英和和英

発音

• (General American) IPA: /əˈkwaɪɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈkwaɪə/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: ac‧quire

動詞

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.

   to acquire a skill

   to acquire decent habits and manners

   He acquired a title.

   All the riches he acquired were from hard work.

   One should acquire as much knowledge as possible from reading.

   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Consideration of our Latter End”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

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

   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     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.

   • 1980, A. W. Bally, Dynamics of Plate Interiors, →ISBN, page 49:

     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

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 46:

     If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too.

3. (medicine) To become affected by an illness.

   Synonyms: contract, catch, get

4. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
5. (Canada, US, military) 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.

Conjugation

同意語

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

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “get, gain”): abandon, lose

派生語

関連する語

• acquisition
• acquirement
• acquisitive
• acquisitory

参考

• obtain
• reach