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discuss | meet |

As verbs the difference between discuss and meet

is that discuss is (obsolete|transitive) to drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors 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.

discuss

Verb

  • (obsolete) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.i:
  • For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust , / And meet respect of honour put to flight
  • * Rambler
  • a pomade of virtue to discuss pimples
  • * Sir H. Wotton
  • Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.
  • To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
  • Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.
    I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.
  • (obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
  • * , Merry Wives of Windsor , act 1, sc. 3:
  • Nym : I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
  • * , Henry V , act 4, sc. 1:
  • Pistol : Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?
  • To break to pieces; to shatter.
  • To deal with, in eating or drinking.
  • * Sir S. Baker
  • We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.
  • To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
  • Synonyms

    * (converse about a topic) betalk, debate, talk about

    Derived terms

    * discussant * discusser * discussion * discuss to death * discuss Uganda

    See also

    * argue

    meet

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Verb

  • (lb) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
  • #(senseid)To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
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  • #*
  • , passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away
  • #To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
  • #To be introduced to someone.
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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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  • #*
  • #*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • #To come together in conflict.
  • #*:
  • #*:Sir said Epynegrys is þt the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll / As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy / for here is for me / And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan
  • #*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • #*:Weapons more violent, when next we meet , / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches
  • #(lb) To play a match.
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  • (lb) To make physical or perceptual contact.
  • #To converge and finally touch or intersect.
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  • #*
  • #*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner (might do).
  • #To touch or hit something while moving.
  • #:
  • #To adjoin, be physically touching.
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  • To satisfy; to comply with.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
  • 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 with

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
  • (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
  • Antonyms
    * (greatest lower bound) join
    Derived terms
    * cornfield meet (train collision) * dual meet * flying meet * meet cute * meet-up/meetup * swim meet * track meet

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mete, imete, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • suitable; right; proper
  • * (English Citations of "meet")

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=meet&searchmode=none]

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