intimate relation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintimateandrelation
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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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relation
noun
uk/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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(Definition ofintimateandrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is perhaps a bit less odd when the close,intimaterelationbetween memory and attention is appreciated.
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Suffixes are bound morphemes and therefore find their lexical existence within the word, inintimaterelationwith the stem.
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This would certainly not be true for the lexicosemantic system, given itsintimaterelationwith parts of the visual system, as mentioned above.
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Hence, as one would expect, there is anintimaterelationbetween exceedances and deep returns to the vicinity of the critical point.
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Empirical research suggests that there is anintimaterelationbetween body motion and perception in contexts that typically are analyzed without reference to motion of the observer.
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You had the key to the position in developing on wider lines the oldintimaterelation.
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I do not apologise for doing so because of its extremelyintimaterelationto housing.
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But they had anintimaterelation.
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To my mind there is anintimaterelationbetween the number of accidents and the lack of inspectors.
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In summary, the current studies of the names that four-year-olds invent for artifacts reveal anintimaterelationbetween the functions of these artifacts and the derivations of the children's names.
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All three model parameters directly relate to quantities of immediate interest to speech recognition, reflecting anintimaterelationbetween modelling of word occurrence for speech recognition and information retrieval.
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The pauper funeral epitomized not the communal and familial values of the traditional funeral, nor theintimaterelationbetween soul and body that determined the shape of traditional burial practices.
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That is so, but the numbers of men and the question of their pay must bear a veryintimaterelationto each other.
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Our attitude in that matter will have a veryintimaterelationto the policy of this country in preventing another world war.
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But between rural district and parish councils there is anintimaterelation, and there is clearly everything to be said for combining their elections universally.
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The ideal is an administrative head directly in touch with the people and inintimaterelationwith all their executive officers.
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She lived in the house, and did all the house work, but when he attempted to obtain anyintimaterelationshe refused.
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My own feeling is that this will have to be dealt with by anintimaterelationbetween the institutions and industry.
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I do not believe that it had that close andintimaterelationwith franchise alterations which it is fashionable to say.
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Thisintimaterelationof doctor and patient where the individual sick are concerned, brings out all the attributes which belong to the practice of medicine at its best.
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As seen above, there is anintimaterelationbetween exchange rate policy (and hence reserves accumulation) and monetary policy.
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In other cultures, people rarely sleep with anyone but a mostintimaterelation, such as a spouse.
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It seems to me this is another illustration of the importance of a national policy, the social approach to a problem, and itsintimaterelationto the production of power.
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There is a very close andintimaterelationbetween the rate of interest on mortgage and the rent that the landlord is entitled to as owner of the house.
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