Meating vs. Meeting

Meatingnoun

The action of "meat"; feeding; eating or feasting; eating or feeding arrangements.

Meetingnoun

(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet.

Meetingnoun

A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.

‘We need to have a meeting about that soon.’;

Meetingnoun

The people at such a gathering, as a collective.

‘What has the meeting decided.’;

Meetingnoun

An encounter between people, even accidental.

‘They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.’;

Meetingnoun

A place or instance of junction or intersection.

‘Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.’;

Meetingnoun

A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

Meetingnoun

(Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

‘Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.’;

Meetingverb

present participle of meet

Meetingnoun

A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

Meetingnoun

A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

Meetingnoun

A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.

Meetingnoun

An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; - in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.

Meetingnoun

a formally arranged gathering;

‘next year the meeting will be in Chicago’; ‘the meeting elected a chairperson’;

Meetingnoun

the social act of assembling for some common purpose;

‘his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day’;

Meetingnoun

a small informal social gathering;

‘there was an informal meeting in my livingroom’;

Meetingnoun

a casual or unexpected convergence;

‘he still remembers their meeting in Paris’; ‘there was a brief encounter in the hallway’;

Meetingnoun

the act of joining together as one;

‘the merging of the two groups occurred quickly’; ‘there was no meeting of minds’;

Meetingnoun

a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers);

‘Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers’;

Meeting

A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Many various types of meetings exist.