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21acquaintance */ — UK [əˈkweɪntəns] / US noun Word forms acquaintance : singular acquaintance plural acquaintances 1) [countable] someone you know a little, who is not a close friend He recognized Mr Hunter as an old business acquaintance from his years in banking …
22acquaintance — (n.) c.1300, state of being acquainted; late 14c., person with whom one is acquainted; also personal knowledge; from O.Fr. acointance acquaintance, friendship, familiarity, noun of action from acointer (see ACQUAINT (Cf. acquaint)). Acquaintant… …
23Have a Cigar — Infobox Single Name = Have a Cigar Caption = Cover for French and Italian editions Artist = Pink Floyd from Album = Wish You Were Here B side = Welcome to the Machine (US single) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I V) (Italian and French singles) …
24be on nodding terms with someone — have a nodding acquaintance with someone/be on nodding terms with someone/ phrase to know someone well enough to say ‘hello’ to them, but not know them very well Thesaurus: words used to describe relations and relationshipshyponym friendship and… …
25acquaintance rape — ac quaintance .rape n [U and C] a crime in which a person forces someone they know to have sex with them = ↑date rape …
26nodding acquaintance — noun 1. : a very slight or superficial knowledge or understanding of something had no more than a nodding acquaintance with economic theory 2. : a person with whom one is on terms of casual and distant civility * * * 1. a slight, incomplete, or… …
27Knowledge by acquaintance — The contrasting expressions knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description [Lazerowitz (p.403) prefers direct knowledge and indirect knowledge for knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description respectively. The pursuit of… …
28a nodding acquaintance — a slight acquaintance with a person or cursory knowledge of a subject students will need a nodding acquaintance with three other languages * * * a nodding acquaintance : a small amount of knowledge about someone or something We only have a… …
29take up with — Synonyms and related words: abide, abide with, advise with, associate with, assort with, bargain, bear, bear with, befriend, bide, brave, brook, buddy up, call in, chum, chum together, chum with, clique, clique with, club together, collogue,… …
30List of Late Night with Conan O'Brien sketches — For a list of sketches that debuted on The Tonight Show with Conan O Brien, see List of The Tonight Show with Conan O Brien sketches. The following is a list of sketches which debuted on Late Night with Conan O Brien on NBC. Contents 1 Late Night …
