| encounter | | |
| n. (act) | 1. brush, clash, encounter, skirmish | a minor short-term fight. |
| ~ contretemps | an awkward clash.; "he tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman" |
| ~ fighting, combat, fight, scrap | the act of fighting; any contest or struggle.; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" |
| n. (event) | 2. encounter, meeting | a casual or unexpected convergence.; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway" |
| ~ convergence | the occurrence of two or more things coming together. |
| ~ alignment, conjunction | (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac. |
| n. (act) | 3. coming upon, encounter | a casual meeting with a person or thing. |
| ~ joining, connexion, connection | the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication).; "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet" |
| n. (communication) | 4. confrontation, encounter, face-off, showdown | a hostile disagreement face-to-face. |
| ~ disagreement | the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing. |
| v. (motion) | 5. come across, encounter, meet, run across, run into, see | come together.; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" |
| ~ intersect, cross | meet at a point. |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (possession) | 6. bump, chance, encounter, find, happen | 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" |
| v. (stative) | 7. encounter, run into | be beset by.; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (stative) | 8. encounter, meet, receive | experience as a reaction.; "My proposal met with much opposition" |
| ~ experience, have | undergo.; "The stocks had a fast run-up" |
| v. (competition) | 9. encounter, meet, play, take on | contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle.; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary" |
| ~ compete, vie, contend | compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others. |
| ~ play | participate in games or sport.; "We played hockey all afternoon"; "play cards"; "Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches" |
| ~ confront, face | oppose, as in hostility or a competition.; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other" |
| ~ play | employ in a game or in a specific position.; "They played him on first base" |
| ~ play | use or move.; "I had to play my queen" |
| ~ play | shoot or hit in a particular manner.; "She played a good backhand last night" |
| ~ replay | repeat a game against the same opponent.; "Princeton replayed Harvard" |
| run-in | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle | an angry dispute.; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" |
| ~ difference of opinion, dispute, difference, conflict | a disagreement or argument about something important.; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" |
| ~ affray, altercation, fracas | noisy quarrel. |
| ~ bicker, bickering, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff, fuss | a quarrel about petty points. |
| ~ bust-up | a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship). |
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