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hi everybody welcome back to know your
verbs my name is alicia and in this
lesson we're going to talk about the
verb meet let's begin
the basic definition of the verb meet is
to see and speak to someone for the
first time
some examples
we haven't met i want to meet a famous
person someday
okay
now let's look at the conjugations of
the verb
present
meet
meets
past
met past participle met
progressive meeting
okay now let's look at some additional
meanings for the verb the first
additional meaning for today is to
fulfill or achieve something
examples this apartment meets all my
requirements
we met our company's sales goal for last
month
so in both of these examples we see the
verb meet being used to mean fulfilling
or achieving something so like this
apartment meets all of my requirements
this apartment fulfills all of my
requirements everything i need is in
this apartment everything i require is
in this apartment this apartment meets
my requirements in the second example
sentence
we met our sales goal for the month
means we achieved our sales goal for the
month we did the things we needed to do
we achieved our goal we met our goal in
past tense okay let's go to the second
meaning of this verb the second meaning
is to wait for someone or something so
example sentences of this
can you meet my mom at the station i'll
meet you in front of the restaurant
so in both of these sentences the
idea
is you're going to meet someone yes so
maybe you know the meaning of the verb
as in like regularly meeting someone
like i meet my mom for coffee once a
week or i meet my friends for lunch once
a week that's fine this is slightly
different because the feeling here is
you're going to a location to wait for
someone like to wait kind of like to
pick them up to wait to get together
with them and go somewhere with them
you're going there to wait meet and then
go but we just use the verb meet in this
case so can you meet my mom at the
station means can you go to the station
wait there for my mom to arrive and then
go to another place like maybe come home
with my mom in the second example
sentence i'll meet you in front of the
restaurant it sounds like the speaker is
going to go to the front of the
restaurant
wait there for the listener and then
proceed to you know their meal for
example so we can use meat to mean
waiting for someone or something at a
specific place before they go to the
next thing
the third meaning for this verb is to
join things together so two things or
two or more things come together
examples of this
the river meets the ocean here
the paths met in the forest
so the river meets the ocean here so the
space where the two things come together
that's the place where they meet so
thing a and thing b come together and
meet right here so they're joining
together there the same thing with the
second sentence so the two paths met in
the forest so maybe two different paths
there's one point where they come
together they join together we can say
the two paths met in the forest so
things coming together like this
we can use the verb meet to describe
that relationship
let's talk about some variations of this
verb the first variation is to meet
halfway to meet halfway to meet halfway
means to make a compromise or just to
compromise let's look at some examples
of this
can we meet halfway regarding this issue
i want to go hiking and you want to have
a picnic let's meet halfway and have
lunch in the park
so
these are expressions we can use to
refer to a compromise in my first
example sentence i used a question can
we meet halfway regarding this issue
means can we make a compromise regarding
this issue but meet halfway means make a
compromise it's just a shorter way kind
of a little bit more friendly to meet
halfway
sounds like maybe the speaker wants to
compromise a little bit the speaker is
willing to let go a little bit of their
opinion or their side in the second
example sentence i gave a pretty clear
situation one person wanted to go hiking
another person wanted to have a picnic
and so the compromise was having lunch
in the park so
that's meeting halfway let's meet
halfway let's compromise let's make a
compromise and have lunch in the park so
we can use meet halfway to refer to
compromising between a couple of
different ideas so why do we say meet
halfway because it's like if there are
two opinions and they're completely
different from each other
like imagine on a line opinion a and
opinion b and right here halfway is the
compromise point so they're saying let's
meet halfway let's meet at this
compromise point and continue further so
meet halfway
means compromise okay let's go to the
next variation the next variation is to
meet one's maker or to meet your maker
to meet someone's maker means to die
it's an expression that means to die but
we tend to use it a little bit
uh
this is sort of a strange thing to say
but we use it in sort of a funny way
so we don't really um use this
expression to talk seriously about death
um so example sentences of this
i sent that spider to meet his maker
i'm afraid of the day i have to meet my
maker
okay so in the first example i said i
sent that spider to meet his maker this
is an interesting way of saying i kill
the spider so i sent that spider to meet
his maker first let's talk about maker
here why do we say meet his maker or
meet your maker this refers to a belief
in god or a belief in a higher power so
the maker being a person or i shouldn't
say a person so the maker would be the
being that created you that created this
person that created this thing so to
meet one's maker is to meet the person
or to meet the thing or to meet the
entity whatever your belief is that
created you or that created the thing
that you're talking about so when i say
i sent that spider to meet his maker so
i'm saying i sent i sent meaning i
caused the spider to go so i sent the
spider i didn't actually like mail a
spider somewhere but i caused the spider
to go to meet his maker in other words i
caused the spider to die um i i killed
the spider that's what happened there in
the second sentence i'm afraid to meet
my maker means i'm afraid to die but it
has kind of a casual feel to it meet my
maker or meet one's maker has sort of a
not so serious feeling about death but
it means to die so those are a few
different perhaps ways to use the verb
meet i hope that that was helpful for
you and you picked up some new
vocabulary words you can use of course
if you know some other meanings of the
verb meet if you want to try to make an
example sentence or if you have a
question please feel free to do so in
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