(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.
Standoffish
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He told the BBC that, "perhaps naively", he had expected the referendum campaign not to feature politicians so prominently, and he and Cameron could take a more "standoffish" stance.
(2) We were aware of his reputation for being unfiltered and upfront , and that he just says what he's thinking; he can be a bit standoffish, we were told.
(3) We were in a rehearsal room in midtown Manhattan – he walked in and was quite standoffish, quite short, quite like you would expect him.
(4) Yes, the liberals and Labour have all been very standoffish!
(5) Nor is this the only incident where the reader is obliged to take on Mrs Bennet's restricted views; compare the verdict on Darcy's standoffishness at his first public appearance: "His character was decided.
(6) The last Labour government and the present coalition had been "too standoffish as it applies to Scotland", Alexander said.
(7) Char Brown's husband, David, called Page "very standoffish" and "not real friendly".
(8) Honestly, I’m not interested in what’s happening in Russia.” * * * Putin cultivates an enigmatic, standoffish persona, but Kadyrov has no time for such subtlety.
(9) In the historic university town of Kairouan, there was a mosque just a few paces from the apartment he shared with four standoffish friends, but they almost never prayed there.
(10) Whether you love her music and persona or wish she’d vanish off the face of the earth, it’s rare to see a mainstream pop star who functions as both a standoffish auteur and a roaring commercial success – and seems to have a hand in just about every aspect of her creative output.