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Meeting vs Meting - What's the difference?

meeting | meting |

As verbs the difference between meeting and meting

is that meeting is present participle of lang=en while meting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between meeting and meting

is that meeting is the action of the verb to meet while meting is the act of one who metes.

meeting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
  • A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
    • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  • The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
    • What has the meeting decided.
  • An encounter between people, even accidental.
    • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  • A place or instance of junction or intersection.
    • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  • A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  • *1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
  • *:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

    • Derived terms

    * meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meeting

    Synonyms

    * assembly * convocation * gathering

    Descendants

    * Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)

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    meting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who metes.
  • * 1964 , William K. Bottorff, Twayne's United States Authors Series (volume 56, page 72)
    • We are far more apt to yawn than to weep as we make our way through this series of loosely connected incidents, of unmotivated actions, of contrived metings -out of justice.
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