Accessible vs Acquire - What's the difference?
accessible | acquire |
Easy of access or approach; approachable.
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.
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)
* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
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, 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.}}
As an adjective accessible
is easy of access or approach; approachable.As a verb acquire is
to get.accessible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an accessible town or mountain
Usage notes
* (open to influence) Followed by to .Antonyms
* inaccessibleDerived terms
* accessibility * accessiblyacquire
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Verb
(acquir)- No virtue is acquired in an instant, but 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.
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