Word Finder - partner

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Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.

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One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.

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A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.

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To join as a partner.

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(often with with) To work or perform as a partner.

He'd never had a partner in all his time alive.

Can I be your partner every night?

At balls he danced if a partner was needed.

But he showed the magnanimity of his nature by at once admitting Verus as his partner, giving him the tribunician and proconsular powers, and the titles Caesar and Augustus.

I said I wasn't a very good dancing partner.

He'd saved the world and lost his partner.

A faint smile crossed his features, before he returned his attention to his sparring partner.

He had married on the 2nd of June 1886 Miss Frances Folsom, a daughter of a former law partner in Buffalo.

I considered calling Howie and learn what he'd told the detective before I blurted out something that totally contradicted what my former partner in crime had related.

I want a partner - someone I can work beside, not after.

He declined the venture, but recommended the partner whom Bennett subsequently took.

When it was already firmly established (in July 1841), he took in Thomas McElrath as an equal partner, upon the contribution of $2000 to the common fund.

We are will waiting for final replies from partner sites, specifically Aberystwyth.

She 's made a great partner for Auntie Pat, who has become a real whiz at finding all the new bunnies hutches.

It can also be a great way to get your partner to loosen up by calling out directions, including what faces they can make.

Damian hung up and looked at his executive officer and sparring partner.

Cynthia answered, another guest confirming his room while Fred told his new skiing partner he'd see him in the morning.

He was still searching and putting things back together when Officer Jack McCarty and his female partner Jenny Nachman arrived, with the doctor close on their heels.

He returned to his partner, lifted the goblets from the tray, and approached the prisoners.

He treated her as an equal, a partner in a relationship with a wild god, one who respected her enough to let her decide.

Your partner or another relative or friend is welcome to come with you.

When you are done taking pictures, switch roles with your partner and be the subject of the shoot.

Dean detected a hint of a blush from his card-playing partner.

It was possible that he never had the will changed from the time that he considered Carmen his only choice as a partner.

Later, as she looked down at his sleeping form, she was silently cursing the doctor because his diagnosis was correct, but for the wrong partner.

But she didn't want to be in a loveless, emotionless relationship with anyone, especially one where she had no partner.

You and me have beaten this bush a few times before, partner.

She had to compromise between herself and her partner.

In 1819 he removed with his parents to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he attended the local academy for two years, studied law in the office of his uncle, William Allen,' and in 1835 was admitted to the bar, becoming his uncle's law partner.

Mendelssohn soon won the confidence of Bernhard, who made the young student successively his book-keeper and his partner.

From 1902 to 1908 he was a partner in the firm of Bewick, Moreing & Co., London, for whom he had gone to Australia in 1897.

Ruth Boardman is a partner at law firm Bird & Bird.

When it comes to picnics, wine is an imperative partner, it's the Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes, the Sonny to Cher, the Kevin Federline to Britney Spears...no, wait a minute, that's not a partnership, that's wine vinegar.

This site was created by professional antique appraiser Jeff Savage and his partner, Ryan Polite.

Once you have a partner or group together, you need to decide where you are going.

Over the years, the Celluar One brand has gone through several parent and partner companies.

A partner helps by coaching the mother throughout the birthing process.

If one partner has sickle cell trait and the other does not, their children each have a 50 percent chance of having the sickle cell trait, and a 50 percent chance of having normal hemoglobin.

Stepfamilies can be formed after a divorce or death of a parent in a nuclear family or when a single parent chooses a long-term partner.

The possible effect of pregnancy on the health of a woman with CF requires careful consideration before she and her partner begin a family; as do issues of longevity, and the children's status as carriers.

Many of these single parents live with an adult partner, sometimes even the unmarried father of their child.

Masturbation can also be particularly useful in relationships in which one partner wants more sexual activity than the other, in which case masturbation provides a balancing effect.

Many sex therapists believe that to have better sexual experiences with a partner, an individual needs to learn to masturbate first since it is the best way to learn what one likes and does not like in his or her sex acts.

The healthcare provider should give a complete explanation to the pregnant woman and her partner regarding the tests, i.e., what to expect, how long the test may take, what it means, and why it is being done.

For example, with just one unprotected sexual encounter with an infected partner, a woman is twice as likely as a man to acquire gonorrhea or chlamydia.

You may even want to go with the laser thermometer option that somehow reads the temperature of your food (or pots, pans, oven, cooking partner, dog) by shooting a laser beam at it and determining the temperature.

With a romantic dinner, you want to spend as much time at the table with your partner as you can.

Try a dance with a partner as well in order to experience the full spectrum of what dances can be performed to country music.

Line dance favorites are easy to learn on your own, with a partner, or even a group of friends, but for learning a partnered dance it's best to have someone with whom you can learn, practice, and then enjoy in the dance hall.

For a reasonable fee, you can usually take lessons with a partner, or be paired up with someone at the studio once you arrive.