meeting
part of speech
noun (a meeting, meetings); verb, -ing form of meet (meet, meets, met, meeting)
meaning for a pupil
1) A meeting is when people come together to talk about something, plan or decide. tree →
2) Meeting is the -ing form of meet: coming together with someone. tree →
3) A meeting is also the moment people meet: «our first meeting». tree →
4) (formal) A sports event: «an athletics meeting» (UK). tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in school (parents' meeting, class meeting), work and everyday life. Phrases: «have a meeting», «in a meeting», «meeting point», «meeting place». Safety: agree a meeting point in case you get lost.
examples
- The teachers have a meeting after school. tree →
- Mum is in a meeting and can't talk. tree →
- I'm meeting my friend at the park. tree →
- If we get separated, the meeting point is the gate. tree →
- Their first meeting was at the library. tree →
- The school council meeting is on Fridays. tree →
- Oh, what a happy meeting it was! tree →
note
Countable as a noun. Verb is irregular: meet, met, met. In maths, «meeting» problems ask when two moving people meet: if they walk towards each other, add their speeds.
In the corpora
- A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.
- RABBIT", and Alice goes in without knocking and hurries upstairs, afraid of meeting the real Mary Ann and being turned out.
- The doubles are not mistakes; they are the end of the prefix meeting the start of the word.
- "Freshen up" usually means go to the toilet and wash, often before a meal or meeting.
- "Working towards" on a UK report means not yet meeting the expected standard.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «meeting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.