What is "encounter"

Encounter \En*coun"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encountered; p. pr. & vb. n. Encountering.] [OF. encontrer; pref. en- (L. in) + contre against, L. contr

1. See Counter, 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 oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.

   Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him.
   --Acts xvii. 18.

   I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you.
   --Shak.

Encounter \En*coun"ter\, v. i. 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.

Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars.
--Tatham.

Encounter \En*coun"ter\, n. [OF. encontre, fr. encontrer. See Encounter, v. t.]

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 their dark encounter in mid-air.
   --Milton .

   Syn: Contest; conflict; fight; combat; assault; rencounter; attack; engagement; onset. See Contest.

c.1300, "meeting of adversaries, confrontation," from Old French encontre "meeting; fight; opportunity" (12c.), noun use of preposition/adverb encontre "against, counter to" from Late Latin incontra "in front of," from Latin in- "in" (see in- (2)) + contra "against" (see contra). Modern use of the word in psychology is from 1967, from the work of U.S. psychologist Carl Rogers (1902-1987). Encounter group attested from 1967.

c.1300, "to meet as an adversary," from Old French encontrer "meet, come across; confront, fight, oppose," from encontre (see encounter (n.)). Weakened sense of "meet casually or unexpectedly" first recorded in English early 16c. Related: Encountered; encountering.

n. 1 An unplanned or unexpected meeting. 2 A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish. 3 A sudden, often violent clash, as between combatants. 4 (label en sports) A match between two opposing sides. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly. 2 (context transitive English) To confront (someone or something) face to face. 3 (context ambitransitive English) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.

1. n. a minor short-term fight [syn: brush, clash, skirmish]

2. a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway" [syn: meeting]

3. a casual meeting with a person of thing [syn: coming upon]

4. a hostile disagreement face-to-face [syn: confrontation, showdown, face-off]

5. v. come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, ran into, run across, come across, see]

6. 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" [syn: find, happen, chance, bump]

7. be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties" [syn: run into]

8. experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition" [syn: meet, receive]

9. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary" [syn: meet, play, take on]

Encounter may refer to:

Encounter is an album by Michael Stearns, released in 1988.

Subtitled A Journey in the Key of Space, it's a collection of peaceful instrumental pieces, weaving synthesizers and various background sounds. It evocates landscapes and feelings of a summer night, the space and also the encounter with an UFO.

The term "encounter", in the context of existential-humanism (like existential therapy), has the specific meaning of an authentic, congruent meeting between individuals.

Encounter is an international network of active urban games.

Also known as "Схватка" (reads as 'skhvatka') (translated "Combat" from Russian) – the game that gave birth to this project.

Encounter is a Canadian talk show television series which aired on CBC Television in 1960.

Encounter is a 2013 action thriller Bengali film directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay and produced by Kamini Tewari. The film features newcomers Dhiraj and Koel Das in the lead roles. Music of the film has been composed by Sanku Mitra.

Encounter is an outdoor 2003–2004 painted or treated bronze sculpture by Bruce Beasley, installed in Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art's north lawn on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. According to Beasley, the work's base blocks represent the institution's "foundation – the faculty, library, and research facilities", while its upper blocks symbolize university "activities – learning, questioning, and exposure to arts and ideas". It was funded by the 1% for Art program.

Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published in the United Kingdom, it was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal, originally associated with the anti-Stalinist left. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication" intended to counter the idea of cold war neutralism. The magazine was rarely critical of American foreign policy, but beyond this editors had considerable publishing freedom.

Spender served as literary editor until 1967, when he resigned due to the revelation that year of the covert Central Intelligence Agency funding of the magazine, which he had heard rumoured, but had not been able to confirm. Thomas W. Braden, who headed the CIA's International Organizations Division's operations between 1951 and 1954, said that the money for the magazine "came from CIA, and few outside the CIA knew about it. We had placed one agent in a Europe-based organization of intellectuals called the Congress for Cultural Freedom." Frank Kermode replaced Spender, but he too resigned when it became clear the CIA was involved. Roy Jenkins noted that earlier contributors were aware of U.S. funding, but believed it came from philanthropists including a Cincinnati gin distiller.

Encounter celebrated its greatest years in terms of readership and influence under Melvin J. Lasky, who succeeded Kristol in 1958 and would serve as the main editor until the magazine closed its doors in 1991. Other editors in this period included D. J. Enright.

Encounter (also known as Encounter!) is a shoot 'em up game originally released in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 programmed by Paul Woakes for Novagen Software. It was published by Novagen in the UK and Europe and by Synapse in North America.

The gameplay is similar to that of Atari's 1980 arcade game Battlezone, but with scaled sprites instead of wireframe 3D graphics. Encounter is notable for moving large, screen-filling objects at a high frame rate. Woakes later developed Mercenary.

Versions for the Amiga and Atari ST computers followed much later, in 1991.

Encounter is a five-week anthology television series aired from Toronto, Canada, and carried by both CBC Television and ABC from October 5 to November 2, 1958. In Canada the series was known as General Motors Presents.

The one-hour dramas were either romance, adventure, or mystery stories. Patrick Macnee, Barry Morse and William Shatner were among those who appeared on Encounter.. ABC had planned to air 39 episodes of the series, but aired only 5.

In the United States, Encounter followed the western series Colt .45. The program faced competition on CBS from The Alfred Hitchcock Show and The $64,000 Question. NBC at the time aired part of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show.

It is not known what program succeeded Encounter in the 9:30 Eastern time slot beginning on Sunday, November 9, 1958. The following season The Alaskans, an adventure program set in Alaska and starring Roger Moore, Dorothy Provine, and Jeff York, aired on ABC in that time period.

Encounter is not the shortest-running series on an American television network. In the fall of 1966, The Tammy Grimes Show, a situation comedy starring Tammy Grimes, ran only four episodes on ABC before it was cancelled.100 Grand, an ABC quiz show, lasted for only three episodes after its debut in the fall of 1963 on the Sunday evening schedule. A program called Turn-On, promoted as a sophisticated answer to NBC's Laugh In, was cancelled on the air during its first and only episode.

Encounter is an album by Trio 3, a jazz group consisting of saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille. It was recorded in 1999 and released on Lake's own Passin' Thru label.

Encounter was an Indian crime television series, produced by Endemol India for Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Entertainment Television Asia. Its central plot was based on 35 encounters in Mumbai over 36 one-hour episodes. Premiered on 11 April 2014, the show aired tri-weekly on every Friday-Sunday at 9 PM IST, and was presented by Manoj Bajpayee. The series was to air its last episode on 4 July 2014, but Sony TV wrapped up the series quite haphazardly on 27 June 2014, and thus to fill up the prime time slot, the channel’s tried and tested show, Crime Patrol has been brought in its place.