Manage vs Acquire - What's the difference?
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To direct or be in charge of.
To handle or control (a situation, job).
To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:
To succeed at an attempt
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, title= To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
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, title= To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
The act of managing or controlling something.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
(horseriding) .
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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In transitive terms the difference between manage and acquire
is that manage is to handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.) while 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.As a noun manage
is the act of managing or controlling something.manage
English
Verb
(manag)- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* manageable * managed care * managed code * managed house * management * manager * managerial * unmanageableNoun
(-)- the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
See also
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* English control verbsacquire
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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