Meet vs Able - What's the difference?
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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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#To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
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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 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.
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To satisfy; to comply with.
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, title= 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.
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
(obsolete, passive) Easy to use.
* 1710 , Thomas Betterton, The life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent tragedian. :
(obsolete, passive) Suitable; competent.
* 2006 , Jon L. Wakelyn, America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents of Colonial and Revolutionary Era Governance, Volume 1 , Greenwood Publishing Group, pages 212:
(obsolete, dialectal, passive) Liable to.
Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
(obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
(obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
(legal) Legally]] [[qualify, qualified or competent.
(nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
(obsolete) To make ready.
(obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
(obsolete) To dress.
(obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
(obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.
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A word that is used in place of the letter "A" during communication.
Meet is a related term of able.
As verbs the difference between meet and able
is that meet is (lb) of individuals: to make personal contact while able is (obsolete) to make ready .As nouns the difference between meet and able
is that meet is a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming while able is a word that is used in place of the letter "a" during communication.As adjectives the difference between meet and able
is that meet is suitable; right; proper while able is (obsolete|passive) easy to use .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.
Antonyms
* (greatest lower bound) joinDerived terms
* cornfield meet (train collision) * dual meet * flying meet * meet cute * meet-up/meetup * swim meet * track meetEtymology 2
From (etyl) mete, imete, from (etyl) .References
* [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=meet&searchmode=none]Statistics
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English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) hableEtymology 1
From (etyl), from .Adjective
(er)- As the hands are the most habil parts of the body...
- ...and for every able man servant that he or she shall carry or send armed and provided as aforesaid, ninety acres of land of like measure.
- I’ll see you as soon as I’m able .
- With that obstacle removed, I am now able to proceed with my plan.
- I’m only able to visit you when I have other work here.
- That cliff is able to be climbed.
- After the past week of forced marches, only half the men are fully able .
- He was born to an able family.
- The chairman was also an able sailor.
- He is able to practice law in six states.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ability * -able * able-bodied * able seaman * ableism * be able, be able to * capable * disable * disabled * disablism * disability * enableVerb
(abl)- None does offend, none....I’ll able ’em.