meeting

meeting
    n 1: a formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will
         be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson" [syn:
         {meeting}, {group meeting}]
    2: a small informal social gathering; "there was an informal
       meeting in my living room" [syn: {meeting}, {get together}]
    3: a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their
       meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the
       hallway" [syn: {meeting}, {encounter}]
    4: the social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his
       meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"
       [syn: {meeting}, {coming together}]
    5: the act of joining together as one; "the merging of the two
       groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds"
       [syn: {merging}, {meeting}, {coming together}]
    6: a place where things merge or flow together (especially
       rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the
       Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: {confluence},
       {meeting}]
    

Meet \Meet\ (m[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Met} (m[e^]t); p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Meeting}.] [OE. meten, AS. m[=e]tan, fr. m[=o]t,
   gem[=o]t, a meeting; akin to OS. m[=o]tian to meet, Icel.
   maeta, Goth. gam[=o]tjan. See {Moot}, v. t.]
   1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact
      with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon
      or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact
      by following and overtaking.
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   2. To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to
      encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated
      them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
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   3. To come into the presence of without contact; to come
      close to; to intercept; to come within the perception,
      influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a
      junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to
      meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
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            His daughter came out to meet him.    --Judg. xi.
                                                  34.
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   4. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal
      acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye
      met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
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            Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,
            Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
                                                  --Pope.
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   5. To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to
      satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the
      supply meets the demand.
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   {To meet half way}, literally, to go half the distance
      between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to
      yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect
      a compromise or reconciliation with.
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Meeting \Meet"ing\ (m[=e]t"[i^]ng), n.
   1. A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of
      Congress.
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   2. A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the
      roads or of two rivers.
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   3. A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as,
      a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.
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   4. An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday;
      -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to
      the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
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   Syn: Conference; assembly; company; convention; congregation;
        junction; confluence; union.
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342 Moby Thesaurus words for "meeting":
      Mass, Olympic games, Olympics, accompanying, accordant,
      accumulated, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate,
      aggregation, agreeing, amassed, appointment, approach, approaching,
      appulse, articulation, assembled, assemblee, assembly, assignation,
      assignation house, associate, associated, asymptote, asymptotic,
      at home, at one with, audience, ball, bargaining,
      bargaining session, bedtime prayer, binding, bond, bottleneck,
      bout, bracketing, brawl, brunt, brushing, bulldozing, bulling,
      bump, bunched, bundled, camp meeting, cannon, carambole, carom,
      caucus, centripetal, centrolineal, church, church service, clash,
      clumped, clustered, clustering, coacting, coactive, coadunate,
      coincident, collaborative, collected, collective, collision,
      collision course, colloquium, collusive, combination, combinative,
      combined, combining, commission, committee, communication,
      competition, compline, concatenation, concentralization,
      concentration, concerted, conclave, concomitant, concordant,
      concours, concourse, concurrence, concurrent, concurring,
      concussion, confab, confabulation, conference, conflict,
      confluence, confluent, conflux, confocal, confrontation, congeries,
      conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregated,
      congregation, congress, conjoint, conjugation, conjunction,
      conjunctive, connecting, connection, connectional, connective,
      connivent, consilient, conspiratorial, consultation, contacting,
      contest, contingent, conventicle, convention, convergence,
      converging, convocation, cooperant, cooperative, coordinate,
      copulation, copulative, council, council fire, council of war,
      coupling, coworking, crack-up, crash, crossing, crump, crunch,
      cumulate, dance, date, derby, devotions, diet, discussion,
      divine service, duty, eisteddfod, encounter, engagement,
      evening devotions, evensong, exchange of views, exercises,
      eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, fascicled, fasciculated, festivity,
      fete, fight, focal, focalization, focus, forgathering, forum,
      funnel, game, games, gathered, gathering, get-together, glancing,
      glomerate, go, grazing, gymkhana, hammering, harmonious, heaped,
      high-level talk, hookup, housewarming, hub, huddle, impact,
      impingement, impingent, impinging, in contact, in session,
      interchange of views, intercommunicating, intercommunication,
      intercourse, interlinking, intersection, interview, joinder,
      joined, joining, joint, jointure, joust, junction, knotted,
      knotting, lauds, leagued, levee, liaison, linkage, linking,
      liturgy, love nest, lumped, marriage, massed, match, matching,
      matins, mauling, meet, meeting place, merger, merging, moot,
      morning devotions, mutual approach, mutually approaching,
      narrow squeak, narrowing gap, near thing, near-miss, negotiations,
      news conference, night song, none, nones, novena, nudging, office,
      onslaught, osculatory, packaged, pairing, palaver, panel,
      parasitic, parley, party, percussion, piled, place of assignation,
      plenum, pourparler, powwow, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting,
      prayers, press conference, prime, prime song, prom, public worship,
      quorum, radial, radiating, radius, rally, ramming, reception,
      rencontre, rendezvous, revival, revival meeting, rubbing,
      saprophytic, seance, service, session, sext, shindig, shock,
      sideswipe, sit-in, sitting, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up,
      smashing, soiree, splice, spokes, stacked, summit,
      summit conference, summitry, symbiosis, symbiotic, symposium,
      synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, synod, tangent,
      tangential, tent meeting, test, thrusting, tie, tie-in, tie-up,
      tierce, tilt, touching, tournament, tourney, trial, tryst, turnout,
      undersong, unification, union, united, uniting, vesper, vespers,
      vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, whomp,
      wrapped up, yoking