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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishacqueren, fromOld Frenchaquerre, fromLatinacquirō;ad- +quaerō(“to seek for”). Seequest.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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acquire (third-person singular simple presentacquires,present participleacquiring,simple past and past participleacquired)

  1. (transitive) Toget.
  2. (transitive) Togain, usually by one's ownexertions; to get as one's own.
    toacquire a skill
    toacquire decent habits and manners
    Heacquired a title.
    All the riches heacquired were from hard work.
    One shouldacquire as much knowledge as possible from reading.
    • a.1678 (date written),Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Consideration of our Latter End”, inThe Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to VII), London:A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published1830–1831,→OCLC:
      No virtue isacquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.
    • 1765–1769,William Blackstone,Commentaries on the Laws of England,(please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press,→OCLC:
      Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor,acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
    • 1922,Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
      Ivor hadacquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
    • 1980, A. W. Bally,Dynamics of Plate Interiors,→ISBN, page49:
      In the process of basification, the top layer of the crust becomes basic, while the lower becomes ultrabasicacquiring the density of the mantle or an even greater density
    • 2012,Nadine Gordimer,No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published2013, page46:
      If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easilyacquire this ancient one, too.
  3. (medicine) To become affected by an illness.
    Synonyms:contract,catch,get
  4. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
  5. (Canada,US, military) To begin tracking a mobile target with a particular detector or sight, generally with the implication that an attack on the target thereby becomes possible.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofacquire
infinitive(to)acquire
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularacquireacquired
2nd-personsingularacquire,acquirest†acquired,acquiredst†
3rd-personsingularacquires,acquireth†acquired
pluralacquire
subjunctiveacquireacquired
imperativeacquire—
participlesacquiringacquired

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Translations

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to get
to gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own
medical: become affected by an illness
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See also

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Latin

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Verb

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acquīre

  1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofacquīrō
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