Huddle vs Meet - What's the difference?
huddle | meet |
a dense and disorderly crowd
(American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
To get together and discuss.
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
(American football) To form a huddle.
To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
* (John Locke)
To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).
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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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#*(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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*: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 nouns the difference between huddle and meet
is that huddle is a dense and disorderly crowd while meet is a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.As verbs the difference between huddle and meet
is that huddle is to crowd together as when distressed or in fear while meet is Of individuals: to make personal contact.As an adjective meet is
suitable; right; proper.huddle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(huddl)- During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
- George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
- Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.
- Huddle up a peace.
- Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
- Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
meet
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.
