Acquire vs Copy - What's the difference?
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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)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), chapter=3/19/2, title=
, 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.}}
The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
* Denham
An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
(journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
(journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy
(marketing) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
(uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
A school work pad.
A printed edition of a book or magazine.
Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
(obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
* Holder
(obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
(genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
(label) To produce an object identical to a given object.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
(label) To imitate.
* (Dugald Stewart) (1753–1828)
To receive a transmission successfully.
Acquire is a related term of copy.
As verbs the difference between acquire and copy
is that acquire is to get while copy is (label) to produce an object identical to a given object.As a noun copy is
the result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.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.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
Synonyms
* attain, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, winDerived terms
* acquired tastecopy
English
Noun
(copies)- Please bring me the copies of those reports.
- I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
- That handbag is a copy . You can tell because the buckle is different.
- Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
- Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy .
- Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?
- The library has several copies of the Bible.
- His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
- Let him first learn to write, after a copy , all the letters.
- She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* carbon copy * duplicate * facsimile * image * likeness * reduplication * replica * replication * reproduction * simulacrum * fake * forgery * phony * shamAntonyms
* originalDerived terms
* advance copy * backup copy * deep copy * carbon copy * certified copy * clean copy * conformed copy * copy area * copy book * copy boy * copy cat/copycat * copy constructor * copy desk * copydom * copy editor * copy holder * copy key * copy menu * copy number * copy protection * copy room * copy ruler * copy shop * copy test * copy typist * copywriter * courtesy copy * duplicate copy * fair copy * hard copy * image copy * master copy * office copy * photocopy * presentation copy * promotional copy * reading copy * review copy * scaled copy * shallow copy * soft copy * top copy * xerox copyVerb
(en-verb)Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
- We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.