ACQUIRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquiring mean? 

• ACQUIRING (noun)
  The noun ACQUIRING has 1 sense:

1. the act of acquiring something

  Familiarity information: ACQUIRING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACQUIRING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of acquiring something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

acquiring; getting

Context example:

he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving

Hypernyms ("acquiring" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acquiring"):

acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)

obtainment; obtention (the act of obtaining)

catching; contracting (becoming infected)

appropriation (a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner)

moving in; occupancy; occupation (the act of occupying or taking possession of a building)

capture; gaining control; seizure (the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property)

receipt; reception (the act of receiving)

pickup (the act of taking aboard passengers or freight)

Derivation:

acquire (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

 Context examples 

Sub-study SPRINT MIND, enabled scientists from 27 clinical sites to examine the effects these treatments had on the brain by measuring cognitive function and acquiring MRI scans on a subset of SPRINT participants.

(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)

These soon took a pleasure in doing their work well, in keeping their persons neat, in learning their tasks regularly, in acquiring quiet and orderly manners.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The proportion of CD4+ T cells with high levels of alpha-4 beta-7 had an effect, albeit modest, on the risk of acquiring HIV.

(Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression, National Institutes of Health)

BioCarta aims to be the leader in the development and commercialization of new technology for functional proteomics by creating an international organization geared towards identifying, acquiring, and commercializing novel products.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

Instead of acquiring an image on film, it is collected electronically and can be stored directly into a computer.

(Digital mammography, NCI Thesaurus)

The knowledge I had in mathematics, gave me great assistance in acquiring their phraseology, which depended much upon that science, and music; and in the latter I was not unskilled.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A technique that uses focused waves of broadband, low-spatially-coherent light to illuminate a sample, and forms an image by acquiring far field back-scattered photons.

(Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

These thoughts exhilarated me and led me to apply with fresh ardour to the acquiring the art of language.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was acquiring more confidence in myself and more confidence in the possibilities of windlasses, shears, and hoisting tackles.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)