ACQUAINTANCE

[ə`kweɪnt(ə)ns]

знакомство

знакомый; знакомая

осведомлённость, знакомство

acquaintance: translation

1 person you know

▪ casual

▪

I ran into a casual acquaintance in town.

▪ new

▪ close, old

▪ business, childhood, mutual, personal, social

▪ bump into (esp. BrE), meet, run into

▪ greet

▪

He greeted all his old acquaintances.

▪ friends and acquaintances

2 knowledge of sb/sth

▪ nodding, passing, slight

▪

a man with whom I had a passing acquaintance

▪ brief, short

▪ close, intimate

▪ chance

▪ make sb's/sth's (= become acquainted with sb/sth)

▪

I first made his acquaintance in 2006.

▪ strike up

▪

I first met Simon in 1998 and struck up an acquaintance with him.

▪ renew

▪ of sb's acquaintance (formal)

▪

He introduced me to a reporter of his acquaintance.

▪ acquaintance with

▪

her acquaintance with modern philosophy

▪ have an acquaintance with

▪

They have little acquaintance with colloquial English.

▪ on close acquaintance, on closer acquaintance

▪ on first acquaintance

▪

On first acquaintance she seemed a little odd.

1. знакомство

2. (with) знание, осведомлённость

3. знакомый; знакомая

acquaintance: translation

account, acquaintedness, advocate, alter ego, amigo, announcement, appreciation, apprehension, associate, awareness, backer, best friend, blue book, bosom friend, briefing, brother, bulletin, casual acquaintance, close acquaintance, close friend, colleague, communication, communique, companion, comrade, confidant, confidante, consciousness, corpus, crony, data, datum, directory, dispatch, enlightenment, evidence, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, factual information, familiar, familiarity, familiarization, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, friend, gen, general information, grasp, guidebook, handout, hard information, incidental information, info, information, inseparable friend, instruction, intelligence, intimacy, intimate, introduction, inwardness, ken, knockdown, know-how, knowing, knowledge, light, lover, mate, mention, message, neighbor, notice, notification, other self, partisan, pickup, practical knowledge, presentation, private knowledge, privity, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, ratio cognoscendi, release, report, repository, self-knowledge, sidelight, statement, supporter, sympathizer, technic, technics, technique, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, understanding, well-wisher, white book, white paper, word

acquaintance [əˊkweɪntəns] n

1) знако́мство;

nodding (или bowing, passing) acquaintance ша́почное знако́мство

;

to make the acquaintance of smb., to make smb.'s acquaintance познако́миться с кем-л.

;

2) знако́мый;

• Of chance acquaintance beware - Будь друг, да не вдруг (Б), Не всякий встречный - друг сердечный (H)

• Short acquaintance brings repentance - Не всякий встречный - друг сердечный (H)

• Sudden short acquaintances bring repentance - Не всякий встречный - друг сердечный (H)

acquaintance: translation

acquaintance and description