different between acquire vs rollup

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

• roll-up
• roll up

Etymology

From the verb phrase roll up.

Noun

rollup (plural rollups)

1. A kind of food made by wrapping ingredients in another food, e.g. fajitas.

   She ate a chicken rollup and a salad.

2. A kind of flat, pectin-based, fruit-flavored snack rolled into a tube.
3. A self-made cigarette of tobacco and rolling paper.

   Synonym: rollie

   I smoke rollups because they are cheaper than buying cigarettes.

4. A business technique where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged.
5. (computing) A collection of software updates distributed as a single package.
   • 2014, Michel de Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration

     Between issuance of service packs, Microsoft released update rollups for Exchange Server on a regular basis […]

6. That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.

Translations

Anagrams

• uproll