Word Finder - embracing

definition

To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

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• fall on someone's neck

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To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.

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I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.

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To submit to; to undergo.

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• accept

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To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.

synonyms

• entwine
• surround

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To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.

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Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

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To fasten on, as armour.

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To accept (someone) as a friend; to accept (someone's) help gladly.

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To attempt to influence (a court, jury, etc.) corruptly; to practise embracery.

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The act of embracing (in various senses).

Frederick made introductions after embracing and kissing his wife.

The various shades of the sand are singularly rich and agreeable, embracing the different iron colors, brown, gray, yellowish, and reddish.

Stavanger commands a considerable tourist traffic. It is the starting-point of a favourite tour, embracing the fine valley of the Sand River, the great Lake Suldal and the Bratlandsdal.

Embracing recycled crafts is a good way to start going green.

She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her.

How happy I am! cried Natasha, shedding tears of joy and excitement and embracing her mother.

When this was done the preparation of a map, embracing territory 700 m.

The hills give the town a beautiful appearance, as the forest was allowed to remain closely embracing it, being preserved in the public ground named the Town Belt.

In the central, north-eastern and north-western sections, embracing the counties of Nye, Elko and Humboldt, the average annual rainfall varies from 7 to 8 in.; in the west-central section, at the foot of the Sierra, the average is about 10 in.

Depicting feudalism in the vivid colours of an age at war with feudal institutions, breathing into antique histories the breath of actual life, embracing the romance of Italy and Spain, the mysteries of German legend, the fictions of poetic fancy and the facts of daily life, humours of the moment and abstractions of philosophical speculation, in one homogeneous amalgam instinct with intense vitality, this extraordinary birth of time, with Shakespeare for the master of all ages, left a monument of the Re- naissance unrivalled for pure creative power by any other product of that epoch.

The organization of the Bond developed into one embracing the Transvaal, the Orange Free State and Cape Colony.

The first place is occupied by the iron industries, embracing foundries, furnaces, engineering and machine shops, &c. Next come cotton spinning and weaving, calico printing, yarn-spinning, dyeing and similar textile branches, besides a variety of other industries.

Kempf with a polarizing photometer; but by far the most comprehensive work of the kind is the Harvard Photometric Durchmusterung (1901-1903), embracing all stars to 7.5 magnitude, and extended to the southern pole by measurements executed at Arequipa.

There still remained unassigned the greater part of the Cherokee Strip besides a tract embracing 1,887,800 acres of choice land in the centre of the Territory, and the agitation for the opening of this to settlement by white people increased until in 1889 a complete title to the central tract was purchased from the Creeks and Seminoles.

Then, before D was united to P, five appendices of very various dates and embracing poetry as well as prose, were added so as to give a fuller account of the last days of Moses and thus lead up to the narrative of his death with which the book closes.

The town was first mentioned in 1242, and was formerly the capital of a principality embracing about 1200 sq.

Within the Castilian domain, thus embracing all in Spain that is neither Portuguese nor Catalan, there exist linguistic varieties which it would perhaps be an exaggeration.

The University of Nashville is a non-sectarian institution embracing a college department, a medical department, a preparatory department, and the George Peabody College for Teachers; it was incorporated under the laws of North Carolina as Davidson Academy in 1785 and under the laws of Tennessee as Cumberland College in 1806, and the present name was adopted in 1826.

The remaining books are strikingly original and are to be regarded as embracing Apollonius's own researches.

The fifth book contains properties of normals and their envelopes, thus embracing the germs of the theory of evolutes, and also maxima and minima problems, such as to draw the longest and shortest lines from a given point to a conic; the sixth book is concerned with the similarity of conics; the seventh with complementary chords and conjugate diameters; the eighth book, according to the restoration of Edmund Halley, continues the subject of the preceding book.

Owing to its situation on a navigable river and at the junction of several lines of railway, Glogau carries on an extensive trade, which is fostered by a variety of local industries, embracing machinery-building, tobacco, beer, oil, sugar and vinegar.

