met

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of meet

1. obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of mete (to measure)

   Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground, With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;

   [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC

1. impersonalno past participleno present participleobsoleteTo dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.

   All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.

   c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary

1. Londonrail transportThe London Underground Metropolitan line.

   Synonyms: Metropolitan

2. Londonhistoricalrail transportThe Metropolitan Railway.

   Synonyms: Metropolitan

3. LondongovernmentThe Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS).

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   The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over its handling of the investigation. […] The Met said it had informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards and a "mandatory referral will be made to the IOPC in relation to the initial contact from the woman's friend".

   2024 April 11, Victoria Cook, “Westminster murder inquiry: Woman, 27, named by police”, in bbc.com

   Synonyms: Metropol

4. USThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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   Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy.

   2022 September 7, Gillian Brassil, “The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022

5. New YorkartThe current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.

plural Mets

1. LondoninformalA Metropolitan line train.
2. ball gamesA player for the New York Mets.

plural METs · plural METS

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismmedicineInitialism of metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise.

   Synonyms: metabolic equivalent

2. abbreviationcountableuncountablebiochemistryAbbreviation of methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine.
3. abbreviationcountableuncountablebiochemistryAbbreviation of methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid.
4. countableuncountablebiologyThe gene symbol for C-Met, a proto-oncogene in human biology.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of mesenchymal–epithelial transition.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of motivational enhancement therapy, used in treatment of drug abuse and mental illness to help people in denial accept treatment.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of muscle energy technique, a neuromuscular protocol used in osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage therapy.
8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablespace flightInitialism of Mission Elapsed Time.
9. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableaeronauticsInitialism of Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled handcart used on the Apollo 14 manned mission to the Moon.