"met" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /mɛt/ Audio: en-us-met.ogg [US]
enPR: met Rhymes: -ɛt Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} met
  1. simple past and past participle of meet Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: meet
    Sense id: en-met-en-verb-A~WiRv3b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 44 9 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 48 44 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /mɛt/ Audio: en-us-met.ogg [US]
enPR: met Rhymes: -ɛt Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} met
  1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of mete (to measure) Tags: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Form of: mete (extra: to measure)
    Sense id: en-met-en-verb--parQ~c5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 44 9 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 48 44 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /mɛt/ Audio: en-us-met.ogg [US] Forms: met [past]
enPR: met Rhymes: -ɛt Etymology: From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|meten||to dream}} Middle English meten (“to dream”), {{inh|en|ang|mætan||to dream}} Old English mætan (“to dream”) Head templates: {{en-verb|-|-|met|-}} met (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past met, no past participle)
  1. (obsolete, impersonal) To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream. Tags: impersonal, no-past-participle, no-present-participle, obsolete
    Sense id: en-met-en-verb--ejEnhwe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

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