Meat or meat means edible flesh--the beef, chicken, or pork we buy at the grocery store--
When she became a vegetarian, she gave up eating meat.
I went to the store and bought the meat that was on sale.
Put the meat in the refrigerator so it won't spoil.
Meet or meet ( rhymes with meat ) means to encounter or run into a person, or to keep a date with someone--
Let's meet at the movie theater at 7 o'clock.
How did you meet your friend?
Meet me at the eagle.
Mete or mete ( rhymes with meat ) means to allot or ration,or to hand out a measured amount of something--
Many parents believe that you should mete out praise sparingly.
They tried to mete to each person an equal portion.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"Let's meet for a dinner of meat and potatoes."
"We can meet at my house, where we will mete out the meat."
Note--the noun ( thing or idea ) form of "meet" is "meeting"--
There's a meeting on Wednesday.
A "meet" is a track meet or a similar sporting event--
Our team won the track meet.
"Meet" is also an old-fashioned term for suitable or proper--
"It is meet and right so to do..."
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