| slovo | definícia |
quaint
(encz) | quaint,kuriózní adj: [obec.] mamm |
quaint
(encz) | quaint,podivný adj: [obec.] mamm |
Quaint
(gcide) | Quaint \Quaint\, a. [OE. queint, queynte, coint, prudent, wise,
cunning, pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable,
agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere
to know; con + noscere (for gnoscere) to know. See Know,
and cf. Acquaint, Cognition.]
1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.]
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Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. --Chaucer.
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2. Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned;
skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
[Archaic] " The queynte ring." " His queynte spear."
--Chaucer. " A shepherd young quaint." --Chapman.
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Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. --Spenser.
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To show bow quaint an orator you are. --Shak.
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3. Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique;
archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a
quaint expression.
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Some stroke of quaint yet simple pleasantry.
--Macaulay.
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An old, long-faced, long-bodied servant in quaint
livery. --W. Irving.
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Syn: Quaint, Odd, Antique.
Usage: Antique is applied to that which has come down from
the ancients, or which is made to imitate some ancient
work of art. Odd implies disharmony, incongruity, or
unevenness. An odd thing or person is an exception to
general rules of calculation and procedure, or
expectation and common experience. In the current use
of quaint, the two ideas of odd and antique are
combined, and the word is commonly applied to that
which is pleasing by reason of both these qualities.
Thus, we speak of the quaint architecture of many old
buildings in London; or a quaint expression, uniting
at once the antique and the fanciful.
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quaint
(wn) | quaint
adj 1: strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint
dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most
foreign of American cities"
2: very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character
or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill
which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty;
"came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a
quaint sense of humor"
3: attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof
supporting old-time chimney pots" [syn: old-time, quaint,
olde worlde] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
acquaint
(mass) | acquaint
- zoznámiť, predstaviť, spoznať, informovať |
acquaintance
(mass) | acquaintance
- známosť, známy |
acquaintances
(mass) | acquaintances
- známi |
acquaint
(encz) | acquaint,informovat v: Rostislav Svobodaacquaint,obeznámit v: Rostislav Svobodaacquaint,seznámit v: |
acquaintance
(encz) | acquaintance,obeznámenost Zdeněk Brožacquaintance,zkušenost Michal Kolesa (michal.kolesa@quick.cz)acquaintance,známá adj: acquaintance,známost Zdeněk Brožacquaintance,známý adj: člověk |
acquaintances
(encz) | acquaintances,obeznámenosti n: Zdeněk Brožacquaintances,známí Zdeněk Brož |
acquaintanceship
(encz) | acquaintanceship,známost n: Zdeněk Brož |
acquainted
(encz) | acquainted,obeznámený adj: Zdeněk Brožacquainted,seznámený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
get acquainted with
(encz) | get acquainted with,seznámit se get acquainted with,seznamovat se |
quainter
(encz) | quainter,malebnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
quaintly
(encz) | quaintly,starobyle adv: Zdeněk Brož |
quaintness
(encz) | quaintness,starobylost n: Zdeněk Brož |
reacquaint
(encz) | reacquaint, |
unacquainted
(encz) | unacquainted, |
unacquainted with
(encz) | unacquainted with, adj: |
A speaking acquaintance
(gcide) | Speaking \Speak"ing\, a.
1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a
speaking animal; a speaking tube.
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2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a
speaking likeness.
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A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a
person, or one which merely permits the exchange of
salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects.
Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat resembling a
trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so
intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance.
Speaking tube, a tube for conveying speech, especially from
one room to another at a distance.
To be on speaking terms, to be slightly acquainted.
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Acquaint
(gcide) | Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, a. [OF. acoint. See Acquaint, v. t.]
Acquainted. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acquainted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Acquainting.] [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF.
acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of
cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See Quaint,
Know.]
1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make
(one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
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Before a man can speak on any subject, it is
necessary to be acquainted with it. --Locke.
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A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. --Isa.
liii. 3.
