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familiarize - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb transitive verb
from The Century Dictionary.
familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. familiarise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb transitive verb
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
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The process familiarize s 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
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
NEWHART: You know, it really might facilitate things if I just, you know, sort of, read ahead a bit to kind of familiarize myself.
CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2002 2002
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.
GearFire - Tips for Students 2009
"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.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009
Doc Jensen of EW. com has a detailed guide covering previous episodes you need to re-familiarize yourself with for Season 5.
Tube Bits for 01/14/08 2009
I suggest you familiarize yourself on the subject before posting your comments; you just make yourself look really dumb
Race Mixing Is Communism | My[confined]Space 2009
Worthington: No, I watched it before I started to familiarize myself.
Sam Worthington On Set Interview CLASH OF THE TITANS – Collider.com 2010
Mat, please familiarize yourself with the history of tax “reform”.
Matthew Yglesias » Bipartisan Tax Reform and the Paradox of Presidential Involvment 2010
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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