Acquaint
verb
To provide someone with information or knowledge about something.
I will acquaint you with the new policies of our company.
Often appears as...
- acquaint someone with something
- acquaint oneself with
verb
To meet or come to know someone.
On my first day at work, I was acquainted with my colleagues.
Often appears as...
- acquaint oneself with
- make someone’s acquaintance
verb
To provide someone with information or knowledge about something.
I will acquaint you with the new policies of our company.
Often appears as...
- acquaint someone with something
- acquaint oneself with
verb
To meet or come to know someone.
On my first day at work, I was acquainted with my colleagues.
Often appears as...
- acquaint oneself with
- make someone’s acquaintance
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Knowledge Sharing
Used when introducing someone to new information or knowledge in detail.
Let's schedule a meeting to acquaint the team with the latest marketing strategies.
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Context
Often found in formal or professional settings where learning is involved.
The training session is designed to acquaint new employees with our work environment.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility
Can imply that providing information is someone's duty or responsibility.
The guide will acquaint tourists with the safety rules before the trip.
Pro Tip 1/3Knowledge Sharing
Used when introducing someone to new information or knowledge in detail.
Let's schedule a meeting to acquaint the team with the latest marketing strategies.
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Context
Often found in formal or professional settings where learning is involved.
The training session is designed to acquaint new employees with our work environment.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility
Can imply that providing information is someone's duty or responsibility.
The guide will acquaint tourists with the safety rules before the trip.
Pro Tip 1/3Knowledge Sharing
Used when introducing someone to new information or knowledge in detail.
Let's schedule a meeting to acquaint the team with the latest marketing strategies.
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Context
Often found in formal or professional settings where learning is involved.
The training session is designed to acquaint new employees with our work environment.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility
Can imply that providing information is someone's duty or responsibility.
The guide will acquaint tourists with the safety rules before the trip.
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Music and creativity in...
with music as we are today. In fact, music was such an important part of Ancient Greek society that it makes us seem tame by comparison. To really understand just how integral music was to the Ancient Greeks, let's begin by acquainting ourselves with a bit of their mythology. In Ancient Greek mythology,
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Life is messy. Embrace...
tired of gripping a makeshift reasoning I created to try and make order it was in those months following Leia's diagnosis that chaos and I became better acquainted now my bookshelf at home is still alphabetized and my rooms still clean but i dance-like I have something
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I am the son of a...
but I'm well acquainted with being judged for something that's beyond my control. Then there was "The Daily Show." On a nightly basis, Jon Stewart forced me to be intellectually honest with myself about my own bigotry and helped me to realize that a person's race,
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Watch a Masterpiece...
to the chin and all the sort of angles that make up a human face a sort of geometric head if you will the clay when you do a clay model of someone that's where you're working out the idea and you're getting acquainted with their face and you're talking to
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Understanding the Oceans...
places so that we can have a long and enduring future right here on earth we need to understand what's going on in the ocean we need to get acquainted with ocean wildlife the fish the octopuses the squids of course the dolphins and
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Cheetahs Play Football PIPE...
captivity we haven't got very well acquainted yet so I'm just going to feel my way through this I want to get too close because one lash from those feet could give me quite a nasty wound but the feet themselves are quite remarkable
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New nanotech to detect...
catching cancer when it first emerges. It is my hope and dream to help people around the world avoid the high costs -- physical, financial and emotional -- faced by today's cancer patients, hardships that I'm well acquainted with.
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Sleep Paralysis PIPE...
finally levitation the sensation of being lifted off the bed and even transported elsewhere put them together and you may have something strikingly familiar to a sleep researcher acquainted with UFO abduction stories I
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The myth of Narcissus...
He spent the day acquainting himself with every glinting angle and glowing curl then passed the evening gazing at his reflection by moonlight and sleeping with his fingers grazing the water.
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Why it's so hard to talk...
Why is talking about the N-word hard? Their answers are amazing. They're amazing. More than anything though, I have become deeply acquainted with my own points of encounter,
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Music and creativity in...
with music as we are today. In fact, music was such an important part of Ancient Greek society that it makes us seem tame by comparison. To really understand just how integral music was to the Ancient Greeks, let's begin by acquainting ourselves with a bit of their mythology. In Ancient Greek mythology,
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Life is messy. Embrace...
tired of gripping a makeshift reasoning I created to try and make order it was in those months following Leia's diagnosis that chaos and I became better acquainted now my bookshelf at home is still alphabetized and my rooms still clean but i dance-like I have something
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I am the son of a...
but I'm well acquainted with being judged for something that's beyond my control. Then there was "The Daily Show." On a nightly basis, Jon Stewart forced me to be intellectually honest with myself about my own bigotry and helped me to realize that a person's race,
Video examples
Watch a Masterpiece...
to the chin and all the sort of angles that make up a human face a sort of geometric head if you will the clay when you do a clay model of someone that's where you're working out the idea and you're getting acquainted with their face and you're talking to
Video examples
Understanding the Oceans...
places so that we can have a long and enduring future right here on earth we need to understand what's going on in the ocean we need to get acquainted with ocean wildlife the fish the octopuses the squids of course the dolphins and
Video examples
Cheetahs Play Football PIPE...
captivity we haven't got very well acquainted yet so I'm just going to feel my way through this I want to get too close because one lash from those feet could give me quite a nasty wound but the feet themselves are quite remarkable
Video examples
New nanotech to detect...
catching cancer when it first emerges. It is my hope and dream to help people around the world avoid the high costs -- physical, financial and emotional -- faced by today's cancer patients, hardships that I'm well acquainted with.
Video examples
Sleep Paralysis PIPE...
finally levitation the sensation of being lifted off the bed and even transported elsewhere put them together and you may have something strikingly familiar to a sleep researcher acquainted with UFO abduction stories I
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The myth of Narcissus...
He spent the day acquainting himself with every glinting angle and glowing curl then passed the evening gazing at his reflection by moonlight and sleeping with his fingers grazing the water.
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Why it's so hard to talk...
Why is talking about the N-word hard? Their answers are amazing. They're amazing. More than anything though, I have become deeply acquainted with my own points of encounter,
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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Jackson Pollock
American Artist
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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David Hume
Scottish Philosopher
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
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Shakuntala Devi
Indian Writer
Knowing more about numbers and being acquainted with them will not only enrich our lives but also contribute towards managing our day to day affairs much better.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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John Wooden
American Coach
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Novalis
German Poet
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Noureen DeWulf
American Actress
Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
Quote examples
Jackson Pollock
American Artist
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Quote examples
David Hume
Scottish Philosopher
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
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Shakuntala Devi
Indian Writer
Knowing more about numbers and being acquainted with them will not only enrich our lives but also contribute towards managing our day to day affairs much better.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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John Wooden
American Coach
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Novalis
German Poet
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Noureen DeWulf
American Actress
Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Example 1 of 10
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