Rapport - English meaning

verb

Give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition).

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The powers accorded to the head of state

noun

An official agreement or treaty.

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Opposition groups refused to sign the accord

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A formal agreement, or the condition of agreeing

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[ c ] both parties signed an accord last week in geneva that may finally bring an end to the confli…

noun

A natural liking for and understanding of someone or something.

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He had a special affinity with horses

noun

A relationship between people or groups based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences.

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There was a bond of understanding between them

verb

Join or be joined securely to something else, especially by means of an adhesive substance, heat, or pressure.

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Press the material to bond the layers together

noun

A close and lasting relationship between people

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The bond between parents and children is usually very strong., the county issued $4 million in bond…

noun

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

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He has a total lack of empathy for anybody

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The ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation

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He loves children and has a certain empathy with them.

noun

The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce a pleasing effect.

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The piece owes its air of tranquillity largely to the harmony

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Notes that are played or sung with the main tune and that make the piece more complicated and interesting

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He imagined a society in which all races lived together in harmony.

noun

The situation in which people live or work happily together without any big problems

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Social/racial/political harmony

noun

A relationship between two things or situations, especially where one affects the other.

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A commission to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline

verb

Make, form, or suggest a connection with or between.

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Rumours that linked his name with judith

noun

A torch of pitch and tow for lighting the way in dark streets.

noun

Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.

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They had great sympathy for the flood victims

noun

A feeling or expression of understanding and caring for someone else who is suffering or has problems that have caused unhappiness

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When robert died, i sent a letter of sympathy to his wife., she tends to be in sympathy with the le…

noun

The act of showing understanding for someone or for a particular situation

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Sympathy for sb the prime minister expressed his sympathy for those injured in the attacks., have g…