acquire
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gain knowledge, skills, or competencies through study or experience
Attested in
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Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- developgaingettake
- pasttense
- acquired
- presentparticiple
- acquiring
- thirdpersonsingular
- acquires
- pastparticiple
- acquired
Framework definitions
- §1
- to come to have or undergo a change of physical features and attributes
- §2
- to take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- §3
- to gain through experience
- §4
- to come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- §5
- to win something through one's efforts
- §6
- to locate a moving entity by means of a tracking system such as radar
- §1 · legacy_primary
- gain knowledge, skills, or competencies through study or experienceDR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
Outgoing relationships
- verbLevel
applylexicon:CognitiveLevel
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.