adopt
verb
- bring into a family
- make use of somebody else's approach
- take on as one's own
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈdɒpt/ / /əˈdɑpt/
noun
Etymology: From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptō; ad + optō (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- + opt.
- Clipping of adoptable.
verb
Etymology: From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptō; ad + optō (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- + opt.
- To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
“A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.”
- To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
“We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.”
- To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
“We adopted an elephant at the local zoo.”
- To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
“This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.”
“Sixteen years ago, the station entered into a new chapter when it was adopted by the Friends of Chirk Station (FoCS) volunteer group, under the Arriva Trains Wales Station Adopters programme.”
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
“He adopted a new look in order to fit in with his new workmates.”
“[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.”
- To select and take or approve.
“to adopt the view or policy of another”
“These are resolutions that were adopted.”
- To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
“The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.”
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