Verb
(chiefly US, Canada) To have a meeting with (someone).
To encounter; to experience.
The proposal met with stiff opposition.
To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
They met the proposal with stiff opposition.
The proposal was met with stiff opposition.
The proposal met with stiff opposition. (ergative)
To strike (something).
His face met with a punch harder than a punch should be.
To contact or touch (something).
The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. William Hazlitt
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. Henry David Thoreau
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk! Abu Nuwas
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press. Gottlob Frege
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course." Gregory Bateson
A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by it. Dutch Proverb