Helen Fenton

Acquaint: Definition and part of speech

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Acquaint

  1. v. t. Acquainted.
  2. v. t. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; — followed by with.
  3. v. t. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; — followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Acoustic: Definition and part of speech

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Acoustic

  1. n. A medicine or agent to assist hearing.
  2. a. Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.