Tra từ intimate - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a close-knit/intimate circle (=a close one)
▪ His intimate circle was tiny.
an intimate connection (=a very close connection)
▪ There is an intimate connection between political liberty and economic freedom.
intimate knowledge (=knowledge about something because you are involved in it)
▪ He seemed to have an intimate knowledge of prison life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
connection
▪ Traditionally, an intimate connection has been seen between style and an author's personality.
▪ Mythologies all over the world describe the intimate connection, often antipathy, between birds and snakes.
contact
▪ He couldn't bear the intimate contact with other people.
▪ Was it a substitute for intimate contact?
▪ So what about sanitary towels and tampons: bleached products that also come into intimate contact with the human body?
▪ Whilst matrix isolation attempts to reproduce this situation, the target molecules are in intimate contact with the matrix material.
▪ They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network.
▪ Larger atoms, in less intimate contact, tend to have weaker bonds.
conversation
▪ I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast.
▪ I wonder where and when my father and my sister have had such intimate conversations.
▪ They looked as if they had already had a long and intimate conversation together.
▪ Still, my resolution as I write this is to work hard to find a ritual time for intimate conversations with Miles.
▪ There is also the taped evidence of an intimate conversation between Princess Diana and James Gilbey.
▪ It is degrading for both parties, and makes any serious or intimate conversation impossible.
▪ He's been helping me with my new computer were teenagers anti chose to and recently we had an intimate conversation.
detail
▪ How can Annie Murphy remember in such intimate detail things which happened 18 years ago?
▪ Mike was thoroughly embarrassed at having exposed intimate details of his life, but his classmates rallied around him.
▪ They shared no intimate details of their lives with each other.
experience
▪ These important nuances are often recognised only after a long and intimate experience of the couple under study.
▪ And music should be an intimate experience.
▪ They have intimate experience of what it means to be rejected, forgotten, isolated.
▪ Those who have made the trip say that nothing compares to the intimate experience of creeping along the bottom in a submersible.
▪ Such an approach has the merits of appearing commonsensical, according with our own intimate experiences.
▪ Performance artist Mat Bevel enhances the intimate experience with his sculptural creations and interpretive lighting.
▪ An intimate experience probably helped to change his mind.
friend
▪ I asked Kagan if he had come to me knowing that I was an intimate friend of the man concerned.
▪ Previously he played with lots of kids but had few intimate friends.
▪ After the war, most of Montparnasse would claim to have been intimate friends of Modigliani.
▪ In no time at all Alix became his intimate friend.
▪ She had no idea whether it was to be a large gathering, or just a few intimate friends.
▪ Robert Altman is not a close, intimate friend, but I have interviewed him over a period of 26 years.
knowledge
▪ I've often thought it might be better if I had more intimate knowledge.
▪ Naturally, they had an intimate knowledge of the terrain.
▪ While not insurmountable they can be overcome only by those with experience and intimate knowledge of police work.
▪ Without an intimate knowledge of haemoglobin it would be easy to dismiss them as random noise.
▪ This octavo volume of 310 pages, with plants arranged under 696 genera, proves his intimate knowledge of the estate.
▪ Not just for one night, but for several, and to develop an intimate knowledge of the local badger community.
▪ This allows suppliers to specialise and to develop an intimate knowledge of customer needs and wants.
▪ But it has the compelling authority that only intimate knowledge and great indignation can bring.
relationship
▪ Communication skills affect every area of life, from expressing feelings in intimate relationships to dealing with over-zealous shop assistants.
▪ But l wanted to step beyond that and explore what an intimate relationship would be.
▪ The commercialization of the press With time, the intimate relationship described above was to go through periods of stress and change.
▪ Mullican, too, continues to create cosmological imagery infused by his intimate relationship with the natural world.
▪ The only long-term, intimate relationships that Ally McBeal could have are with the mirror or the camera.
▪ The same is true in other intimate relationships.
▪ Patient E12 had only attended the class for two months in early 1991 during an intimate relationship with patient E8.
▪ It was hard to imagine him having a casual chat with anyone, let alone a more intimate relationship.
setting
▪ The luxurious dress, ornate chair and intimate setting reflect the rococo spirit of the period.
▪ Shielded by shadows, away from the world, in a safe and intimate setting, it is possible to talk.
▪ Simple division Being able to divide a living/dining room into two distinct areas means you can easily create an intimate setting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ intimate apparel
▪ Dinner was served in an intimate room with just two other tables.
▪ He knew Monet as an associate, if not an intimate friend.
▪ I saw that Brian was having an intimate conversation with an attractive young woman, and so I left quietly.
▪ She was asked about the most intimate details of her life.
▪ Some of the author's intimate correspondence was published after her death.
▪ Some people see nothing wrong with appearing on a TV show, and revealing their most intimate thoughts.
▪ They held hands, walked along the beach, and shared intimate secrets.
▪ You do not expect to see the most intimate details of your marriage splashed across the pages of the newspapers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Close and intimate friendships are characterised by commitment and vulnerability.
▪ Communities are overcrowded, with public facilities more often aimed at impersonal masses rather than stimulating intimate interaction.
▪ Gramm lately has attempted to soften his image, holding a series of intimate discussions with undecided voters in their kitchens.
▪ Minna, she and I are not intimate.
▪ Murder seemed to her too intimate, too similar to giving birth.
▪ Now they are talking intimate possibilities, so I slipped away.
▪ The only long-term, intimate relationships that Ally McBeal could have are with the mirror or the camera.
▪ These important nuances are often recognised only after a long and intimate experience of the couple under study.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I scanned the window for some new detail that would intimate we were getting closer to Moscow.
▪ This was not the first time his parents had intimated that they thought Fred only ordinarily able.
▪ To remain, Hennepin intimated, was to court deafness.
III. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had impressed Presidents and made himself an intimate of the great.
▪ His principles are so vague that even his intimates seem unable to put them into words.
▪ Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
▪ Saint-Gaudens and joseph jefferson were their intimates, Whitman had visited their studio.
▪ Some of his intimates were seriously concerned with his health.
▪ The two were intimates within fifteen minutes.
▪ We reserve the last 18 inches around our bodies for intimates.

