encounter

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
2. (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
3. (intransitive, rare) To meet one another.
4. (intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
5. (India, euphemistic, transitive) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.

Noun

1. A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
2. A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
3. A match between two opposing sides.
4. A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
5. The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
6. (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.

Conceptes

ensopegar

trobar

🔍

caure

encertar

endevinar

pegar

aconseguir

trobar-se

topada

assolir

encontre

atènyer

copejar

escaldar

espetegar

jugar

percebre

percudir

picar

reexir

repicar

sorprendre

tenir èxit

trobada

trucar

tustar

xocar

conèixer

conflicte

enfrontament

enfrontar-se

reunir-se

confrontació

batussa

escaramussa

esclafar

quedar amb

xoc

agafar

aprovar

arribar

atrapar

bategar

batre

captivar

capturar

castigar

colpir

confiscar

copsar

Sinònims

meet

come across

meeting

find

🔍

see

👀

face

run into

run across

confront

fight

clash

combat

meet with

hit

skirmish

strike

run up against

score

conflict

get

battle

experience

attain

catch

oppose

meet by chance

discover

attack

👊

rendezvous

brush

come upon

engagement

chance meeting

confrontation

bump into

arrive at

coming upon

reach

accomplish

play

war

take on

come up against

struggle

achieve

happen upon

resist

bump

contact

breast

Traduccions

rencontrer

encuentro

rencontre

treffen

incontrare

ontmoeten

incontro

Begegnung

treffen

trouver

🔍

encontrar

dar no alvo

αντιμετωπίζω

acertar

tegenkomen

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɪnˈkaʊntə/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: encountren

In summary

From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”).