acquainted

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If you expected it to work, it means you're just not acquainted with the tool/language.

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Quick take

(often followed by with) Personally known; familiar.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of acquainted gathered in one view.

adjective

(often followed by with) Personally known; familiar.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for acquainted.

adjective

(often followed by with) Personally known; familiar.

Example sentences

If you expected it to work, it means you're just not acquainted with the tool/language.

So as a future professional programmer, your friend would be well advised to become acquainted with several programming languages.

They instead were well acquainted with a popular theory that said trade and economic interdependence reduces the risk of war.

Certainly a matter of personal preference, but a sprinkling of operators isn't so bad once you're acquainted with the language.

Actually, Vim doesn't change that much throughout the time, so once you're acquainted with it, you no longer need to learn constantly.

I would encourage HN readers to become acquainted with Industrial Farming and it's issues and surrounding controversy.

It's a matter of incentive; if their job required computers, and they value having a salary, anyone can become adequately acquainted with the computer.

Yet anyone who is acquainted to programming and web dev would say that running the Rails generator does not obviate the use of programming.

No, I said I was faintly acquainted with Urbit's code --- meaning, I've read through it, but hadn't retained much.

I am acquainted with one of the members of the original HyperCard team, but he says his old floppies are no longer readable.

I was one of the people behind Fringeware, well-acquainted with the Mondo crew.

In the example I'm best acquainted with, the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado, their early reporting was as good as anyone from the outside.

Quote examples

If you're a bar goer you should be well acquainted with the archetype - the person who "doesn't smoke" but the moment they're inebriated they start hitting others up for a cigarette or four.

That Urbit itself is a relatively obscure project with very few users and was accepted to Strange Loop as a sort of, "huh, interesting" kind of thing, by a panel not fully acquainted with "Moldbug"?

Additionally, readers who are not very acquainted should know that PsychologyToday is not a respectable publication in psychology, and is regularly embroiled in issues with propping up "we are telling the truth that nobody wants to hear about white supremacy".

), in the Netherlands formal address is used for people "one does not know, or is only slightly acquainted with." For us Americans it is hard to understand why it'd be a problem being too friendly -- you are simply trying to be nice and signaling that you are cordial and open, right?