acquire

CEFRC1

/əˈkwaɪɚ/

verb

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
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.

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No virtue is acquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.
a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London...
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.
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
Ivor had acquired 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.
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
In the process of basification, the top layer of the crust becomes basic, while the lower becomes ultrabasic acquiring the density of the mantle or an even greater density
1980, A. W. Bally, Dynamics of Plate Interiors, →ISBN, page 49
If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too.
2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 46

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From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquirō; ad- + quaerō (“to seek for”). See quest.