familiarizing
Learning the ropes
Familiarizing is the process of becoming acquainted with something or making it known to others.
You familiarize yourself with new software before using it at work, or familiarize new employees with company procedures: I spent the morning familiarizing myself with the neighborhood.
The British spelling is familiarising.
Becoming accustomed to environment
- adjustingAltering to correct
- habituatingAdapting through repeated exposure
- assimilatingAbsorbing into a whole
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
acclimatizing · settling in · accommodating · integrating · conforming · inuring · orienting · reorienting
Making first acquaintance
- orientingDetermining one's position
- briefingConcise information session
- informingConveying facts to another
- presentingDisplaying to an audience
accustoming · exposing · explaining · educating · instructing · enlightening · clarifying · describing
Deliberate learning effort
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- comprehendingMentally taking in meaning
- absorbingHolding attention completely
mastering · memorizing · retaining · conceptualizing · internalizing · digesting · apprehending · getting to know
acclimating
Becoming accustomed to environment
- adjustingAltering to correct
- habituatingAdapting through repeated exposure
- assimilatingAbsorbing into a whole
conditioning · acclimatizing · settling in · accommodating · integrating · conforming · inuring · orienting · reorienting · fitting in
introducing
Making first acquaintance
- orientingDetermining one's position
- briefingConcise information session
- informingConveying facts to another
presenting · accustoming · exposing · explaining · educating · instructing · enlightening · clarifying · describing · revealing
studying
Deliberate learning effort
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- comprehendingMentally taking in meaning
absorbing · mastering · memorizing · retaining · conceptualizing · internalizing · digesting · apprehending · getting to know · picking up
- familiarizationacquainting, orienting, introducing, accustoming, habituating
- communicatingtalking, speaking, telling, sharing, expressing
- orientationorientation, orientation week, O-Week, frosh week, orientation sessions
familiarizingforgetting
Failing to retain memories
estranging · unlearning · mystifying · alienating · obfuscating
familiarizingdisorienting
Causing loss of direction
confusing · bewildering · perplexing · unsettling · disconcerting
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