(v. t.) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act.
(v. t.) To familiarize; to accustom.
Example Sentences:
(1) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(2) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(3) The evaluation indicates that the flexibility of this form of recorded material can make several unique contributions to the teaching program, in acquainting students with clinical problems, in simulating expensive equipment, and encouraging students to use the literature.
(4) One described the mutilated bodies of three acquaintances – two women and a 14-year-old boy – found in their homes.
(5) None of us is locked into a harness on a bench, being made unwillingly acquainted with tobacco products.
(6) The pathomechanism of this complication origin and significance of its acquaintance was discussed.
(7) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
(8) Some 30-40% of them had no contacts with friends or acquaintances.
(9) Life events were assessed by reports on the numbers of lovers, friends, and acquaintances who were diagnosed with AIDS or had died of AIDS and by scores on a checklist of 24 more general serious stressor events.
(10) The test explored the conditions of the arteriolar tree and acquainted us with the degree of the ischemic damage and the functional value of the interhemispheric arterial collateral circle.
(11) This article reviews literature since 1980 on college men as perpetrators of acquaintance rape and other forms of sexual assault.
(12) Because safe, effective treatment for established viral hepatitis is not available, physicians need to be acquainted with recent advances in prophylaxis.
(13) And the Prophet (peace be upon him) was considered the master of the global Islamic message; it was necessary for him to be acquainted with what was happening around him in the neighbouring states, and knowing their latest affairs and thus inviting them to Islam.
(14) The authors suggest that the difficulties in diagnosing gluten enteropathies in adults are due to the lack of biopsy capsules, low acquaintance of physicians with this disease, and indications to small intestine biopsy.
(15) Topics include (1) the definition and incidence of acquaintance rape and sexual assault; (2) perpetrator characteristics; (3) situations associated with sexual assault; and (4) men's misperception of women's sexual intent.
(16) Acute hepatitis E was associated with recent contact with a family member or acquaintance with jaundice and the presence of indoor plumbing.
(17) This experiment examined an interpersonal-process view of depression by assessing subjects' reactions to a request for help from a hypothetical depressed or nondepressed person with whom they had been acquainted for a relatively short (2 weeks) or long (1 year) period of time.
(18) But she was also, the acquaintance said, "still very conscious of being the daughter of Aung San".
(19) As in the probing of any violent demise, accurate identification, management, and preservation of all physical evidence; complete photographic documentation of the scene and the body; reconstruction of the scene; and interviews with the family and acquaintances (psychological autopsy) are mandatory for proper study, evaluation, and interpretation of the case.
(20) The latter point seems to be one that meets with general agreement among acquaintances and admirers (only one person I spoke to made any statement about “Nick being primarily a poet”).
Apprise
Definition:
(v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.
(n.) Notice; information.
Example Sentences:
(1) As patient advocate, it is imperative nurses be apprised of the laws in their states regarding living wills.
(2) Those responsible for reimbursement of healthcare costs should be apprised of its value.
(3) Apprised of his skills, Ben-Gurion appointed Peres head of mobilisation for the Haganah underground in 1947.
(4) This knowledge deficit doesn't exist: you won't meet anybody on Earth more intricately apprised of calorie content than someone who is obese.
(5) The underlying causes of this indifference by governments and international bodies concerned with health and socioeconomic development are presented to apprise governments of malarious countries of certain imperative facts that have to be accepted when seriously considering malaria control schemes in their health plans.
(6) Precise pathologic study must be available, however, and the patient must be apprised of this compromise in management and be willing to be examined frequently for evidence of recurrent disease.
(7) Pathologists should be apprised of the importance of their ability to discriminate colour, and that formal colour vision testing of prospective histopathologists may be appropriate.
(8) To recommend a well-balanced program, it will be necessary for the Advisory Committee to assess the current state of the art of nutrition in cancer etiology and therapy and to be apprised of current opportunities, needs, and resources.
(9) Maryland dentists also need to be apprised of federal initiatives concerning tobacco use interventions.
(10) "We consider that James Murdoch's failure to apprise himself of this information, given the information which he accepts he knew, fell short of the exercise of responsibility to be expected of the chief executive officer and the chairman," Ofcom said.
(11) Eleven subjects agreed to an additional clarification interview, at which time they were apprised of the discrepancies.
(12) The latter are movies that never made a serious effort to be good, movies whose titles are white flags sent up by the studio, apprising the public that the entire production threw in the towel early.
(13) The aim of the study was to apprise the benefit derived from vaccination against Japanese encephalitis (JE) in Assam.
(14) "What I think has excited the White House is that it does put the president in a leadership role, but it is not aimed at what Congress can do, or what he can do per se , so much as it is aimed at apprising the American public about how they can act."
(15) Such consent is valid only if the patient has been apprised of the nature, significance and risks of the anaesthetic method to be used.
(16) Conversely, when apprised of their existence, imagers should know where their related effects may be sought or anticipated.
(17) A whiteboard kept patients apprised of delays in all clinics (30 to 40 minutes, across the board).
(18) The software interactively apprises students of the performance of their protocol in terms of its diagnostic accuracy against the cases.
(19) Plath, who has already apprised her husband of two earlier suicide attempts, resents his way with the ladies, and begins to suspect that he is having an affair.
(20) Though it is impossible to draw definitive conclusions after just two games, it is hard not to assess Chelsea’s squad and apprise a lack of goals and general attacking variety compared to their likely competitors.