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Look up: Acquire

  1. Acquire
    The opening up and importing of files into a given software application. The term is applied differently with in different types of software. With imaging software it is most often done through a twain interface or plug-in mini-application.
    Found on http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%

  2. Acquire
    Ac·quire' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Acquired ; present participle & verbal noun Acquiring ] [ Latin acquirere , acquisitum ; ad + quarere to seek for. In Middle English was a verb aqueren , from the same, through Old French aquerre . See Quest ..] To gain, usually ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/21

  3. acquire
    verb locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  4. acquire
    verb win something through one`s efforts; `I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese`; `Gain an understanding of international finance`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Acquire
    `Acquire` is a board game designed by Sid Sackson. The game was originally published in 1962 by 3M as a part of their bookshelf games series. In the most versions, the theme of the game was investing in hotel chains. In the most recent edition, published by Hasbro, the hotel chains are replaced by generic corporations, though the actual gameplay is unchanged.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquire

  6. Acquire
    • (v. t.) 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.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. acquire
    acquire 1. To get or obtain possession of something. 2. To learn or develop something.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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