intimate

I. in‧ti‧mate¹ /ˈɪntəmət, ˈɪntɪmət/ adjective
[date : 1600-1700; Origin : intime 'intimate' (1600-1700), from Latin intimus; ⇨ intimate²]
1. RESTAURANT/MEAL/PLACE private and friendly so that you feel comfortable:
　 ▪ the intimate atmosphere of a country pub
　 ▪ an intimate meal for two
　 ▪ The collection has been moved from its intimate setting to the British Museum.

2. FRIENDS having an extremely close friendship:
　 ▪ an intimate friend of Picasso’s
　 ▪ an intimate relationship
　 ▪ She’s on intimate terms with people in government.

3. intimate knowledge of something
very detailed knowledge of something as a result of careful study or a lot of experience:
　 ▪ his intimate knowledge of the coal industry

4. PRIVATE relating to very private or personal matters:
　 ▪ the publication of intimate details of their affair

5. SEX formal
a) relating to sex:
　 ▪ The virus can only be transmitted through intimate contact.
b) be intimate with somebody to have sex with someone

6. intimate link/connection etc
a very close connection between two things:
　 ▪ the intimate connection between physical and mental health

—intimately adverb:
　 ▪ The two aspects are intimately connected.
　 ▪ I am intimately acquainted with the state of my bank account.
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THESAURUS
▪private if something is private, you do not want most people to know about it because it concerns your feelings, your relationships etc :
　 ▪ He didn’t want to discuss his private life.
　 ▪ What happens in the bedroom is strictly private.
▪personal relating to your private life – used especially about problems, feelings, and questions :
　 ▪ They asked a lot of personal questions.
　 ▪ She talked about her own personal feelings.
　 ▪ I’d rather not talk about it – it’s personal.
　 ▪ The singer has had a lot of problems in her personal life.
▪secret [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]used about feelings and thoughts that you do not tell anyone about :
　 ▪ Barclay had a secret desire to become an actor.
　 ▪ His secret fear was that Jenny would leave him.
▪intimate very private – used about things relating to your relationships and sexual feelings :
　 ▪ an intimate conversation
　 ▪ Many people share intimate details of their lives on the Internet.
　 ▪ their intimate moments together
▪innermost [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]your innermost feelings, thoughts etc are your most private ones :
　 ▪ Counselling often encourages you to reveal your innermost thoughts.
▪be none of sb’s business if something is none of your business, it is private and you should not ask about it :
　 ▪ It’s none of your business how much I earn.
　 ▪ ‘Are you married?’ ‘That’s none of your business.’

II. in‧ti‧mate² /ˈɪntəmeɪt, ˈɪntɪmeɪt/ verb [TRANSITIVE] formal
[date : 1500-1600; Language : Late Latin; Origin : past participle of intimare 'to put in, announce', from Latin intimus 'furthest inside', from an unrecorded Latin interus; ⇨ interior²]
to make people understand what you mean without saying it directly
intimate that
　 ▪ He intimated, politely but firmly, that we were not welcome.
intimate something to somebody
　 ▪ She had already intimated to me her wish to leave.

III. in‧ti‧mate³ /ˈɪntəmət, ˈɪntɪmət/ noun [COUNTABLE] formal
a close personal friend