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2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; --
followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that,
introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend
with the particulars of an act.
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Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. --Shak.
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I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland. --Shak.
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3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal
knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less
familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.
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Syn: To inform; apprise; communicate; advise.
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Acquaintable
(gcide) | Acquaintable \Ac*quaint"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. acointable].
Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] --Rom. of R.
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Acquaintance
(gcide) | Acquaintance \Ac*quaint"ance\, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF.
acointance, fr. acointier. See Acquaint.]
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or
more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal
knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of
friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no
acquaintance with him.
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Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a
guileful man. --Sir W.
Jones.
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2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
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Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
--Macaulay.
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Note: In this sense the collective term acquaintance was
formerly both singular and plural, but it is now
commonly singular, and has the regular plural
acquaintances.
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To be of acquaintance, to be intimate.
To take acquaintance of or with, to make the acquaintance
of. [Obs.]
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Syn: Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge.
Usage: Acquaintance, Familiarity, Intimacy. These words
mark different degrees of closeness in social
intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional
intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief
one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate
acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued
acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently
together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve;
as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the
result of close connection, and the freest interchange
of thought; as, the intimacy of established
friendship.
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Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our
nearer acquaintance with him. --Addison.
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We contract at last such a familiarity with them
as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call
off our minds. --Atterbury.
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It is in our power to confine our friendships
and intimacies to men of virtue. --Rogers.
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Acquaintanceship
(gcide) | Acquaintanceship \Ac*quaint"ance*ship\, n.
A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. --Southey.
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Acquaintant
(gcide) | Acquaintant \Ac*quaint"ant\, n. [Cf. F. acointant, p. pr.]
An acquaintance. [R.] --Swift.
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Acquainted
(gcide) | Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acquainted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Acquainting.] [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF.
acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of
cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See Quaint,
Know.]
1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make
(one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
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Before a man can speak on any subject, it is
necessary to be acquainted with it. --Locke.
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A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. --Isa.
liii. 3.
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2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; --
followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that,
introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend
with the particulars of an act.
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Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. --Shak.
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I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland. --Shak.
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3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal
knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less
familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.
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Syn: To inform; apprise; communicate; advise.
[1913 Webster]Acquainted \Ac*quaint"ed\, a.
Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with,
under Acquaint, v. t.
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Acquaintedness
(gcide) | Acquaintedness \Ac*quaint"ed*ness\, n.
State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.]
--Boyle.
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Acquainting
(gcide) | Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acquainted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Acquainting.] [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF.
acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of
cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See Quaint,
Know.]
1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make
(one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
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Before a man can speak on any subject, it is
necessary to be acquainted with it. --Locke.
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A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. --Isa.
liii. 3.
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2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; --
followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that,
introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend
with the particulars of an act.
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Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. --Shak.
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I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland. --Shak.
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3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal
knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less
familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.
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Syn: To inform; apprise; communicate; advise.
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Disacquaint
(gcide) | Disacquaint \Dis`ac*quaint"\, v. t. [Pref. dis- + acquaint: cf.
OF. desacointier.]
To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. [Obs.]
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While my sick heart
With dismal smart
Is disacquainted never. --Herrick.
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Disacquaintance
(gcide) | Disacquaintance \Dis`ac*quaint"ance\, n.
Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
[Obs.] --South.
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Inacquaintance
(gcide) | Inacquaintance \In`ac*quaint"ance\, a.
Lack of acquaintance. --Good.
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Nonacquaintance
(gcide) | Nonacquaintance \Non`ac*quaint"ance\, n.
Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
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old-time quaint
(gcide) | nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum;
{fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),
stodgy old-fashioned}; medieval, mediaeval, gothic;
old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian;
old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old,
past.
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Preacquaint
(gcide) | Preacquaint \Pre`ac*quaint"\, v. t.
To acquaint previously or beforehand. --Fielding.
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Preacquaintance
(gcide) | Preacquaintance \Pre`ac*quaint"ance\, n.
