Word · CEFR A1 · Frequency #259
meet
运动会
A sports competition, especially in track and field or swimming.
- 1.
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
体育比赛,尤指田径或游泳比赛。
- 2.
a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
举行多项田径比赛的集会
- 3.
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
猎狐活动中骑手、马匹和猎犬的集会；狩猎集会。
- 4.
A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
单轨上两列相反方向列车的交会,其中一列进入侧线让另一列通过。
- 5.
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
最大下界,格中元素对之间的一种运算,用符号∧表示。
猎狐聚会；会车；交；体育比赛,尤指田径或游泳比赛。；举行多项田径比赛的集会
In use
The school held an annual track and field meet last Saturday.
She won two gold medals at the swimming meet.
Our team is preparing for the big meet next month.
a meet
可数名词，常与体育赛事搭配。
We went to a swimming meet last weekend.
上周末我们去参加了一场游泳比赛。
the meet
The meet was canceled due to rain.
因下雨，运动会取消了。
at a meet
与介词 at 连用表示在运动会上。
He broke a school record at the track meet.
他在田径运动会上打破了一项校纪录。
Connections
Collocations
- track meet
- 田径运动会
- She broke the school record at the track meet.她在田径运动会上打破了校纪录。
- swim meet
- 游泳比赛
- Our team trained hard for the swim meet.我们队为游泳比赛刻苦训练。
- invitational meet
- 邀请赛
- The university hosted an invitational meet for top athletes.这所大学为顶尖运动员举办了一场邀请赛。
- championship meet
- 锦标赛
- He qualified for the national championship meet.他获得了参加全国锦标赛的资格。
Synonyms
- competition
- 比赛；竞技 · 比 meet 更通用，可指任何有胜负的竞技活动；而 meet 特指田径、游泳等多项目运动会。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
meet作名词指运动会，可记：运动员聚集赛场“相遇”(meet)较量，尤其田径游泳赛事。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：体育比赛（田径/游泳）、猎狐活动、铁路会车、数学格论 名词 meet 的不同义项语域差异较大：表示体育比赛（如 track meet、swim meet）时比较常见于美式英语，属于日常中性用语；表示铁路会车或数学下确界时属于专业术语，多用于正式或技术语境；猎狐聚会则较为陈旧且局限于特定活动。因此整体语域标记为 mixed。
Grammar Note
作为名词时通常指体育比赛集会
Pronunciation & Spelling
All listed words genuinely rhyme with meet (/miːt/): meat, beat, seat, wheat, sweet, feet. Note the spelling pattern differs: -eat (meat, beat, seat, wheat) vs -eet (sweet, feet). Beware lookalikes that do not rhyme: met /met/ and mate /meɪt/.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 5，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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