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meeting

ˈmitɪŋ
WordNet
Meeting of Joachim and Anna
Meeting of Joachim and Anna
  1. (n) meeting
    the act of joining together as one "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly","there was no meeting of minds"
  2. (n) meeting
    the social act of assembling for some common purpose "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"
  3. (n) meeting
    a casual or unexpected convergence "he still remembers their meeting in Paris","there was a brief encounter in the hallway"
  4. (n) meeting
    a formally arranged gathering "next year the meeting will be in Chicago","the meeting elected a chairperson"
  5. (n) meeting
    a small informal social gathering "there was an informal meeting in my living room"
  6. (n) meeting
    a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"
Illustrations
Assembly for the Passion Plays at Oberammergau, depicting the meeting of the Sanhedrin, where Judas receives thirty shekels
Joachim and Anna stand slightly diagonally opposite each other as a closed group; Joachim with the left leg forward, the upper body towards her, Anna resting on the left leg and the right side for a moment. He has put both arms around Anna's shoulders for a hug, she tilts her head towards him to receive the kiss, while she supports his left elbow with her right hand and has placed the other confidentially on his back. Wrinkles on Joachim's forehead, near his eyes and mouth, as well as on the neck, indicate his advanced age. He wears a high cap on the flowing hair and a tabard, which is lined and trimmed with fur. Anna's dress is also lined with fur. She is wearing an old-fashioned headscarf with a frilled edge, over which a cloth is folded, which is held together under the chin with a pin.
Joachim and Anna's meeting
Mountainous landscape with the meeting of Jacob and Esau with their families and retinue. On the left a shepherd boy with sheep.
The meeting of Jacob and Esau
Four scenes from the legend of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary. Scenes of a farewell or meeting at a gate, a banquet with musicians, her wedding to Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. At the bottom right, Saint Elisabeth says goodbye to a woman (her mother?) At the city gate of Presburg, after which she sets off in a carriage. At the bottom left a kneeling founder with a rosary.
Four scenes from the legend of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary
Photo reproduction of a painting, depicting Macbeth and Banquo meeting the three witches
The meeting of David and Abigail. David comes out of a forest on horseback, accompanied by his soldiers. Abigail, followed by a procession of servants with gifts, kneels on the ground before him.
The meeting between David and Abigail
The meeting of the Gauls at Reims. In a room a group of men are talking to each other. Eighth representation in a series of twelve scenes of the revolt of the Batavians against the Romans (SK-A-421/432), bought by the States General in 1613.
The meeting of the Gauls at Reims
The meeting of David and Abigail. Abigail kneels before David and offers him food and drink. Around this soldiers of David and other spectators. On the right a man leaning on a donkey and a woman on a camel. To the left between the soldiers, the painter painted a self-portrait. Copy after a painting attributed to Maerten de Vos or Frans Pourbus I.
The meeting of David and Abigail
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Including the 2000 World Series, there have been only three meetings between teams from the same city: 1906 (Cubs vs. White Sox), 1944 (Cardinals vs. Browns) and 2000 (Mets vs. Yankees).
  1. Meeting
    A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
  2. Meeting
    A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
  3. Meeting
    An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
  1. (n) meeting
    A coming together; an interview: as, a happy meeting of friends.
  2. (n) meeting
    An assembly; a congregation; a collection of people; a convention: as, a social, religious, or political meeting; the meeting adjourned till the next day: applied in the United States, especially in rural districts, to any assemblage for religious worship, and in England and Ireland to one of dissenters from the established church; specifically, an assembly of Friends for religious purposes: as, to go to meeting.
  3. (n) meeting
    A conflux, as of rivers; a confluence; a joining, as of lines; junction; union.
  4. (n) meeting
    A hostile encounter; a duel.
  5. (n) meeting
    plural In mining, the point in a mine-shaft where the ascending and descending cages meet. When the coal was raised in creels or corves the shaft was bulged at the meetings.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The 1987 film "Hot Rod Harlots" was promoted with this tag line: "Unwed! Untamed! Unleaded! Backseat Bimbos meet their Roadside Romeos."
  1. (ns) Meeting
    a coming face to face for friendly or hostile ends: an interview: an assembly: a crossing of two roads: a junction of two rivers
Quotations
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverb
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
Dr. John G. Hibben
We have meet the enemy; and he is us.
Walt Kelly
You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.
Ed Macauley
John Gay
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
Idioms

Both ends meet - If you make both ends meet, you live off the money you earn and don't go into debt.

Make ends meet - If somebody finds it hard to make ends meet, they have problems living on the money they earn.

Meet someone halfway - If you meet someone halfway, you accept some of their ideas and make concessions.

Meet your expectations - If something doesn't meet your expectations, it means that it wasn't as good as you had thought it was going to be; a disappointment.

Meet your Maker - If someone has gone to meet their Maker, they have died.

Meet your match - If you meet your match, you meet a person who is at least as good if not better than you are at something.

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. métan, to meet—mót, ge-mót, a meeting.

