem
* accord
* reconcile
* harmonize
* atone
* indemnify
* requite
* rectify
* level
* resolve
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* amend
* expiate
* redress
* remedy
* remunerate
* appease
* restitute and restitution
3. To adjust to a change.
* acclimatize and acclimate
* accommodate
* accustom
* adapt
* accord
* counterbalance
* counteract
* integrate
* attune
External links
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
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Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Usage notes
In the sense "come face to face with someone by arrangement", meet'' is sometimes used with the preposition ''with in American English.Derived terms
* make ends meet * meet-and-greet * meet-cute * meet halfway * meet one's doom * meet one's maker * meet up * meet withNoun
(en noun)- OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.