met
Meanings
verb
- simple past and past participle of meet
verb
- simple past and past participle of mete (to measure)
verb
- To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
name
- The London Underground Metropolitan line.
- The Metropolitan Railway.
- The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS).
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
- The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.
noun
- A Metropolitan line train.
- A player for the New York Mets.
noun
- Initialism of metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise.
- Abbreviation of methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine.
- Abbreviation of methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid.
- The gene symbol for C-Met, a proto-oncogene in human biology.
- Initialism of mesenchymal–epithelial transition.
- Initialism of motivational enhancement therapy, used in treatment of drug abuse and mental illness to help people in denial accept treatment.
- Initialism of muscle energy technique, a neuromuscular protocol used in osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage therapy.
- Initialism of Mission Elapsed Time.
- Initialism of Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled handcart used on the Apollo 14 manned mission to the Moon.
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Etymology
From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).
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