What part of speech is met?

Met can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. met is a verb, past participle of meet (infinitive).
  • 2. met is a verb, past simple of meet (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does met mean?

Definitions

Verb

meet - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
meet - fill or meet a want or need
meet - contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
meet - get together socially or for a specific purpose
meet - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
meet - come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
meet - experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
meet - meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?"
meet - satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams"
meet - get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"
meet - be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
meet - be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point"
meet - undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"

Examples of met

#   Sentence  
1. verb US-trained Malaysian biochemist Yazid Sufaat met with 9/11 plotters and two hijackers in January 2000.
2. verb As described in US News, a former reporter from the Kabul Times actually may have met Sufaat, without realizing it, while traveling near Kabul in October 2001, perceiving him as Filipino.
3. verb They met while they were both working on a project as lawyers in Buenos Aires.
4. verb Doug and I met with the Chairman of PUCT and have had subsequent conversations.
5. verb I met him last week at the meeting of the Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics society at the University of Houston.
6. verb This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence.
7. verb Looking out of the window, Decoud was met by a darkness so impenetrable that he could see neither the mountains nor the town, nor yet the buildings near the harbour; and there was not a sound, as if the tremendous obscurity of the Placid Gulf, spreading from the waters over the land, had made it dumb as well as blind. . . .
8. verb And I have not met one stuck-up trail rider!
9. verb In all my travels I’ve never seen anything like it and am often met with an odd look when I explain them to foreigners.
10. verb My wife was TERRIFIED of snakes when we first met, I introduced her to one out my baby corn snakes and she fell in love with it.
11. verb I've never met a hamster that didn't bite me.
12. verb Once you have met Nigel you will not want to work with anyone else.
13. verb I was about to give up when I met Jason and Neal.
14. verb The pastor at this church is cool, I met him after some holiday service.
15. verb I had a severe phobia of attending the dentist until I met and was treated by Dr Nelson.
Sentence  
verb
US-trained Malaysian biochemist Yazid Sufaat met with 9/11 plotters and two hijackers in January 2000.
As described in US News, a former reporter from the Kabul Times actually may have met Sufaat, without realizing it, while traveling near Kabul in October 2001, perceiving him as Filipino.
They met while they were both working on a project as lawyers in Buenos Aires.
Doug and I met with the Chairman of PUCT and have had subsequent conversations.
I met him last week at the meeting of the Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics society at the University of Houston.
This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence.
Looking out of the window, Decoud was met by a darkness so impenetrable that he could see neither the mountains nor the town, nor yet the buildings near the harbour; and there was not a sound, as if the tremendous obscurity of the Placid Gulf, spreading from the waters over the land, had made it dumb as well as blind. . . .
And I have not met one stuck-up trail rider!
In all my travels I’ve never seen anything like it and am often met with an odd look when I explain them to foreigners.
My wife was TERRIFIED of snakes when we first met, I introduced her to one out my baby corn snakes and she fell in love with it.
I've never met a hamster that didn't bite me.
Once you have met Nigel you will not want to work with anyone else.
I was about to give up when I met Jason and Neal.
The pastor at this church is cool, I met him after some holiday service.
I had a severe phobia of attending the dentist until I met and was treated by Dr Nelson.

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