intimate knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintimateandknowledge
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intimate
adjective
uk/ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/us/ˈɪn.t̬ə.mət/
having, or being likely to cause, a very close friendship or personal or ...
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knowledge
noun
uk/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofintimateandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofintimate knowledge
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As we have seen, he demonstrates anintimateknowledgeof its melodic figures and formulae, compositional principles and techniques.
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They haveintimateknowledgeof the process, and so can imagine it running.
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It required anintimateknowledgeof your prey and of your prey's environment.
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It is only through the author'sintimateknowledgeand keen writing that this aspect of producing samples comes to light.
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Control of vector populations requires anintimateknowledgeof population demography which includes estimating parameters such as survival, recruitment and ultimately population rate of increase.
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Especially in this latter category,intimateknowledgeand sober analysis may, in the best of cases, go happily hand in hand.
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She demonstrates both her passionate involvement andintimateknowledgeabout the education policy process, and includes some lovely nuggets of gossip about key players.
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He has undoubtedly worked his way through the available sources : the book reveals anintimateknowledge of the archival and published material on the subject.
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How can you choose directly from within this immense world of possibilities withoutintimateknowledgeor love?
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They dare to give their views about the necessary treatment without anintimateknowledgeof the patient.
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She convincingly argues for the power of literary narratives to expand ourintimateknowledgeof old age.
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For example, relationally aggressive children may benefit from training regarding the appropriate use ofintimateknowledgeof friends.
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Fox'sintimateknowledgeof the people and places of his project, coupled with the depth of his analysis, make this book extremely special.
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In taking music use and music consumption as its focus the book is not about the 'ownership' of music through performance, memorisation orintimateknowledgeof a score.
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Hisintimateknowledgeof the prevailing plainsong styles, here that of responsorial chant, and of the modal system permits him to create melodies that exploit and expand those conventions.
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Domestic servants testified about theirintimateknowledgeof their employers' personal lives, and, in so doing, provided the raw material for the courtroom revelations reported in detail by the press.
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Programmers rarely haveintimateknowledgeof the evaluation mechanism and it is therefore difficult for them to reason about the time and space complexity of a functional program.
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The insistence in managerial discourse upon their pragmatism and practical 'know-how' was intimately bound up with the manager's claims ofintimateknowledgeof and direct access to the workers.
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