Reap vs Acquire - What's the difference?
reap | acquire |
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
* Bible, Leviticus
To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
* Milton
* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
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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As verbs the difference between reap and acquire
is that reap is to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting while acquire is to get.As a noun reap
is a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.reap
English
Verb
- When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
- to reap a benefit from exertions
- Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
- For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.
Gal.6.7
- Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* reaper * reap what one sows *Anagrams
*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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