"acquaintance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

acquaintance sustantivo

sustantivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 6
business acquaintance • family acquaintance • childhood acquaintance • chance acquaintance • school acquaintance • ...
acquaintance + verbo
Kolokacji: 14
acquaintance says • acquaintance describes • acquaintance tells • acquaintance makes • acquaintance includes • ...
verbo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 11
renew one's acquaintance • make the acquaintance • tell acquaintances • claim acquaintance • visit acquaintances • ...
adjetivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 39
old acquaintance • new acquaintance • mutual acquaintance • casual acquaintance • close acquaintance • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) mutual, common, closest
Kolokacji: 3
(3) casual, mere, thorough
Kolokacji: 3
1. casual acquaintance = przelotna znajomość, powierzchowna znajomość (np. z osobą z pracy) casual acquaintance
2. mere acquaintance = zwykły znajomy mere acquaintance
  • During these years he saved a competence and gained a thorough acquaintance with the theory and practice of finance.
  • His letter published in Kirchheim's Karme Shomeron shows his thorough acquaintance with Samaritan.
  • Such a study would not be enough for a thorough acquaintance, of course.
  • Moreover, he possessed tact and a thorough acquaintance with the forms of the House of Commons.
  • In this way he gained a thorough acquaintance with the resources of the old masters, resources which he later put to use in his works through a modern idiom.
  • This is especially obvious in Matter and Memory, where he showed a thorough acquaintance with the extensive pathological investigations which had been carried out during the period.
  • The notes and the accompanying life of Virgil manifest a thorough acquaintance with both poem and poet.
  • We made our first thorough acquaintance with the Kovalenkos at the headmaster's name-day party.
  • He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life, and left a number of more or less witty stories dealing with it.
  • Aside from wanting me to gain a thorough acquaintance with the music, my father had a particular reason for giving me this bountiful present.
(5) personal, social, friendly
Kolokacji: 3
(6) nodding, female, male
Kolokacji: 3
(8) slight, better, superficial
Kolokacji: 3
(9) professional, literary
Kolokacji: 2
(10) wide, limited, extensive
Kolokacji: 3
(11) distant, deep, vague
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 12
with acquaintances • to acquaintances • of one's acquaintance • from acquaintances • on acquaintance • ...

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