Synonym: earn, gain, obtain, secure. Antonym: lose, miss. Similar words: acquisition, acquiescence, require, required, inquire about, requirement, acquainted, inquiry. Meaning: [ə'kwaɪə] 
v. 1. come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 3. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) 4. locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar 5. win something through one's efforts 6. gain knowledge or skills 7. gain through experience.
v. 1. come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 3. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) 4. locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar 5. win something through one's efforts 6. gain knowledge or skills 7. gain through experience. 
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241. Generally, the system is used to acquire the parameters of the recuperator's liquid and gas, then to judge whether the recuperator is working regularly.
242. Polack says adults acquire the weak antibodies from past bouts of flu, and that they bind to the novel virus just strongly enough to make it worse.
243. Use the Force (or a credit card) to acquire this 297-piece Lego set.
244. A process or thread must acquire an exclusive lock before performing a write to a database.
245. SBA official defended the government accounting figures. It says some of the large businesses are giving contracts because they acquire small businesses that have multiple year contracts.
246. Money spent to acquire or upgrade physical assets such as buildings and machinery.
247. Possibly a pricy way to acquire a floor lamp(sentencedict.com/acquire.html), but you get a seat thrown in as well.
248. MIT linguist Noam Chomsky asserted that the way children acquire language is so effortless that it must have a biological foundation.
249. Therefore the optimum frequency point of the signal source is sought by test, so as to acquire the optimum defect reflection signal wave and penetration receiving signal wave.
250. Forward integration. This involves moving 'downstream' to acquire operation previously undertaken by third parties such as wholesalers or retailers.
251. The United States Treasury was compelled to acquire, at ridiculous prices far above the market level, hoards of unnecessary silver, and to store it in vaults.
252. In the data acquisition and automatic control system using PC as control center, it de-mands singlechip computers to acquire and convert data to PC using asynchronous serial transmission.
253. This route is beginning to acquire the status of a major arms supply route in that part of the country, which has implications for Myanmar, even Sri Lanka, said sources.
254. As to the non-fluctuation targets in the clutters, MIMO radar can acquire higher improvement factor to targets moving at arbitrarily angle after the processing of GMTI.
255. Conclusion CT scan can acquire the multi-plane image, and can directly reflect the parametrial space. It is more accurate than FIGO staging, and is an important complement to FIGO staging.
256. After being used in certain context for some time, some language means and language unit may acquire a certain functional meaning in use.
257. The problem for the absurd artist is to acquire this savoir-vivre which transcends savoir-faire.
258. Attempts , for the specified amount of time , to acquire an exclusive lock on the specified object.
259. We acquire the stabilized expressed cell lines through 2W Blasticidin selection.
260. Beyond any doubt, we ought to acquire these qualities, do still better in remoulding ourselves and raise ourselves to a higher revolutionary level.
261. To acquire the waveform of the arc voltage and the arc current in welding, a date collection system and digital filter is designed in this paper. The experimental result shows that it is Satisfied.
262. Attempts to acquire the reader-writer lock as a reader without blocking.
263. The government doesn't need Westerners' investment as much as it once did, and it is increasingly bald-faced about its desire to acquire their technology.
264. John Wood Group Plc rallied 6.7 percent after agreeing to acquire PSN Ltd.
265. The acquisition of knowledge from natural language text is a very important application of NLP. This technique has great prospect because it can help people search and acquire knowledge efficiently.
266. Therefore the techniques of detecting and extracting hidden information are starved for by the department of national security to surveil and acquire secret information on networks.
267. The antemarital and postnuptial scout service were developed to acquire the good social effect.
268. Phoenix International Ventures Inc. of Carson City, Nevada, was established in order to acquire and develop business in the defense and aerospace market.
269. Hence, in this thesis, it is intended to explore the answers to the following three questions: 1) Can Chinese undergraduate English majors acquire word knowledge by the Free Reading Method?
270. A nanosecond later, a buyer would acquire the new corporation in a tax-free stock-for-stock deal.
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