(a.) Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.
(a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.
(a.) Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.
(a.) Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
(n.) An intimate; a companion.
(n.) An attendant demon or evil spirit.
(n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(2) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(3) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
(4) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(5) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(6) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
(7) We're all familiar with this approach, which is based around meeting targets, and it's true that it got things done.
(8) The models provide structure and methods that are familiar to practicing nurses so that they may begin to work with colleagues and other researchers in the clinical setting.
(9) All subjects were tested on a variety of automated performance tests including the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) Task, Auditory-Visual Integration, Short-Term Memory, the Continuous Performance Task (CPT), and Motor Performance.
(10) These results suggest that the exposure-duration effect previously reported in hyperacuity studies is not specific to the localization task per se but rather is a suprathreshold version of the familiar form of spatiotemporal interaction seen in contrast-threshold results.
(11) The increased knowledge of endocrinology, cytobiology and embryology has also made stock farmers familiar with biotechnology.
(12) Read more Clinton spoke before more than a thousand supporters on Saturday at a launch event for “Women for Hillary” in New Hampshire, touching upon many of the familiar themes of her presidential campaign – equal pay for women, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage.
(13) Pediatricians are made familiar with antiviral drugs and are provided with specific recommendations for treatment of viral diseases.
(14) We describe the application of generalized linear model methodology to the problem of testing differences among ligand-receptor interactions, and show that the method is analogous to weighted least squares regression methodology and F tests familiar to many investigators.
(15) Many Iranian women are already pushing the boundaries , and observers in Tehran say women who drive with their headscarves resting on their shoulders are becoming a familiar sight.
(16) Therefore, it is incumbent upon clinicians to know the signs and symptoms of using steroids, and to be familiar with the clinical indications for urine testing.
(17) in conscious, unrestrained rats in a familiar environment.
(18) Unfamiliar-object-dominant neurons (n = 7) responded more to unfamiliar objects than to familiar objects.
(19) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(20) These results show that transthoracic Doppler echocardiography remains an excellent method of study and surveillance of mechanical valve prostheses but the limitations of the technique should be familiar to all operators.
Nostalgia
Definition:
(n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(2) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
(3) As I enjoy my individual freedom in South Korea, I don’t really have any nostalgia for North Korea.
(4) Breathes has been smoking cannabis for more than half his life, but he has no nostalgia for the old days, no regrets about the industry becoming commercialised.
(5) Duran Duran, Phil Collins and the Human League helped Absolute Radio top 4 million listeners across its seven-strong network for the first time, powered by a strong performance by nostalgia station Absolute 80s.
(6) She has also impressed the rank and file with her tough talking to the Police Federation, vowing to break its power and bringing to an end its closed-shop practices, sending many Tories of a certain age into ecstasies of Thatcherite nostalgia.
(7) In Ethiopia the word for nostalgia is tizita , Wildschut points out, which is also the word for a style of music.
(8) As Trump’s dystopia becomes a reality, the nostalgia for his calm, measured and consensual solutions has begun early.
(9) 12.21pm BST A-level results always seem to provoke outpourings of nostalgia.
(10) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
(11) Sentamu came here as a refugee, an asylum seeker, and has a real passion for the underdog, yet in some ways his dream of Britain is closer to the back-to-the-50s nostalgia of Ukip (although not their policies) than to the modern Labour party.
(12) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(13) The anxieties fuelling France’s populism echo those of Geert Wilders and Donald Trump supporters, including “democratic fatigue” and nostalgia for how life supposedly once was.
(14) He concludes: "If journalists, for reasons of nostalgia, inertia, confusion or misplaced loyalty, choose to keep swimming with the privacy intruders, they may well drown with them."
(15) Nostalgia has had its niche in pop ever since 70s stars such as Showaddywaddy and the late Les Gray of Mud cheerfully recycled the rhythms and quiffs of the 50s.
(16) Berman remarked in 2000 that "I confess (and it isn't hard to detect), I am guilty of nostalgia for the 60s, days of my youth."
(17) Some express nostalgia for the manicured city centre of the old days.
(18) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
(19) In part, it began as a bit of nostalgia for him – "I did it every Friday night when I was at college.
(20) Surely any warm glow we might feel about HMV nostalgia deserves dousing with the news that gift vouchers some bought at the shop over Christmas are now invalid .