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Acquire vs Bought - What's the difference?

acquire | bought |

As verbs the difference between acquire and bought

is that acquire is to get while bought is (buy).

As a noun bought is

(obsolete) a bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.

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

    Related terms

    * acquisition * acquirement * acquisitive * acquisitory

    bought

    English

    Etymology 1

    See buy

    Verb

    (head)
  • (buy).
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
    Usage notes
    It is common to hear native English speakers (particularly in the UK, Australia and New Zealand) using "bought " when meaning "brought" (and vice versa) despite the fact that the two words mean different things Sometimes this mistake makes its way into print[http://thehoopla.com.au/relinquished/.
    Derived terms
    * overbought

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bought, bowght, .

    Alternative forms

    * bout, bowt * boughte, bughte

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
  • (obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
  • (obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
  • * 1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 159:
    • the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
  • (obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
  • (obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
    • Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.

    References

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    * The Oxford English Dictionary. English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms