Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an intimate manner; inwardly; closely; familiarly: as, to know anything intimately; two fluids intimately mixed; two writers intimately associated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an intimate manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
intimate manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with great or especially intimate knowledge
- adverb in a close manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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They refer, respectively, to the use of a part of a something as a descriptor for its entirety as in a "hand" for a farm worker and/or referring to the name of something by substituting a term intimately associated it, as in calling the government of the United States "The White House," as in "The White House had no official response to news that the head of the IMF had been official declared a Shanda for the Goyim."
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post 2011
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Everyone must know this title intimately by now, what with spin-off Railgun still running.
Anime Nano! 2010
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And yet, through love and loss, heartbreak and joy, exile and imprisonment, the two women remain intimately entwined.
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Having a preference for people you associate with intimately is not the same as refusing to sell a black person a Whopper.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010
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On the eve of the open rupture between the Roses, another name intimately associated with Ireland disappeared from the roll of the English nobility.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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On the eve of the open rupture between the Roses, another name intimately associated with Ireland disappeared from the roll of the English nobility.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Lifehacker readers are normally pretty allergic to debt, but if you’ve let your debt grow a bit too much and it’s become one of those things you avoid addressing at all costs, getting to know your debt more intimately is an important step in motivating yourself to tackle it.
Calculate The Monthly Cost Of Your Debt — Then Get Rid Of It | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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JE: I saw the movie for the first time at the premiere and had the same reaction to the first scene that I had when I first read Aaron's script, even though I knew the scene so intimately, which is that after two or three minutes of the scene you realize that it's not going to end.
Brad Balfour: Actor Jesse Eisenberg Creates A Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network Brad Balfour 2011
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But as art there is no doubt that the action is challenging for many to view so intimately, which is what makes the piece so powerful.
Two Feminists on Childhood and Sexuality in the Art of Amy Jenkins « Gender Across Borders 2010
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Then there's the question of whether a woman we didn't know as intimately as Us Weekly-style celeb could even be in the running for a presidential nomination.
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