Usage in the news

After meeting the wife of Major Pete Cruz in his meet-and-greet line, patriotic Toby Keith brought the young lady to the stage at his Sept 8 show in Houston. countryweekly.com

A few years ago, she was working in the meeting-planning department at American Express, handling big meetings and big budgets for Johnson & Johnson Co. meetingsnet.com

In an email, Tusk has more to say about the meetings those meetings. observer.com

EAST LIVERPOOL — Comments made at Monday night's school board meeting about the city police department raised the ire of Chief John Lane, who responded Tuesday to a newspaper account of the meeting. morningjournalnews.com

Comments made at Monday night's school board meeting about the city police department raised the ire of Chief John Lane, who responded Tuesday to a newspaper account of the meeting. morningjournalnews.com

Last season, the Bears found themselves on the losing end of each meet and this season was headed in the same direction until Thursday, as these four meets were packed in as the opening four meets of Ursuline 's season. boston.com

LOS ANGELES — Girl-meets-boy stories are not the usual stuff of Hollywood blockbusters, even when it's girl-meets-vampire. usatoday.com

Iowa Gov Terry Branstad speaks during the Health and Human Services Committee panel meeting at the National Governors Association's winter meetings in Washington Sunday, Feb 26, 2012. kcrg.com

The meeting is 4 to 7 pm Saturday, Nov 12 at the Unitarian Universalist meeting hall on Highway 525 north of Freeland. southwhidbeyrecord.com

Wind could meet world power needs by 2030 Stanford, Delaware climate model show there's plenty of wind to meet energy demand. mv-voice.com

Neder finished first in the 1-meter and 3-meter events in a meet against Westminster, while Wade also won the 1-meter and 3-meter events at the same meet. goerie.com

So it was last weekend, when we were to meet with our friends Ron and Vickie for one of the getaways that we call our board meetings. courierpress.com

I had PTA meetings and carpools to drive, a meeting on fundraising for Children's Hospital. usnews.com

Meetings are the fourth Tuesday of every month at the Pandora School at 7:30 pm There are no meetings in June through August or December. crescent-news.com

No wonder then, that the meeting room for the workshop on physician burnout was packed at the APA annual meeting. psychiatrictimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

One can move L0 (or L1 ) slightly so that it does not meet Dγ .
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve

Notice that L1 is tangent to C in σ (1), but does not meet it otherwise.
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve

If the rotation is sufficiently small, the curve ˆγ does not meet ˆC .
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve

Operational procedure: For two party protocol, the problem of Vernam ciper (popularly called one time pad) is that two users have to meet at regular interval to exchange the key material.
A simple unbreakable code

Thus to meet the above constraints all the lengths of the strip which correspond to ai ’s will have to be vertical.
When Can You Fold a Map?

Usage in literature

Well, I went down to the meeting that night, and saw them coming in with their Bibles with them. "Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations" by Dwight L. Moody

I felt very sad, and the meeting with Richard Clyde, which had excited a momentary joy, now deepened my sadness. "Ernest Linwood" by Caroline Lee Hentz

She would be obliged to meet him, and she was not sure that she was ready to meet him. "Jill the Reckless" by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The eight o'clock meeting was just closing and the preaching service was about to begin, when Joshua rode up to the little meeting-house. "The Kentucky Ranger" by Edward T. Curnick

Death was coming forward to meet him, coming very near; standing upon the very threshold! "The Fortunes of the Farrells" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Miss Du Prel was taken to see the scene of the tragedy, and the meeting-room of the Preposterous Society. "The Daughters of Danaus" by Mona Caird

Oh, Molly, how you differ from most girls one meets. "Molly Bawn" by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

The other meetings of the year were either business meetings or study councils. "The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915" by Various

Let us meet public opinion, and hope the progress of sentiment will make future arrangements. "A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3" by DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

In the early meeting-houses men and women sat on separate sides of the meeting-house, as in Quaker meetings till our own time. "Home Life in Colonial Days" by Alice Morse Earle

Usage in poetry
We shall meet--
Where the wings of angels beat:
When my toils and cares are over,
Thou shalt greet again thy lover--
Robed and crowned at Jesus' feet
We shall meet.
Tyrant! thou hast bereft me
Home, friends, pleasures so sweet;
Now, forever I've left thee,
Thou and I never shall meet;
No, no—oh, no!
Thou and I never shall meet.
Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,
Are they who point our pathway and sustain.
They rarely meet; one soars, one walks retired.
When they do meet, it is our earth inspired.
For an instant it will die away, that 'When? When?'
forever pulsing in you in your penal plight,
and we shall meet there on that bridge in heaven,
face to face we'll meet, this Christmas night.
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead
And the restless water is boisterous.
On the seashore of endless worlds
The children meet with shouts and dances.
We lift our foreheads from the dust;
And as we meet thy brow's clear calm,
There falls a freshening sense of balm
Upon our spirits. Fear—distrust—
The hopeless present on us thrust—
We'll meet them as we can, and must.