Acquire vs Amass - What's the difference?
acquire | amass |
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.}}
To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
* 1887 , , A Study in Scarlet , Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
(obsolete) A mass; a heap.
* Thomas Pownall
In transitive terms the difference between acquire and amass
is that acquire is 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 while amass is to collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.As a noun amass is
a mass; a heap.acquire
English
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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Synonyms
* attain, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, winDerived terms
* acquired tasteamass
English
Verb
(es)- to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases
- he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.
Synonyms
* accumulate, heap up, pileNoun
(es)- a general idea of an amass of arms