meet
part of speech
verb (meet, meets, met, meeting); noun (a meet, meets — a sports event)
meaning for a pupil
1) To meet is to come together with someone at the same place. tree →
2) To meet someone is also to see them and get to know them for the first time. tree →
3) Lines, roads or rivers meet where they join. tree →
4) To meet a need or a goal is to reach it. tree →
5) A meet is a sports event, like a swim meet. tree →
sense in the lessons
people or trains coming together; two moving things that meet after some time; a club or group meets when it gathers; in geometry two lines meet at a point; phrases «meet up», «nice to meet you», «meet the target», «swim meet», «track meet»
examples
- They meet at the park at 3 o'clock. tree →
- Two trains start 300 km apart and meet. tree →
- The club meets 4 times a month. tree →
- How many times does it meet in a year? tree →
- Nice to meet you, I'm Maya. tree →
- The two sides of a triangle meet at a corner. tree →
- Our class met its goal of reading 500 books. tree →
- Jack won two ribbons at the swim meet. tree →
- Meet here beneath this ash-tree's roots. tree →
note
Moving toward each other to meet: add the speeds. Meetings per month is a rate. Trap: things moving apart also add speeds, things in the same direction subtract. Past form is «met», not «meeted». Do not mix up meet with meat (food).
In the corpora
- Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.
- Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals.
- A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.
- What you type or upload may be stored by a company you have never met.
- You are a small model, so you will often meet things you don't know, and sometimes you will be wrong.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «meet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.