Convene vs Meeting - What's the difference?
convene | meeting |
To come together; to meet; to unite.
* Isaac Newton
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
* Sir R. Baker
* Thomson
To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
To summon judicially to meet or appear.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
*1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
*:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
As verbs the difference between convene and meeting
is that convene is to come together; to meet; to unite while meeting is .As a noun meeting is
(uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .convene
English
Verb
(conven)- In short-sighted men the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
- The Parliament of Scotland now convened .
- Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene .
Synonyms
* to meet * to assemble * to congregate * to collect * to unite * to summon * to convokeDerived terms
* convention * convener, convenormeeting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.