different between acquire vs copy

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

Alternative forms

• coppy, coppie, copie (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin c?pia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• Hyphenation: copy
• Rhymes: -?pi

Noun

copy (plural copies)

1. The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
   • 1656, John Denham, preface to The Destruction of Troy

     I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.

2. An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.

3. (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
4. (journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.
5. (marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
6. (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.

7. A school work pad.

8. A printed edition of a book or magazine.

9. Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
10. (obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

      Let him first learn to write, after a copy of all the letters.

11. (obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
    • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

      She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.

12. (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
13. (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• original

Hyponyms

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)

1. (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
2. (transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).

3. (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.

4. (transitive) To imitate.
   • 1793, Dugald Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy

     We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.

5. (radio) To receive a transmission successfully.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From English copy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kopy/, [?ko?py]
• Syllabification: co?py

Noun

copy

1. (slang) A copywriter.
2. (slang) A copy (output of copywriter).

Declension