Ideal vs Meet - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ideal and meet

is that ideal is ideal (perfect standard) while meet is a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.

As a verb meet is

(lb) of individuals: to make personal contact .

As an adjective meet is

suitable; right; proper.

ideal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Optimal; being the best possibility.

Perfect, flawless, having no defects.

* Rambler

There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.

Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.

Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.

* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 256:

The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —

* 1818 , ,^{[[s:Frankenstein/Chapter 4, Chapter 4],}

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.

the ideal theory or philosophy

(mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.

ideal point

An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(en noun)

A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny -

(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty]] lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is [[closure, closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).^{[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_prime_ideal_theorem#Prime_ideal_theorems]}

If (1) the empty set were called a "small" set, and (2) any subset of a "small" set were also a "small" set, and (3) the union of any pair of "small" sets were also a "small" set, then the set of all "small" sets would form an ideal .

(for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.

Let

\mathbb{Z}

be the ring of integers and let

2\mathbb{Z}

be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring

\mathbb{Z} / 2\mathbb{Z}

is a Boolean ring.

The product of two ideals

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

is an ideal

\mathfrak{a b}

which is a subset of the intersection of

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

. This should help to understand why maximal ideals' are prime ' ideals . Likewise, the union of

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

is a subset of

\mathfrak{a + b}

Antonyms

* (order theory) filter

Derived terms

* left ideal * right ideal * two-sided ideal * principal ideal

External links

* (wikipedia)

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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.

, 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.

#*: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.

#*: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 þ^t 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.

(lb) To make physical or perceptual contact.

#To converge and finally touch or intersect.

#*: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.

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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Ideal vs Meet - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ideal and meet

As a verb meet is

As an adjective meet is

ideal

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