Look up: encounter

1. Encounter
   A contact between an individual and the health care system for a health care service or set of services related to one or more medical conditions.
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2. Encounter
   A meeting between two or more individuals in a situation of face-to-face interaction. Our day-to-day lives can be seen as a series of different encounters strung out across the course of the day. In modern societies, many of the encounters we have with others involve strangers rather than people we know well.
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3. encounter
   [n] - a casual meeting with a person of thing
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4. Encounter
   En·coun'ter transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Encountered ; present participle & verbal noun Encountering .] [ Old French encontrer ; prefix en- (L. in )...
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5. Encounter
   En·coun'ter intransitive verb To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo. « I will encounter with Andronicus.» Shak. �...
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6. Encounter
   En·coun'ter noun [ Old French encontre , from encontrer . See Encounter , transitive verb ] 1. A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. « To shu...
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7. encounter
   1. A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. 'To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd.' (Pope) ... 2. A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. 'As one for . . . Fierce encounters fit'. (Spenser) 'To join thei...
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8. encounter
   noun a casual meeting with a person of thing
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9. encounter
   verb be beset by; `The project ran into numerous financial difficulties`
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10. encounter
    run across verb come together; `I`ll probably see you at the meeting`; `How nice to see you again!`
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11. Encounter
    • (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. • (adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to o...
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12. Encounter
    (from the article `Spender, Sir Stephen`) From the 1940s Spender was better known for his perceptive criticism and his editorial association with the influential reviews Horizon (1940–41) and ... ...later revived the old London Magazine (from 1954); and Horizon (1940–50; revived 1958), which Cyril Connolly started as a medium ...
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13. Encounter
    HMS Encounter was a British Eclipse Class destroyer of 1375 tons displacement launched in 1934 and sunk during the Second World War. She was armed with four 4.7-inch guns; six smaller guns; two depth-charge throwers and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by three Admiralty 3-drum type boil...
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14. encounter
    
    • a minor short-term fight
    • a casual or unexpected convergence
    • a casual meeting with a person of thing
    • a hostile disagreement face-to-face
    
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15. Encounter
    (magazine) `Encounter` was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and early neoconservative author Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published in the United Kingdom, it was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal. Spender ...
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16. Encounter
    (album) :For the 1966 Modern Jazz Quartet / Swingle Singers album of the same name, see: Place Vendôme`` (Swingle Singers with MJQ album) --> `Encounter` is an album by Michael Stearns, released in 1988. Subtitled A Journey in the Key of Space, it`s a collection of pea...
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17. Encounter
    (Christian event) `Encounter` is a Christian conference event that takes place each year in Preston, Lancashire in the United Kingdom. It was started in the late 1990s by a group of Lancashire based Christians from various evangelical churches with the aim of bringing Christians together for ...
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18. Encounter
    (psychology) The term "`encounter`", in the context of existential-humanism (like existential therapy), has the specific meaning of an authentic, congruent meeting between individuals. Examples: Some uses of the concept of encountering:
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19. Encounter
    (TV series) `Encounter` is a five-week anthology television series aired from Toronto, Canada, and carried by both the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC from October 5 to November 2, 1958. The one-hour dramas were either romance, adventure, or mystery stories. Patrick Macnee, l...
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