Meet one's maker

Definition

meet / mi:t / v ( pt, pp met /met/) ၁။ (က) (no passive) ေတြ႕သည္။ ဆံုသည္။ ရင္ဆိုင္သည္။ I hope we'll meet again soon. ❍ We met (each other) quite by chance. ❍ I met her in the street. ❍ An amazing sight met their eyes as they entered the room. (ခ) ေတြ႕သည္။ ဆံုသည္။ စည္းေဝး သည္။ The committee meets regularly / on Fridays. ❍ The Prime Minister met his Japanese opposite number for talks. (ဂ) (အခ်ိန္းအခ်က္ ျပဳလုပ္၍) ေတြ႕သည္၊ ဆံုသည္။ Let's meet after work and go for a drink. ၂။ ေစာင့္လင့္သည္။ ႀကိဳသည္။ Will you meet me at the station/off the train? ❍ The hotel bus meets all incoming flights. ၃။ (no passive) အသိအကြၽမ္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ေတြ႕သည္။ ဆံုမိသည္။ Where did you (first) meet your husband? ❍ Meet Susan (ie as an informal style of introduction). ❍ Pleased to meet you. ❍ I don't think we've met (before). ၄။ (no passive) ေတြ႕ဆံုယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည္။ ေတြ႕သည္။ City and United met/City met United in the final last year. ၅။ ေတြ႕ႀကံဳသည္။ ဆံုမိသည္။ ႀကံဳႀကိဳက္သည္။ meet difficulties/ disaster / one's death ❍ Others have met similar problems. ❍ We've met this verb form in a previous lesson. ၆။ ဆံုသည္။ ထိသည္။ ဆက္မိသည္။ Their eyes met (ie They looked at each other at the same time). ❍ His hand met hers. ❍ This belt doesn't meet round my waist any more! ၇။ ျဖည့္ဆည္းေပးသည္။ လုပ္ေပးသည္။ ၿပီးစီးသည္။ Can we meet all their requirements/ conditions? ❍ I can't possibly meet that deadline. ၈။ ေပးသည္။ ေပးေခ်သည္။ The cost will be met by the company. n ( esp US ) အားကစားၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ an athletics meet. Compare MEETING ၃ ❏ meet sb's eye(s) [ IDM ] (esp in negative sentences) ေစ့ေစ့ၾကည့္သည္။ She was afraid to meet my eye(s). ❏ meet sb halfway [ IDM ] ေစ့စပ္သည္။ အေပးအယူ လုပ္သည္။ If you agree to fix it all up I'll meet you halfway with the cost. ❏ meet one's Maker [ IDM ] ( esp joc ) ေသသည္။ Poor Fred's gone to meet his Maker. ❏ meet up (with sb) [ PHRV ] ေတြ႕သည္။ ဆံုမိသည္။ Let's meet up again later for a drink. ❍ I met up with an old school friend in London. ❏ meet one's Waterloo [ IDM ] အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ႐ံႈးသည္။ နာလန္မထူေအာင္ ႐ံႈးသည္။ ❏ meet with sb [ PHRV ] ( esp US ) ေတြ႕သည္။ The President met with senior White House aides. ❏ meet with sth [ PHRV ] ႀကံဳရသည္။ ႀကံဳေတြ႕သည္။ Her proposal met with much hostility / criticism. ❍ I met with much kindness among these poor people. ❏ meet sth with sth [ PHRV ] တံု႔ျပန္သည္။ It's too easy to meet aggression with more aggression. ❏ there is more in/to sb/sth than meets the eye [ IDM ] တိမ္မေယာင္ႏွင့္နက္ေသာ၊ လြယ္မေယာင္ႏွင့္ ခက္ေသာ အရာ။

Examples

1. I’ll meet you in the bar later.
2. [meet for] : We’re meeting for lunch tomorrow.
3. [meet to do something] : I’d like to meet to talk about your future.
4. You’ll never guess who I met on the plane.
5. Have you met my wife?
6. I think they met at college.
7. The president is meeting world leaders at a summit next week.
8. [meet to do something] : The council will meet next week to decide what action to take.
9. We’ll come out to the airport to meet you.
10. [meet someone off the train/boat/plane etc] : Could you meet Maggie off the train in London?
11. The two teams met last year in the final.
12. They are likely to meet Barcelona in the next round.
13. We tried to investigate but met a wall of silence.
14. [meet (with) opposition/approval/resistance etc] : The bill met strong opposition from the Tories.
15. [be met by/with something] : The officials were met by complaints about joblessness and crime.
16. The two rivers meet just north of the town.
17. The line where the land meets the sky
18. This technology can meet the challenges of the 21st century.
19. [meet the needs of someone/something] : The water won’t meet the needs of the local population.
20. Will the government be able to meet their spending targets?
21. My salary is only just enough to meet our living expenses.
22. Their eyes met long enough for him to see the warning.
23. She was finding it hard to meet his gaze.
24. Her lips met mine.