Familiarize vs Acquaintance - What's the difference?
familiarize | acquaintance |
To make, or become familiar with something or someone.
(uncountable) 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
* 1799 , '', in ''The Works , Volume 6,
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
* 1848 , , Chapter XVI:
As a verb familiarize
is to make, or become familiar with something or someone.As a noun acquaintance is
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.familiarize
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Alternative forms
* familiarise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(familiariz)acquaintance
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* acquaintaunceNoun
(en noun)- I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
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- Contract no friend?hip, or even acquaintance , with a guileful man : he re?embles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.
- Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.