Verb

(lb) Of individuals: to make personal contact.

#(senseid)To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

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#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.

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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 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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#To touch or hit something while moving.

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#To adjoin, be physically touching.

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To satisfy; to comply with.

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To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.

Verb

To match, fit together without space between.

The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.

To copulate.

To pair in order to raise offspring

To arrange in matched pairs.

To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.

To marry; to match (a person).

* Shakespeare

If she be mated with an equal husband.

To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.

* Francis Bacon

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.

* Shakespeare

I, / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.

To fit (objects) together without space between.

(aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.

Verb

To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate

To confuse; to confound.

(Shakespeare)