Word Finder - intimate

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A very close friend.

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Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.

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(in plural intimates) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.

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You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.

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To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.

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He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.

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To notify.

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I will intimate you when the details are available.

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Closely acquainted; familiar.

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He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.

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Of or involved in a sexual relationship.

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She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.

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Personal; private.

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an intimate setting

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Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.

This new method was like being intimate with a stranger.

In a few weeks he'll know your most intimate secrets.

Surprised by the intimate motion that seemed meant to comfort her, Deidre glanced up at him before nuzzling his neck.

The intimate moment was gone, replaced by the tension that always filled the space between them.

He was a good scholar and mixed with the best literary society, being an intimate friend of Alexander Pope.

First, it will consider all your friends, people with whom you have actual intimate relationships, and it will look at where they go for Italian food.

Surely Alex had been intimate with other women.

She felt comfortable enough now to approach that intimate conversation.

The intimate moment almost made her want to cry in frustration.

Then added, in a mocking voice, 'We were intimate, and all our old love came flowing back!'

If she needed to start talking to him about intimate things, this was a good one.

He wanted to sweep her away for one last intimate moment before his death but doubted the assassin and demon would wait.

Anytime we're intimate; we're making love.

We were never intimate — not before or after our marriage.

He jerked the robe from her hand and pulled her close in an intimate embrace, forcing his lips down on hers hungrily.

It was strange, but the idea felt intimate.

A few intimate friends were dining with the Rostovs that day, as usual on Sundays.

A'Ran's warm chest was at her back, his intimate touch on her stomach making her feel far more delicate than she ever had.

Something warmer and more intimate.

This intimate restaurant is open nightly for dinner and requires business casual dress.

His journals, which were written for his family and intimate friends, give a singularly interesting and vivid picture of life in Paris in the time of the directory.

In psychology, his view of the intimate union of soul and body is remarkable.

To them and to a few friends with whom she is in closest sympathy she writes with intimate frankness whatever she is thinking about.

When she is talking with an intimate friend, however, her hand goes quickly to her friend's face to see, as she says, "the twist of the mouth."

On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance.

For special occasions or intimate moments, silk is a sensual choice.

Deyverdun, a young Swiss with whom he had formed a close and intimate friendship during his first residence at Lausanne, and finally decided in favour of the land which was his " friend's by birth " and " his own by adoption."

But again Muller made his third " tribe " Picarii also to contain the Tyrannidae, of which mention has just been made, though it is so obvious as now to be generally admitted that they have no very intimate relationship to the other families with which they are there associated.

When zinc is placed on the lead (heated to above the melting-point of zinc), liquefied and brought into intimate contact with the lead by stirring, gold, copper, silver and lead will combine with the zinc in the order given.

The connexion is not so intimate in Scorpio, but is nevertheless a very close one, closer than we find in any other Arthropods in which the arterial system is well developed, e.g.

Scorpio certainly comes nearer to Limulus in the high development of its arterial system, and the intimate relation of the anterior aorta and its branches to the nerve centres and great nerves, than does any other Arthropod.

Of all his English friends none seem to have been so intimate with him as the 1st marquess of Lansdowne, better known as Lord Shelburne, and Mr, afterwards Sir Samuel, Romilly.

His friends speak of his charm and gaiety in intimate intercourse, but among strangers he was silent and awkward, and produced the impression of being reserved and disdainful.

Thence he went to Kohistan, where the governor, Nasir Lek, was his intimate and devoted friend, and received him with great ceremony upon the frontier.

Here we must mention the intimate connexion between classification and geographical distribution as revealed by the palaeontological researches of Alphonse Milne-Edwards, whose magnificent Oiseaux Fossiles de la France a.

It must not, however, be forgotten that Justin is here speaking as the apologist of Christianity to an educated Pagan public, on whose philosophical view of life he had to base his arguments, and from whom he could not expect an intimate comprehension of the religious position of Christians.

After being educated at the high school of Edinburgh and at Durham, he attended the literary and law classes at the university of Edinburgh, and becoming in 1810 a member of the Edinburgh faculty of advocates, he for some time enjoyed the intimate acquaintance of Cockburn, Jeffrey, Scott and other distinguished men whose talent then lent lustre to the Scottish bar.

Medical science has never gauged, perhaps never enough set itself to gauge the intimate connexion between moral fault and disease.

To the Normans particularly the Crusades had an intimate appeal.

These posterior brain-lobes, which in all Heteronemertines are in direct continuity of tissue with the upper pair of principal lobes, cease to have this intimate connexion in the Metanemertini; and, although still constituted of (I) a ciliated duct, opening out externally, (2) nervous tissue surrounding it, and (3) histological elements distinctly different from the nervous, and most probably directly derived from the oesophageal outgrowths, they are nevertheless here no longer constantly situated behind the upper brain-lobes and directly connected with them, but are found sometimes behind, sometimes beside and sometimes before the brain-lobes.

He was the traditional king of Sipylus in Lydia (or of Phrygia), and was the intimate friend of Zeus and the other gods, to whose table he was admitted.

Marca's biography was written in Latin by two of his intimate friends, Etienne Baluze, his secretary (Epistola ad Samuelem Sorbierium, de vita, gestis et scriptis Petri de Marca, Paris, 1663), and his cousin, Paul de Faget (at the beginning of a collection of Marca's theological pamphlets, first published by Paul de Faget in 1668).

Manasse (German patent 73,279) prepared an intimate mixture of phenol and potassium carbonate, which is then heated in a closed vessel with carbon dioxide, best at 130 -160 C. The Chemische Fabrik vorm.

During these years Chastellain had ample opportunity of obtaining an intimate knowledge of French affairs, but on the further breach between the two princes, Chastellain left the French service to enter Philip's household.

The sons of the family were familiarized with vice, and the general tone of the younger generation was lowered by their intimate association with a despised and degraded class.

He became involved in a controversy with Joseph Justus Scaliger, formerly his intimate friend, and others, wrote Ecclesiasticus auctoritati Jacobi regis oppositus (1611), an attack upon James I.

The social unification produced by the conquests of Alexander brought the Jews into intimate relations with Greek thought.

He soon became intimate with Schleiermacher and de Wette, and was associated with them in 1819 in the redaction of the Theologische Zeitschrift.

More intimate relations with western Europe and a pretty general study of the French language and literature, together with the steady progress of the reforming tendency fairly started under Mahmud II., resulted in the birth of the new or modern school, whose objects are truth and simplicity.

Nevertheless, the remarkable general agreement of the numbers in the four columns is quite enough to show the intimate connexion between chemical activity and electrical conductivity.