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(uncountable) Organized]], large-scale, armed conflict between [[country, countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
* 1917 , (Henry Ford), My Life and Work , Chapter 17:
* 2007 , Carlos Ramirez-Faria, Concise Encyclopaedia of World History :
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, title= (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
* 1865 , (Herman Melville), "The Surrender at Appomattox":
* 1999 , (Bill Clinton) at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, November 8 1999:
(countable) By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
# (figuratively) A campaign against something.
# (business, countable) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of war.
* Prior
(obsolete) Armed forces.
* Milton
(uncountable) A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
* 2004 , Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
* (William Shakespeare), King Henry V , act 3, sc. 1:
* 1882 , (George Bernard Shaw), Cashel Byron's Profession , ch. 14:
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
(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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#*: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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#*:Sir said Epynegrys is þt 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.
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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).
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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
War is a related term of meet.
As a proper noun war
is the personification of war, often depicted in armor, and riding a red horse.As a verb meet is
(lb) of individuals: to make personal contact .As a noun meet is
a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.As an adjective meet is
suitable; right; proper.war
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Alternative forms
* warre (obsolete)Noun
- Nobody can deny that war' is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. ' War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.
- Germany declared war' on France, who reciprocated, on August 3 [1939], and England declared ' war on Germany on August 4, when Belgium was already under invasion.
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
- All human tribes glad token see
- In the close of the wars of .
- A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war .
- The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
- The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
- In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
- I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war , getting my car for far less than it's worth.
- The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war , each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
- His complement of stores, and total war .
- On their embattled ranks the waves return, / And overwhelm their war .
- We played crazy eights, war , fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
Antonyms
* peaceDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * anti-war * civil war * cold war * conventional war * declaration of war * dynastic war * edit war * flame war * gas war * go to war * holy war * hot war * Hundred Years' War * inter-war * laws of war * man of war, man-of-war, man-o-war, man-o'-war * man-o'-war suit * nuclear war * perpetual war * pissing war * Portuguese man-of-war * post-war * pre-war * price war * prisoner of war, , PW * pro-war * proxy war * revert war * ship of war * spoils of war * state of war * theater of war, theatre of war * thumb war * total war * trade war * tug of war * turf war * undeclared war * war- * war between the sexes * war bond * war bonnet * war bride * War Cabinet * war chalk * war chest * war child * war crime * war criminal * war cry * war dance * war-dial * war-drive * warfare * war game, wargame * war groom * war hammer * warhead * war hound * warlord * war machine * warmonger * war of aggression * war of conquest * war of nerves * war of words * war paint, warpaint * war party * warpath * war reparations * war-ridden * warring * warrior * war room * war story * wartime * war to end all wars * war torn, war-torn * war veteran * war whoop * war widow * war zone * world war * World War One * World War TwoSee also
* battleVerb
(warr)- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more . . .
- Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
- And teach them how to war .
- This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
- To war the Scot, and borders to defend. — Daniel.
- That thou mightest war a good warfare. — Tim. i. 18.
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* * English terms derived from French ----meet
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
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.}}
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.