Acquaintance
91scrape acquaintance with — dated contrive to get to know. → scrape …
92have a nodding acquaintance with somebody — have a nodding acˈquaintance with sb/sth idiom to only know sb/sth slightly Main entry: ↑nodidiom …
93have a nodding acquaintance with something — have a nodding acˈquaintance with sb/sth idiom to only know sb/sth slightly Main entry: ↑nodidiom …
94with — Acquaintance Ac*quaint ance, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See {Acquaint}.] 1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short …
95acquaintancerape — acquaintance rape n. Rape perpetrated by someone known to the victim. * * * …
96W.H., Mr. — ▪ acquaintance of Shakespeare person known only by his initials, to whom the first edition of William Shakespeare s (Shakespeare, William) sonnets (1609) was dedicated: To the onlie begetter of These insuing sonnets Mr. W.H. all happinesse… …
97knowledge — Acquaintance with fact or truth. People v. Henry, 23 Cal.App.2d 155, 72 P.2d 915, 921. It has also been defined as act or state of knowing or understanding, Witters v. U. S., 70 App.D.C. 316, 106 F.2d 837, 840; actual knowledge, notice or… …
98knowledge — Acquaintance with fact or truth. People v. Henry, 23 Cal.App.2d 155, 72 P.2d 915, 921. It has also been defined as act or state of knowing or understanding, Witters v. U. S., 70 App.D.C. 316, 106 F.2d 837, 840; actual knowledge, notice or… …
99Knowledge by description — The contrasting expressions knowledge by description and knowledge by acquaintance were promoted by Bertrand Russell, who was extremely critical of the equivocal nature of the word know , and believed that the equivocation arose from a failure to …
100Mary's room — (also known as Mary the super scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article Epiphenomenal Qualia (1982) and extended in What Mary Didn t Know (1986). The argument is intended to motivate what is often… …