Previous acquaintance or knowledge. --Harris.
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Quaint
(gcide) | Quaint \Quaint\, a. [OE. queint, queynte, coint, prudent, wise,
cunning, pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable,
agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere
to know; con + noscere (for gnoscere) to know. See Know,
and cf. Acquaint, Cognition.]
1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.]
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Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. --Chaucer.
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2. Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned;
skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
[Archaic] " The queynte ring." " His queynte spear."
--Chaucer. " A shepherd young quaint." --Chapman.
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Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. --Spenser.
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To show bow quaint an orator you are. --Shak.
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3. Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique;
archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a
quaint expression.
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Some stroke of quaint yet simple pleasantry.
--Macaulay.
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An old, long-faced, long-bodied servant in quaint
livery. --W. Irving.
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Syn: Quaint, Odd, Antique.
Usage: Antique is applied to that which has come down from
the ancients, or which is made to imitate some ancient
work of art. Odd implies disharmony, incongruity, or
unevenness. An odd thing or person is an exception to
general rules of calculation and procedure, or
expectation and common experience. In the current use
of quaint, the two ideas of odd and antique are
combined, and the word is commonly applied to that
which is pleasing by reason of both these qualities.
Thus, we speak of the quaint architecture of many old
buildings in London; or a quaint expression, uniting
at once the antique and the fanciful.
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Quaintise
(gcide) | Quaintise \Quain"tise\, n. [OF. cointise.]
1. Craft; subtlety; cunning. [Obs.] --Chaucer. R. of Glouces.
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2. Elegance; beauty. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Quaintly
(gcide) | Quaintly \Quaint"ly\, adv.
In a quaint manner. --Shak.
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Quaintness
(gcide) | Quaintness \Quaint"ness\, n.
The quality of being quaint. --Pope.
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To be acquainted with
(gcide) | Acquaint \Ac*quaint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acquainted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Acquainting.] [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF.
acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of
cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See Quaint,
Know.]
1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make
(one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
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Before a man can speak on any subject, it is
necessary to be acquainted with it. --Locke.
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A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. --Isa.
liii. 3.
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2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; --
followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that,
introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend
with the particulars of an act.
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Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. --Shak.
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I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland. --Shak.
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3. To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal
knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less
familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.
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Syn: To inform; apprise; communicate; advise.
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To be of acquaintance
(gcide) | Acquaintance \Ac*quaint"ance\, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF.
acointance, fr. acointier. See Acquaint.]
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or
more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal
knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of
friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no
acquaintance with him.
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Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a
guileful man. --Sir W.
Jones.
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2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
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Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
--Macaulay.
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Note: In this sense the collective term acquaintance was
formerly both singular and plural, but it is now
commonly singular, and has the regular plural
acquaintances.
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To be of acquaintance, to be intimate.
To take acquaintance of or with, to make the acquaintance
of. [Obs.]
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Syn: Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge.
Usage: Acquaintance, Familiarity, Intimacy. These words
mark different degrees of closeness in social
intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional
intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief
one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate
acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued
acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently
together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve;
as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the
result of close connection, and the freest interchange
of thought; as, the intimacy of established
friendship.
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Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our
nearer acquaintance with him. --Addison.
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We contract at last such a familiarity with them
as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call
off our minds. --Atterbury.
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It is in our power to confine our friendships
and intimacies to men of virtue. --Rogers.
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To scrape acquaintance
(gcide) | Scrape \Scrape\ (skr[=a]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scraped; p.
pr. & vb. n. Scraping.] [Icel. skrapa; akin to Sw. skrapa,
Dan. skrabe, D. schrapen, schrabben, G. schrappen, and prob.
to E. sharp.]
1. To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or
rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens
by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly
over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required
condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an
instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure,
cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make
smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to
scrape a metal plate to an even surface.
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2. To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
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I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her
like the top of a rock. --Ezek. xxvi.
4.
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3. To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather
in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire
avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by
together or up; as, to scrape money together.
