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Accessible vs Acquire - What's the difference?

accessible | acquire |

As an adjective accessible

is easy of access or approach; approachable.

As a verb acquire is

to get.

accessible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easy of access or approach; approachable.
  • an accessible town or mountain
  • Easy to get along with.
  • Open to the influence of.
  • * Minds accessible to reason. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
  • Obtainable; to be got at.
  • * The best information ... at present accessible . - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
  • (art, literature) Easily understood.
  • Capable of being used or seen.
  • Usage notes

    * (open to influence) Followed by to .

    Antonyms

    * inaccessible

    Derived terms

    * accessibility * accessibly

    acquire

    English

    Verb

    (acquir)
  • To get.
  • To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
  • * (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
  • No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
  • * (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
  • 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.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), chapter=3/19/2, title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
  • , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * attain, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, win

    Derived terms

    * acquired taste