Acquire vs Have - What's the difference?
acquire | have |
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 possess, own, hold.
To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
Used in forming the and the past perfect aspect.
must.
To give birth to.
To engage in sexual intercourse with.
To accept as a romantic partner.
(transitive with bare infinitive ) To cause to, by a command or request.
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To cause to be.
(transitive with bare infinitive ) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To depict as being.
Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)
(British, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
(Irish) To be able to speak a language.
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative
To trick, to deceive
(often with present participle) To allow
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
Have is a synonym of acquire.
In transitive terms the difference between acquire and have
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 have is to accept as a romantic partner.acquire
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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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Synonyms
* attain, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, winDerived terms
* acquired tastehave
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Verb
: Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast 'and second-person singular past tense''' hadst''' or ' haddest .- I have a house and a car.
- Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
- I have two sisters.
- The dog down the street has a lax owner.
- I have breakfast at six o'clock.
- Can I have a look at that?
- I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
- I have already eaten today.
- I had already eaten.
- I have to go.
- Note: there's a separate entry for have to .
- The couple always wanted to have children.
- My wife is having the baby right now!
- He's always bragging about how many women he's had .
- Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
- They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
- He had him arrested for trespassing.
- The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
- The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
- I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
- Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
- Anton Rogan, 8, was one of the runners-up in the Tick Tock Box short story competition, not Anton Rogers as we had it.'' — ''The Guardian .
- We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?
- Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?
- (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he ?
- I could have him!
- I'm gonna have you!
- I have no German .
- Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
- He had a cold last week.
- We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
- You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
- "You're a very naughty boy. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. I won't have you chasing the geese!"