rendezvous

rendezvous
    n 1: a meeting planned at a certain time and place
    2: a place where people meet; "he was waiting for them at the
       rendezvous"
    3: a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex [syn:
       {tryst}, {rendezvous}]
    v 1: meet at a rendezvous
    

Rendezvous \Ren"dez*vous\ (r[e^]n"d[e^]*v[=oo] or r[aum]N"-;
   277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rendezvoused} (-v[=oo]d); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Rendezvousing} (-v[=oo]*[i^]ng).]
   To assemble or meet at a particular place.
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Rendezvous \Ren"dez*vous\, v. t.
   To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be
   assembled. --Echard.
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Rendezvous \Ren"dez*vous\ (r?n"d?*v[=oo] or {r?n}"-; 277), n.;
   pl. {Rendezvouses} (r?n"d?-v[=oo]`z?z).

   Note: [Rare in the plural.] [F. rendez-vous, properly, render
         yourselves, repair to a place. See {Render}.]
   1. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons
      customarily meet.
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            An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.
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   2. Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the
      ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for
      enlistment.
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            The king appointed his whole army to be drawn
            together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
                                                  --Clarendon.
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   3. A meeting by appointment. --Sprat.
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   4. Retreat; refuge. [Obs.] --Shak.
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rendezvous

   1. In {Ada}, the method of synchronising the activity of
   different tasks.

   2. Query language, close to natural English.

   ["Seven Steps to Rendezvous with the Casual User", E. Codd in
   Data Base Management, J.W.  Klimbie et al eds, N-H 1974,
   pp.179-199].
    

RENDEZVOUS. A place appointed for meeting. 
     2. Among seamen it is usual when vessels sail under convoy, to have a 
rendezvous in case of dispersion by storm, an enemy, or other accident, 
     3. The place where military men meet and lodge, is also called a 
rendezvous. 
    

96 Moby Thesaurus words for "rendezvous":
      appointment, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation,
      assignation house, at home, ball, brawl, bunch, bunch up, caucus,
      clot, cluster, collect, colloquium, come together, commission,
      committee, conclave, concourse, congregate, congregation, congress,
      conventicle, convention, converge, convocation, copulate, council,
      couple, crowd, dance, date, diet, eisteddfod, festivity, fete,
      flock together, flow together, forgather, forgathering, forum,
      fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gathering,
      get-together, hangout, haunt, herd together, hive, horde,
      housewarming, huddle, league, levee, link, love nest, mass, meet,
      meeting, meeting place, merge, mill, muster, panel, party,
      place of assignation, plenum, prom, purlieu, quorum, raise, rally,
      rally around, reception, seance, seethe, session, shindig, sit-in,
      sitting, soiree, stamping, stream, surge, swarm, symposium, synod,
      throng, tryst, turnout, unite