Happy vs Meet - What's the difference?
happy | meet | Synonyms |
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 144, xv,
* 1777 , (Alexander Pope), An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Argument of Epistle II'', in ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq , Volume III,
Favored by luck or fortune; lucky.
* 1661 , (Robert Boyle), (The Sceptical Chymist) , 2006, Elibron Classics (imprint),
Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
* 1761 , (Jonathan Swift), A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation'': Introduction, in ''The works of Dr Jonathan Swift , Volume VII,
Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
(As a suffix to a noun) favouring or inclined to use, as in trigger-happy.
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(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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#*: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
Happy is a synonym of meet.
As adjectives the difference between happy and meet
is that happy is experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous while meet is suitable; right; proper.As a verb meet is
(lb) of individuals: to make personal contact .As a noun meet is
a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.happy
English
Adjective
(er)- Happy' is that people, that is in such a case: yea, ' happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
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- The learn'd is happy' nature to explore, / The fool is ' happy that he knows no more ;
- Music makes me feel happy .
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- I may presume that what I have hitherto discoursed will induce you to think, that chymists have been much more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them; or in assigning the principles by which they may best be explained.
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- For instance, one lady can give an an?wer better than a?k a que?tion : one gentleman is happy at a reply ; another excels in a rejoinder : one can revive a langui?hing conver?ation by a ?udden ?urpri?ing ?entence ;.
- Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
- Are you happy with your internet service provider?
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Usage notes
* Said of expedients, efforts, ventures, omens, etc. * (experiencing the effect of favorable fortune) Said of people, hours, thoughts, times, etc.Synonyms
* (favored by luck) lucky, fortunate, prosperous, cheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, orgasmic SeeAntonyms
* sad * unhappy * unpleasant, displeasing, unenjoyableDerived terms
* happify * happily * happiness * happy as a lark * happy as a pig in shit * happy as Larry * happy bunny * happy chappy * happy-clappy * happy families * happy family * happy-go-lucky * happy hour * happy slapping * happy talk * slap-happy * trigger-happyStatistics
* 1000 English basic wordsmeet
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.