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AFFINITY

найдено в "Англо-русском большом универсальном переводческом словаре"
[ə`fɪnɪtɪ]
сходство, близость
близость, сходство
родство по мужу или жене
привлекательность
влечение, тяга, тяготение
сродство
родовое сходство


найдено в "Collocations dictionary"
affinity: translation

noun
ADJECTIVE
close, great, real, special, strong

I felt a great affinity with the people of the islands.

natural

He has a natural affinity with numbers.

… OF AFFINITY
degree, level
VERB + AFFINITY
feel, have, share

It's important that you share an affinity with your husband.

A house design should have some affinity with the surrounding architecture.

display, show

His work shows some affinity with current trends in design.

PREPOSITION
affinity between

an affinity between the two women

There is a close affinity between these two species.

affinity for

Many girls do show an affinity for craft skills.

affinity towards/toward

Jo feels a great affinity towards/toward Pamela.

affinity with

an affinity with animals

She felt an affinity with earlier poets.



найдено в "Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses"
Affinity: translation

   In fifteenth-century England, an affinity was a web of political and social connections constructed by a nobleman, either on the basis of royal favor and personal political standing or on the basis of family and territorial influence. A noble created an affinity by assembling a band of followers, known as RETAINERS, who were sworn to provide their lord with legal, political, or military service in return for money. Retainers also expected that the lord’s influence would be exercised on their behalf in legal proceedings and in pursuit of office and other rewards. Retainers signaled their attachment to a lord’s affinity by wearing his livery (i.e., uniform) or his BADGE or emblem. The dispersal of fees and wages by a magnate to the members of his affinity was the heart of the social system known as BASTARD FEUDALISM. Although individual retainers could be household servants or legal or financial advisors, a large affinity above all provided its lord with a military force that could be used both to support and threaten the Crown. Although not private armies because they were rarely kept under arms for long, noble affinities formed the core of royal forces sent to FRANCE or used to crush internal rebellion. During the WARS OF THE ROSES, such affinities constituted the bulk of the military forces raised by both parties. Although attempts were made through PARLIAMENT to limit retaining, the Crown, dependent on noble affinities for military strength, sought only to control such groupings. An example of an affinity created on the basis of personal influence was the one constructed by William HASTINGS, Lord Hastings, whose peerage and estates derived from his close friendship with EDWARD IV. Hastings’s influence with the king attracted many members of the GENTRY to his affinity, which was soon extensive and therefore a valuable resource for the house of YORK in military emergencies. During his 1471 campaign to regain the Crown, Edward’s initially thin forces were soon swollen by the arrival of loyal members of Hastings’s affinity (see Edward IV, Restoration of).In 1483, control of such military potential made Hastings a danger to Richard, duke of Gloucester (see Richard III, King of England); when he began to fear that Hastings might mobilize his affinity on behalf of EDWARD V, Gloucester ordered Hastings’s summary execution (see Council Meeting of 13 june 1483).
   A powerful and extensive connection based on family loyalty and landholding, as well as on personal political influence,was the Neville affinity, controlled after 1460 by Richard NEVILLE, earl of Warwick. The most influential subject in the realm during the early years of Edward IV, and possessing a mighty military reputation (see Generalship), Warwick could also draw on a deeply engrained loyalty to his family among the gentry of the north, where the Neville lands were concentrated. When Warwick brought this affinity into alliance with the house of LANCASTER in 1470, he was able to restore HENRY VI to the throne. After Warwick’s death in 1471, Edward IV ensured that his brother Gloucester, the husband of Warwick’s daughter Anne NEVILLE, became heir to the family loyalty and territorial power upon which the Neville affinity was based.
   See also Livery and Maintenance; Neville Family; North of England and the Wars of the Roses; Peerage
   Further Reading: Hicks, Michael, Bastard Feudalism (London: Longman, 1995);Walker, S., The Lancastrian Affinity, 1361-1399 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
   See also Badges; Bastard Feudalism; Livery and Maintenance; Retainers


найдено в "Moby Thesaurus"
affinity: translation

Synonyms and related words:
a thing for, accord, accordance, addition, adduction, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, agape, agreement, alikeness, alliance, allurement, amity, analogy, approximation, aptitude, aptness, assemblage, assent, association, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, bag, bent, bias, bond, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, capillarity, capillary attraction, caritas, cast, cement of friendship, centripetal force, charity, chorus, chosen kind, chumminess, closeness, coherence, coincidence, combination, communion, community, community of interests, comparison, compatibility, conatus, concert, concord, concordance, conduciveness, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeneracy, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, connateness, connaturality, connaturalness, connature, connectedness, connection, consistency, consonance, consort, contiguity, contrariety, cooperation, correspondence, cup of tea, dealings, deduction, delight, diathesis, disjunction, disposition, drag, draw, druthers, eagerness, empathy, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, familiarity, family connection, family favor, family likeness, fancy, fascination, favor, feeling for, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, fondness, frictionlessness, friendliness, generic resemblance, good vibes, good vibrations, gravitation, gravity, happy family, harmony, homology, identity, inclination, inseparableness, intercourse, intersection, intimacy, intimate acquaintance, junction, kinship, leaning, liability, liaison, like-mindedness, liking, link, linkage, linking, love, magnetism, marital affinity, marriage connection, marriage relationship, mateyness, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, mutuality, nearness, oneness, overlap, palliness, parallelism, partiality, particular choice, peace, penchant, personal choice, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, propinquity, proximity, pull, pulling power, rapport, rapprochement, readiness, reciprocity, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, resemblance, self-consistency, semblance, sensitivity to, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, soft spot, solidarity, special affinity, style, susceptibility, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, tally, taste, team spirit, tendency, thing, tie, tie-in, timing, traction, tropism, tug, turn, twist, type, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, warp, weakness, willingness


найдено в "Новом большом англо-русском словаре"
[əʹfınıtı] n
1. близость, (духовное) родство; сходство

close affinity between smb., smth. - тесная связь [-ое родство] между кем-л., чем-л.

spiritual affinity - духовная близость

there is much affinity between them - у них много общего; они очень близки

2. 1) (взаимная) склонность, симпатия

he feels a strong affinity for /to/ her - его сильно влечёт к ней

affinity for dancing - любовь к танцам

2) предмет симпатии, родная душа
3. юр.
1) свойство, родство по мужу или жене

related by affinity - связанный свойством

2) собир. свойственники, родня мужа или жены
4. сходство, структурная близость

affinity of languages - сходство или родство языков

5. хим. сродство
6. биол. родовое сходство; филогенетическая близость


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