Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make known, recognized, or familiar.
- transitive verb To make acquainted with.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make familiar or intimate; render conversant by customary use, experience, or intercourse; acquaint closely: as, to
familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. - To accustom familiarly, as to the sight, knowledge, or practice of something; habituate; inure.
- . To make familiar in manner; cause to act or be exercised familiarly or affably.
- To make familiar in regard or experience; make well known; cause to be intimately considered or customary.
- Also spelled
familiarise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse.
- transitive verb To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb American To make, or become
familiar with something or someone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make familiar or conversant with
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Examples
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The process familiarizes a text to a medieval scholar, in a way like that by which human beings may be said to 'familiarize' their food.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The receptionist approached me (who I quickly recognized as the kindly-voiced super-sleuth that tracked me down yesterday) and she handed me a yellow piece of paper which I was to "familiarize" myself with.
amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2002
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NEWHART: You know, it really might facilitate things if I just, you know, sort of, read ahead a bit to kind of familiarize myself.
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With each set of cards, you can do five thing: First is "familiarize," when you can flip between sides of the cards to learn them.
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"We wanted to show our domestic weapans producers among others what needs our army had," Popovkin said, adding that Russia's weapon's industry had to "familiarize" itself with Israeli construction of the Israeli drone.
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Doc Jensen of EW. com has a detailed guide covering previous episodes you need to re-familiarize yourself with for Season 5.
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I suggest you familiarize yourself on the subject before posting your comments; you just make yourself look really dumb
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Worthington: No, I watched it before I started to familiarize myself.
Sam Worthington On Set Interview CLASH OF THE TITANS – Collider.com 2010
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Mat, please familiarize yourself with the history of tax “reform”.
Matthew Yglesias » Bipartisan Tax Reform and the Paradox of Presidential Involvment 2010
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Doc Jensen of EW. com has a detailed guide covering previous episodes you need to re-familiarize yourself with for Season 5.
January 2009 2009
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