meet vs recoil

meet

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

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

recoil

verb
  • To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment. 

  • To quickly push back when fired 

noun
  • A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking. 

  • The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle. 

  • An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly. 

  • The state or condition of having recoiled. 

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