different between acquisition vs sla

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquis?ti?, from acquirere; equivalent to acquire +? -ition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ.kw?.?z?.??n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

acquisition (countable and uncountable, plural acquisitions)

1. The act or process of acquiring.

   The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.

2. The thing acquired or gained; a gain.

   That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition.

3. (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.

Synonyms

• (an act of acquiring): accession, procurement
• (a thing acquired): accession, acquirement

Antonyms

• abandonment

Derived terms

• macroacquisition

Translations

Further reading

• acquisition at OneLook Dictionary Search
• acquisition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Old French acquisicion, borrowed from Latin acquis?ti?, acquis?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ki.zi.sj??/

Noun

acquisition f (plural acquisitions)

1. acquisition (fact of acquiring)

2. acquisition (the thing obtained)
3. purchase (the act or process of seeking and obtaining something)

Related terms

• acquéreur (“purchaser”)
• acquérir (“acquire”)
• acquis (“asset”)

Further reading

• “acquisition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?/
• Hyphenation: sla
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

Originally the same word as salade with reduction of the first syllable and regular loss of intervocalic -d- (compare slee and slede). The semantic distinction between both forms is secondary.

Noun

sla f (uncountable, diminutive slaatje n)

1. lettuce
2. (now especially diminutive) salad

   Synonym: salade

Derived terms

• ijsbergsla
• koolsla
• slaolie

Descendants

• English: slaw

Etymology 2

Verb

sla

1. first-person singular present indicative of slaan
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of slaan
3. imperative of slaan

Anagrams

• als, la's, las

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse slá, from Proto-Germanic *slahan?.

Verb

sl?

1. to hit, to strike
2. to fight
3. to slay, to kill

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: slå