rendezvous

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ren·dez·vous1 /ˈrɒndəvuː, -deɪ- $ ˈrɑːndeɪ-/ noun (plural rendezvous /-vuːz/)  1  [countable]MEET an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place, often secretly 〔常指秘密的〕约会；会面rendezvous with He made a rendezvous with her in Times Square. 他和她相约在时代广场见面。 plans for a secret rendezvous 秘密约会的计划► see thesaurus at meeting2  [countable usually singular]MEET a place where two or more people have arranged to meet 约会地点 Boats picked us up at pre-arranged rendezvous. 船在预先约定的地点接我们。3  [countable]DL a bar, restaurant etc where people like to meet 热门聚会处〔指酒吧、饭店等〕 a popular rendezvous for media people 传媒界人士爱去的聚会场所

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rendezvous• I am opposed to air mattresses at a rendezvous, personally.• One quick telephone call had booked the aircraft, another fixed a rendezvous with a fellow salesman.• I had a rendezvous in the dark.• Dexter and she would deliver Urquhart there for his rendezvous at seven o'clock that morning.• Their plan for a Paris rendezvous had collapsed.• I asked if he was going down to the rendezvous.• Old Town Square is one of Prague's best known tourist rendezvous.rendezvous with• She flew to Paris for a secret rendezvous with Jean-Jacques.• The yacht was scheduled to rendezvous with a Coast Guard patrol on Monday.rendezvous2 verb [intransitive]  1  MEETto meet someone at a time or place that was arranged earlier 〔在约定的时间或地点〕会面，相会 SYN meet uprendezvous with We’ll rendezvous with James in Nicosia. 我们将在尼科西亚和詹姆斯碰头。2. if two spacecraft, aircraft, or military vehicles rendezvous, they meet, for example to move supplies from one to the other 〔航天器、飞机或军用车辆为调动补给等而〕会合→ See Verb table

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rendezvous• At seven p.m. she entered the wine bar where she had arranged to rendezvous.• The vehicle can then rendezvous and dock with the space station with little further expenditure of fuel.• The other participants in the meeting have to rendezvous at a similar studio, of which there are nine in Britain.• We rendezvous every morning near Blackfriars Bridge and get the first jobs over the radio.• But at weekends, they attempt to rendezvous over the Oxford marmalade, and on this occasion had succeeded.• You'd rendezvous with people at midnight at Covent Garden station.Origin rendezvous1 (1500-1600) French “present yourselves!”

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rendezvous

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ren‧dez‧vous¹ /ˈrɒndəvuː, ˈrɒndɪvuː, -deɪ- $ ˈrɑːndeɪ-/ noun (plural rendezvous /-vuːz/)1. [countable] an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place, often secretly
    rendezvous with
    He made a rendezvous with her in Times Square.
    plans for a secret rendezvous
2. [countable usually singular] a place where two or more people have arranged to meet:
    Boats picked us up at pre-arranged rendezvous.
3. [countable] a bar, restaurant etc where people like to meet:
    a popular rendezvous for media people
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ meeting an occasion when people meet in order to discuss something: a business meeting. | Mr Bell is in a meeting. | The committee will hold another meeting Wednesday.
   ▪ conference an organized event, especially one that continues for several days, at which a lot of people meet to discuss a particular subject and hear speeches about it: Didn’t you give a talk at the conference last year? | a conference of women business leaders
   ▪ convention a large formal meeting of people who belong to a political party, or to an organization of people with the same interests: the Democratic Party Convention | a convention for Star Trek fans
   ▪ rally a large public meeting, especially one that is held outdoors to support or protest about something: There was a massive peace rally in London.
   ▪ summit a meeting between government leaders from important and powerful countries, to discuss important matters: A summit meeting of OPEC leaders was called to find a solution to the oil crisis. | next week’s economic summit
   ▪ caucus American English a local meeting of the members of a political party to choose people to represent them at a larger meeting, or to choose a candidate in an election: Obama won the Iowa caucus in 2007.
   ▪ teleconference/video conference a business meeting in which people in different places talk to each other using telephones or video equipment: The chairman held teleconferences with his senior managers.
   ▪ gathering/get-together a situation in which a group of people come together to meet, talk, and have drinks with each other, especially friends or family: We held a small family get-together to celebrate her birthday. | She arranged social gatherings in Kettering for young people on Saturday evenings.
   ▪ date an arrangement to meet someone who you are having, or hoping to have, a romantic relationship with: I think I might ask her out on a date.
   ▪ rendezvous a meeting where two people have arranged to meet at a particular time or place, often secretly: She arranged a rendezvous with him in the hotel bar.
   ▪ tryst literary a secret meeting between people who are having a romantic relationship: a good place for a moonlight tryst

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rendezvous² verb [intransitive]
1. to meet someone at a time or place that was arranged earlier
   SYN  meet up
    rendezvous with
    We’ll rendezvous with James in Nicosia.
2. if two spacecraft, aircraft, or military vehicles rendezvous, they meet, for example to move supplies from one to the other