Import vs Procure - What's the difference?

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Import is a related term of procure.

As a noun import

is import (the act of importing).

As a verb procure is

import

English

Etymology 1

(verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

Noun

(wikipedia import)

(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.

(uncountable) The practice of importing.

(uncountable) Significance, importance.

Synonyms

* (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weight

Antonyms

* (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificance

Verb

(en verb)

To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

How can I import files from older versions of this application?

Quotations

* (English Citations of "import")

Derived terms

* importable * important * importer * importation

Antonyms

* (bring in from a foreign country) export

Etymology 2

From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.

* 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:

See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''

To be of importance to (someone or something).

* 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :

This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.

* Dryden

If I endure it, what imports it you?

To be incumbent on (someone to do something).

* 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :

It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.

To be important or crucial to (that something happen).

* 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":

It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

To mean, signify.

* Hooker

Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.

(archaic) To express, to imply.

References

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procure

English

Verb

(procur)

To acquire or obtain.

* Milton

if we procure not to ourselves more woe

Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.

To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.

(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.

(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

* Shakespeare

Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.

(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.

* Spenser

The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.

(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

* Shakespeare

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

Synonyms

* (acquire) obtain * (obtain a prostitute) buy, purchase

References

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