meet vs puzzle

meet

noun
  • A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming. 

  • The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧. 

  • A meeting. 

  • A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. 

  • A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. 

verb
  • To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting. 

  • To touch or hit something while moving. 

  • To converge and finally touch or intersect. 

  • To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute. 

  • To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of. 

  • To satisfy; to comply with. 

  • To come face to face with someone by arrangement. 

  • To get acquainted with someone. 

  • To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. 

  • To play a match. 

  • To balance or come out correct. 

  • To come together in conflict. 

  • To adjoin, be physically touching. 

  • To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer. 

puzzle

noun
  • A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. 

  • Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. 

  • A riddle. 

  • The state of being puzzled; perplexity. 

  • A jigsaw puzzle. 

  • A crossword puzzle. 

verb
  • To think long and carefully, in bewilderment. 

  • To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation. 

  • To make intricate; to entangle. 

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