Acquire vs Static - What's the difference?
acquire | static |
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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Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
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(programming) Occupying fixed memory, allocated when a program is loaded.
Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
(by extension) Interference or obstruction from people.
Something that is not part of any perceived universe phenomena; having no motion; no particle; no wavelength.
Static electricity.
As a verb acquire
is to get.As an adjective static is
unchanging; that cannot or does not change.As a noun static is
interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.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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