To vs Meet - What's the difference?
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(time) Preceding.
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Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
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(nautical) Into the wind.
(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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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 to and meet
is that to is thaw, weather conditions that make snow and ice melt 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.to
English
Alternative forms
* (dialectal) ter * (contraction) t' * (abbreviation)Particle
(en-part)- I want to leave.
- He asked me what to do.
- I don’t know how to say it.
- I have places to''' go and people '''to see.
- To' err is human, ' to forgive divine.
- To be, or not to be: that is the question: /
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- "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to , but it was closed."
- If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to .
Derived terms
* going to / gonna * got to / gotta * have to / hafta * ought to / oughta * supposed to / supposta * used to / usta * want to / wanna * fixing to / finnaPreposition
(English prepositions)- We are walking to the shop.
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- Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
- He devoted himself to education.
- They drank to his health.
- That is something to do.
- His face was beaten to a pulp.
- similar to''' ...'', ''relevant '''to''' ...'', ''pertinent '''to''' ...'', ''I was nice '''to''' him'', ''he was cruel '''to''' her'', ''I am used '''to walking.
- one to one = 1:1
- ten to one = 10:1.
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- Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
- Three to the power of two is nine.
- Three to the second is nine.
- I gave the book to him.
- ten to''' ten'' = 9:50; ''We're going to leave at ten '''to (the hour).
- Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
See also
* atAdverb
(-)- Please push the door to .
- He went in his room, pushed the door to , without fastening the latch.
Synonyms
* closed, shutAntonyms
* open, ajarSee also
* come to * heave to * lean-to * set-to * to and fro * (English Citations of "to")References
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8Statistics
*meet
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
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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.