familiarize
verb[T]
us/fəˈmɪl·jəˌrɑɪz/tolearnabout something:
Teachersneededto familiarize themselves with the newsoftware.
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familiarize
They were familiarized with the task before proceeding with the actual experiment.
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Copy-editing is now very often a freelance activity, and editors are no longer thoroughly familiarized with a particular style or practice.
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The book is consequently not overburdened with detail and written with a view to familiarizing those in authority with the practical importance of mosquito reduction.
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The children had been thoroughly familiarized with the story prior to their telling of it.
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During the fieldwork phase, the researchers familiarized themselves with the communities through informal observation and recruited families for the observational phase.
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In this phase children were familiarized with the notion that the bucket always contained an object.
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Subjects were first familiarized with examples (different from those in the experiments) of the specific effects to be tested.
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During this session, children also were familiarized with the experimental stimuli in a story, and then spontaneous use of the stimuli was evaluated by having the child re-tell the story.
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The ministers in 1828 were familiarizing themselves with policies bequeathed to them by a dead minister and a defunct government ; that the policy was scrutinized is not surprising.
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Next, they familiarized the children with a miniature toy mouse and were told that they would be hiding the mouse when the troll was not looking.
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Examining all the drains of a house also became a way of familiarizing them, in other words redefining them as integral rather than alien to the domestic establishment.
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At the first exposure session, for each event in turn, the experimenter first familiarized the children with the props by allowing them to manipulate them for a child-controlled period.
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A further problem was to get the fish used to the red-green random dot pattern after they had been familiarized to the black and white random dot pattern.
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I have not familiarized myself with it fully.
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He pioneered giving certifications, only after totally familiarizing himself with all the mechanical and chemical components of the food industry.
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