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The prelatical party complained that, to swell a
number the nonconformists did not choose, but
scrape, subscribers. --Fuller.
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4. To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as
a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the
floor; -- usually with down. --Macaulay.
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To scrape acquaintance, to seek acquaintance otherwise than
by an introduction. --Farquhar.
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He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed
ignominiously. --G. W. Cable.
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To take acquaintance of
(gcide) | Acquaintance \Ac*quaint"ance\, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF.
acointance, fr. acointier. See Acquaint.]
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or
more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal
knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of
friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no
acquaintance with him.
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Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a
guileful man. --Sir W.
Jones.
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2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
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Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
--Macaulay.
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Note: In this sense the collective term acquaintance was
formerly both singular and plural, but it is now
commonly singular, and has the regular plural
acquaintances.
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To be of acquaintance, to be intimate.
To take acquaintance of or with, to make the acquaintance
of. [Obs.]
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Syn: Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge.
Usage: Acquaintance, Familiarity, Intimacy. These words
mark different degrees of closeness in social
intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional
intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief
one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate
acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued
acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently
together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve;
as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the
result of close connection, and the freest interchange
of thought; as, the intimacy of established
friendship.
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Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our
nearer acquaintance with him. --Addison.
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We contract at last such a familiarity with them
as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call
off our minds. --Atterbury.
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It is in our power to confine our friendships
and intimacies to men of virtue. --Rogers.
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Unacquaintance
(gcide) | Unacquaintance \Un`ac*quaint"ance\, n.
The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of
acquaintance; ignorance.
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He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything
connected with that obnoxious cavity. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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Unacquainted
(gcide) | Unacquainted \Un`ac*quaint"ed\, a.
1. Not acquainted. --Cowper.
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2. Not usual; unfamiliar; strange. [Obs.]
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And the unacquainted light began to fear. --Spenser.
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Unacquaintedness
(gcide) | Unacquaintedness \Un`ac*quaint"ed*ness\, n.
Unacquaintance. --Whiston.
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acquaint
(wn) | acquaint
v 1: cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint
you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the
community" [syn: introduce, present, acquaint]
2: make familiar or conversant with; "you should acquaint
yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves
with the new surroundings" [syn: familiarize,
familiarise, acquaint]
3: inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to
move" |
acquaintance
(wn) | acquaintance
n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or
something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity,
conversance, conversancy]
2: a relationship less intimate than friendship [syn:
acquaintance, acquaintanceship]
3: a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble
remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are
friends of the family" [syn: acquaintance, friend] [ant:
alien, stranger, unknown] |
acquaintanceship
(wn) | acquaintanceship
n 1: a relationship less intimate than friendship [syn:
acquaintance, acquaintanceship] |
acquainted
(wn) | acquainted
adj 1: having fair knowledge of; "they were acquainted"; "fully
acquainted with the facts" |
quaintly
(wn) | quaintly
adv 1: in a strange but not unpleasant manner; "the old lady
expressed herself somewhat quaintly"
2: in a quaint old-fashioned manner; "the room was quaintly
furnished" |
quaintness
(wn) | quaintness
n 1: the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked
the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
2: strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some
words in her dialect had a charming quaintness" |
reacquaint
(wn) | reacquaint
v 1: familiarize anew; "We reacquainted ourselves with this
technique" |
unacquainted
(wn) | unacquainted
adj 1: not knowledgeable about something specified; "American
tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person
unacquainted with our customs" [syn: innocent(p),
unacquainted(p)]
2: having little or no knowledge of; "unacquainted with city
ways" [syn: unacquainted(p), unacquainted with(p),
unfamiliar with(p)] |
unacquainted with
(wn) | unacquainted with
adj 1: having little or no knowledge of; "unacquainted with city
ways" [syn: unacquainted(p), unacquainted with(p),
unfamiliar with(p)] |
acquaintance
(devil) | ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from,
but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight
when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or
famous.
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