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encounter English

Meaning encounter meaning

What does encounter mean?
Definitions in simple English

encounter Noun

— An encounter is a meeting, usually one that you don't expect. I had a pleasant encounter yesterday: an old friend of mine visited me. My job was really the result of a chance encounter with an old friend, now my boss. — An encounter is when two people or groups meet to play a game or fight a battle. I hope there will be no encounter with other soldiers tomorrow. This is the fifth World Cup encounter between these two teams.

encounter Verb

— If you encounter problems, difficulties, etc., you experience them. When he did encounter problems, he always knew how to fix them. — If you encounter someone, you meet someone, usually unexpectedly. In the store I encountered my teacher. — If you encounter someone, you meet them to play a game or fight a battle. At night the battle ship encountered enemy planes.

encounter

— verb (= meet, see) come together I'll probably see you at the meeting How nice to see you again! — verb (= find, happen, chance) come upon, as if by accident; meet with We find this idea in Plato I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day — noun (= brush) a minor short-term fight — noun (= meeting) a casual or unexpected convergence he still remembers their meeting in Paris there was a brief encounter in the hallway — verb (= run into) be beset by The project ran into numerous financial difficulties — noun a casual meeting with a person or thing — verb (= meet) experience as a reaction My proposal met with much opposition — verb (= play) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle Princeton plays Yale this weekend Charlie likes to play Mary — noun (= confrontation) a hostile disagreement face-to-face

Synonyms encounter synonyms

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encounter English » English

meet come across meeting find see face run into run across confront fight meet with combat clash strike skirmish hit score run up against get experience conflict catch battle attain oppose meet by chance discover attack rendezvous engagement confrontation come upon chance meeting brush war take on struggle reach play happen upon coming upon come up against bump into arrive at achieve accomplish withstand wallop taste succeed

Topics encounter topics

What do people use encounter to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Encounter

Conjugation encounter conjugation

How do you conjugate encounter?

encounter · verb

Examples encounter examples

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Simple sentences

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
His encounter with her is enriching his inner life.
Insurance makes us remember that the world we live in isn't completely safe; we might fall ill, face danger or encounter the unexpected.
When you encounter difficulties, friends can help you deal with them.
From personal experience, I know that any encounter with him will leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Those who ignore rather than fulfill their need for sleep will soon encounter serious effects on their health.
That was our first encounter.
Tom didn't expect to encounter a human being in a place where a squirrel would have thought twice about entering.
Did you encounter any problems?
The further you go into the woods, the more firewood you'll encounter.
What should I do if I encounter a bear?
We encounter similar difficulties when we substitute rectangles for triangles in this configuration.
Tomorrow we will encounter the enemy.
When I learn a new language, I always encounter similarities with the languages I already know.

Movie subtitles

On its sloping streets we encounter daily life.
We encounter many sick people in the streets.
Seems I must discontinue my research, spend my life diagnosing measles mumps, and whooping cough or encounter his serious disapproval.
We can't change our goal half way just because we encounter some obstacles.
You seem disappointed by your first encounter with freemasonry.
Gentlemen, I do not need to emphasize the hazards you're likely to encounter.
God allowed this fortunate encounter so I could apologize properly.
This is no fortunate encounter.
When I arrived in Madrid my first encounter was with a detachment of the Duke de Lorca's men.
Be you and I behind an arras then, mark the encounter.
Simple encounter?
I suggest, therefore, a man-to-man encounter, barehanded.
A librarian doesn't encounter much violence except an occasional encyclopedia falling.
It happened, sir that last week we did encounter the Natividad.
She may have been anxious that once on her path of life she might encounter an event, some sensuously intoxicating charm to which she would surrender.
In case of an encounter with the friendly people.
And in all this time you didn't encounter one, single person?
During the toughest part of our journey we encounter one of the many treacherous swamps in the area.
I once had an encounter with Colonel Moran.
We have to celebrate our encounter.
Mr. Wilson left Belsize Park owing 1 6 weeks' rent and somewhat richer for a brief encounter with a Miss Wallace.
And one fine day, I had an unusual encounter.
I realized he was the reasons of my worries and that, for days, I had been afraid of that encounter.
And one might encounter evil doers on every street corner.
I do not need to emphasize the hazards you're likely to encounter.
I spent the afternoon in our records office, and I too had a very interesting encounter.
Only this morning we had a most gratifying encounter with an artist.
Perhaps we'll encounter your good-looking friend there.
We encounter each other as if by chance in a public garden. What could be more proper?
In sites like this, these encounter they are very disagreeable.
There Mr. Adams became Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson left Belsize Park owing 1 6 weeks' rent and somewhat richer for a brief encounter with a Miss Wallace.
The purpose of this interview is to frustrate such an encounter.
But I assure you, my innocent ears encounter every day stories of a horror that would make your sophisticated hair stand on end.

News and current affairs

Physics, at least the physics we encounter as ordinary humans, is well mapped.
But if large numbers of a host - say, birds - encounter a great number of people, eventually the virus will find a way to prosper in a new type of cell.
They are also likely to encounter the same sort of problem with other possible reserve currencies.
As a novelist, when writing in Turkish I can encounter more than eight different words to stand for the headscarf.
I encounter these questions everywhere: in Mexico City and the provinces; on radio programs and university campuses; among ordinary people, psychology students, and health professionals.
In Israel, Obama will encounter a country that has indeed moved, but not toward a missing center.
Populations of microbes fluctuate by many billions on a daily basis as they move between their host organisms and encounter antibiotics, antibodies, drought, or other natural hazards to which their genetic evolution may respond.
In theory, bank lenders and the government could anticipate the additional risks they encounter when a company chooses a high-leverage strategy.
But Russia will encounter problems in pursuing this strategy.
It is through Homer that virtually all Western readers first encounter the Mediterranean world: its islands and shores and peoples knit together by diplomacy, trade, marriage, oil, wine, and long ships.
All the while, the fighting and ruined cities of Chechnya cast a shadow on the otherwise much more complex encounter of Russia with the Islamic world.
The international dimension of the attacks also includes an encounter with the after-effects of violence, and the longer-term problems of understanding what happened and how it changed us.
I myself have been attracting the interest of the Russian Public Prosecutor's Office for several months now, and I have yet to encounter any public support in the street, let alone a single autograph hunter.
So, the ECB will encounter no problem of inflation being driven ahead by wages.
Indeed, I can attest from personal experience that to debate her is to encounter someone who is absolutely certain of facts that must exist somewhere in a parallel universe.
Efforts to cap popular tax expenditures will encounter strong opposition from Republicans and Democrats alike.
India's encounter with the West over the past three centuries underscores the distinction between the two processes - modernization and Westernization - that are often assumed to be synonymous.
But soon they encounter their own banana peel; indeed, today's global economy is a riot of slipping economic models.
If the only economics course you take is the typical introductory survey, or if you are a journalist asking an economist for a quick opinion on a policy issue, that is indeed what you will encounter.
As a child, the mere sight of the dentist chair would cause me to break out in a cold sweat, as I anticipated my forthcoming encounter with the battery of gleaming instruments seemingly designed for the principal purpose of causing excruciating pain.
I appeal to my ancestry only in one single case: when I encounter an anti-Semite.

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