Vi fant 14 definisjoner av acquire på engelsk.
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| acquire - win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| win, gain | ||
| lose fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| cozen cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man" | ||
| acquire - locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | ||
| situate, locate put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" | ||
| acquire - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" | ||
| get | ||
| isolate place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" | ||
| incur, obtain, receive, find, get make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health" | ||
| win back, get back recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost; "We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company"; "He got back his son from the kidnappers" | ||
| press out, express, extract obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it" | ||
| capture, catch capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping; "I caught a rabbit in the trap today" | ||
| come into, come by obtain, especially accidentally | ||
| purchase, buy accept as true; "I can't buy this story" | ||
| charter, hire, lease, rent, engage, take grant a charter to | ||
| receive, have convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals" | ||
| turn pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" | ||
| buy accept as true; "I can't buy this story" | ||
| find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
| glom seize upon or latch onto something; "The Republicans glommed onto Whitewater" | ||
| enter upon, luck into, come upon take possession of; "She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives" | ||
| get hold, line up, come up, find take one's position before a kick-off | ||
| accept, have, take tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| obtain come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" | ||
| regain, retrieve, recover, find run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve" | ||
| catch contract; "did you catch a cold?" | ||
| recoup, recuperate, recover reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | ||
| repossess, reclaim make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes" | ||
| regain, find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
| win, acquire, gain be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" | ||
| earn, pull in, bring in, realise, realize, gain, take in, clear, make acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | ||
| earn, garner acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | ||
| benefit, profit, gain be beneficial for; "This will do you good" | ||
| partake in, partake, share be active in | ||
| preempt make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | ||
| preempt make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | ||
| gather up, call for, collect, pick up get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" | ||
| inherit obtain from someone after their death; "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents" | ||
| borrow get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?" | ||
| pick up lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile" | ||
| get cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" | ||
| poll convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" | ||
| acquire - come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" | ||
| grow, develop, produce, get | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| fledge, feather grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already" | ||
| regrow grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption; "parts of the trunk of this tree can regrow"; "some invertebrates can regrow limbs or their tail after they lost it due to an injury" | ||
| spring develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak" | ||
| sprout, stock put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year" | ||
| tiller, stool have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" | ||
| leaf produce leaves, of plants | ||
| pod produce pods, of plants | ||
| teethe grow teeth; cut the baby teeth; "The little one is teething now" | ||
| pupate develop into a pupa; "the insect larva pupate" | ||
| work up, get up develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite" | ||
| cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting" | ||
| evolve, acquire, develop undergo development or evolution; "Modern man evolved a long time ago" | ||
| acquire - gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate" | ||
| learn, larn | ||
| relearn learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it; "After the accident, he could not walk for months and had to relearn how to walk down stairs" | ||
| catch up learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened; "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology" | ||
| ingest, assimilate, absorb, take in become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" | ||
| hit the books, study learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" | ||
| acquire - gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting" | ||
| develop, evolve | ||
| acquire, produce, grow, develop, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| explicate, formulate, develop elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" | ||
| develop expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form" | ||
| develop expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form" | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| acquire - take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" | ||
| assume, adopt, take on, take | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| re-assume take on again, as after a time lapse; "He re-assumed his old behavior" | ||