The Lower Coal Measures (Westphalian) have an enormously rich flora, embracing most of the types referred to in our systematic description.

Other newts, and many salamanders, whether terrestrial or aquatic, pair, the male embracing the female about the fore limbs or in the pelvic region, and the males of such forms are invariably devoid of ornamental secondary sexual characters; but in spite of this amplexation the same mode of fecundation by means of a spermatophore is resorted to, although it may happen that the contents of the spermatophore are absorbed direct from the cloaca of the male.

If this patch is also given a displacement in the direction of right angles by examining it in a steadily vibrating mirror, we see a wavy or oscillatory line of light which is an optical representation of the wave form of a current in the coils embracing the Braun tube.

International commercial arbitration is one of the most active parts of the Firm embracing several experts in the field.

This is brooding music, often slow, taking time to unfold, embracing extreme dissonance as well as tender, diatonic harmonies.

The Iraqis may celebrate their independence by embracing a long-suppressed fundamentalism, and the United States may respond by seeking to crush it.

Stubbornly embracing the American dream, desperate to be a hero, George dons superhero garb and performs good deeds.

Embracing the freedom that traveling with acoustic instruments brings.

The views he rejected can be seen as simply an all embracing liberalism, including both the classical and revisionist variants.

He gathered it into his arms an ardent lover embracing his sweetheart.

Instead of embracing free markets it abandoned them to corrupt cabals who then nationalized industry wholesale.

But we can avoid imperialism without embracing moral relativism.

Since she agreed with scholasticism in its practice of medicine, it would seem that she was embracing the scholastic tradition.

The emphasis seems to be more on embracing current trends than generating suspense.

He returned to Savoy in 1592, and, while seeking the occasion to overcome his father's resistance to his resolution of embracing the ecclesiastical profession, took the diploma of advocate to the senate.

The popes were now masters of a fine and compact territory, embracing no inconsiderable portion of Countess Matildas legacy, in addition to Pippins donation, and the patrimony of St Peter.

During this period the mark of Meissen lay on both banks of the Elbe, and stretched from Bohemia to the duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, embracing an area of about 3000 sq.

There is a tendency to eclectic views embracing the more attractive features of the various theories; and attempts are made to adapt, interpret and qualify the imagery and language of older formulae, in order so to speak, to issue them afresh in new editions, compatible with modern natural science, psychology and historical criticism.

The town has a citadel built by Vauban on a rock beside the river, and embracing in its enceinte ruins of an old Gothic château.

With progressive territorial extensions during the ensuing fifty years, and embracing the grand-duchy of Luxemburg, it had in 1871, when the German empire was founded, an area of about 209,281 sq.

Between these two extremes is every conceivable gradation, embracing aquatic and terrestrial herbs, creeping, erect or climbing in habit, shrubs and trees, and representing a much greater variety than is to be found in the other subdivision of seed-plants, the Gymnosperms.

It failed entirely in that year but in 1867 Lawrenceville, Peebles, Collins, Liberty, Pitt and Oakland, all lying between the two rivers, were annexed to Pittsburg; in 1872 there was a further annexation of a district embracing 27 sq.

Thus it includes (1) the governor-generalship of Turkestan, embracing the provinces of Ferghana, Samarkand, Semiryechensk, and Syr-darya; the provinces of Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk, and sometimes that of Turgai belonging to the governor-generalship of the Steppes; the Transcaspian region; and the semi-independent states of Bokhara and Khiva.

How is it? said the man--a singer and a wag--whom Morel was embracing.

The subjects were challenging, all embracing and leading edge - certainly difficult to reconcile with any notion of conventional compartmentalized learning.

His genius lay in embracing his followers in his fantasies of a modern, secularized version of the millenium.

In embracing this notion, teacher educators have found themselves with a dilemma.

Embracing the unknown can help you stay on the right side of the hubris/confidence line.

You'll have a much harder time accepting the end of your marriage and embracing the new life you have before you.