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Gait vs Acquire - What's the difference?

gait | acquire |

As verbs the difference between gait and acquire

is that gait is to teach a specific gait to a horse while acquire is to get.

As a noun gait

is manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

gait

English

(wikipedia gait)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
  • Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait .
  • (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To teach a specific gait to a horse.
  • Anagrams

    * (l), (l) ----

    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