acquire

Etymology

From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquirō; ad- + quaerō (“to seek for”). See quest.

verb

1. (transitive) To get.
2. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own
   He acquired a title.
   all the riches he acquired were from hard work.
   One should acquire as much knowledge as possible from reading.
   to acquire a skill
   to acquire decent habits and manners
   Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall. 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
3. (medicine) To contract.
4. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.