Difference between Play and Meet

What is the difference between Play and Meet?

Play as a noun is activity for amusement only, especially among the young. while Meet as a noun is a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.

Play

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Activity for amusement only, especially among the young. The conduct, or course of a game. An individual's performance in a sport or game. (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play. A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue. A theatrical performance featuring actors. A major move by a business. A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources. The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely. Sexual role-playing (as in , , ).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation. To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex. To play a sport. To produce music using a musical instrument. To act in a performance as the indicated role. To participate in the game indicated. To produce music on the indicated musical instrument. To produce music, the indicated song or style, with a musical instrument. To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording. Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being. In a game or game-like setting, to maintain a posture of being.

Example sentence: I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.

Meet

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)A meeting.the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol \and (mnemonic: half an M)An act of French kissing someone

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: suitable; right; proper

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.To come face to face with someone by arrangement.To converge and finally touch or intersect.To satisfy; to comply with.To French kiss someone

Example sentence: Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

We hope you now know whether to use Play or Meet in your sentence.

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