different between acquire vs accept

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??kwa???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??kwa??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Hyphenation: ac?quire

Verb

acquire (third-person singular simple present acquires, present participle acquiring, simple past and past participle acquired)

1. (transitive) To get.
2. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)

     No virtue is acquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.

   • 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.
3. (medicine) To contract.
4. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

Synonyms

• (get, gain): attain, come by, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, win

Antonyms

• (get, gain): abandon, lose

Derived terms

• acquired taste

Related terms

• acquisition
• acquirement
• acquisitive
• acquisitory

See also

• obtain
• reach

Translations

Latin

Verb

acqu?re

1. second-person singular present active imperative of acqu?r?

English

Etymology

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin accept?, accept?re (“receive”), frequentative of accipi?, formed from ad- + capi? (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/, /æk?s?pt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt
• Homophone: except (in some dialects)
• Hyphenation: ac?cept

Verb

accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle accepting, simple past and past participle accepted)

1. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

3. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

4. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

6. (transitive) To endure patiently.

7. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
8. (transitive) To receive officially.

9. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• receive
• take
• withtake
• admit
• onfang (dialectal, obsolete)

Antonyms

• reject
• decline

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

accept (comparative more accept, superlative most accept)

1. (obsolete) Accepted.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ak?t??ept]

Etymology 1

From German Akzept, from Latin acceptus.

Noun

accept n (plural accepte)

1. acceptance

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

accept

1. first-person singular present indicative of accepta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of accepta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?s?p(t)]

Verb

accept (third-person singular present accepts, present participle acceptin, past acceptit, past participle acceptit)

1. accept

References

• Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Swedish

Noun

accept c

1. (finance, business) a bill of exchange that has been accepted
2. (finance, business) the acceptance of a bill of exchange

Declension