Adopt

Definitions: Adopt

Adopt

Verb

1. Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals".

2. Take up and practice as one's own.

3. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?".

4. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables".

5. Take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua".

6. Put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay".

7. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholocism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adopt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Note: Adopt \A*dopt"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Adopted; present participle verb or noun Adopting.]. (Websters 1913)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Adopt

Aid

Second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of, espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits, press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance, countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners of; side with; (cooperate).

Belief

Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n.

Borrowing

Hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.

Choice

Use option, use discretion, exercise option, exercise discretion, one's option; adopt, take up, embrace, espouse; choose, elect, opt for; take one's choice, make one's choice; make choice of, fix upon.

Conduct

Run a race, lead a life, play a game; take a course, adopt a course; steer one's course, shape one's course; play one's paint, play one's cards, shift for oneself; paddle one's own canoe; bail one's own boat.

Location

Endenizen, naturalize, adopt.

Crosswords: Adopt

Adopt a less marital tone. (Dangerous Liaisons; writing credit: Christopher Hampton. based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Choderlos de Laclos.)

Dad, if I don't get my driver's license, I'll never have any boyfriends, I'll never get married and I'll have to adopt a kid like Rosie O'Donnell. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

And, For God's Sake Have A Baby. Thanks Time Magazine, this is just what I need: another article so depressing that I can actually hear my ovaries curling up. According to author Sylvia Hewlett, career women shouldn't wait to have babies because our fertility takes a steep drop-off after age 27. And Sylvia's right- I definitely should've had a baby when I was 27, living in Chicago, over a biker bar, pulling down a cool 12 grand a year. That woulda worked out great. But Sylvia's message is feminism can't change nature, which is true. If feminism could change nature, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be all oiled up on the cover of Maxim. Ladies, there's no reason to panic though, it's out of your control anyway. Either your cooter works, or it doesn't. My mom had me when she was 40, and this was back in the 70s when the only fertility aid was Harvey's Bristol Cream. So, waiting is just a risk that I'm going to have to take. And, I don't think I could do fertility drugs, because, to me, six half-pound translucent babies is not a miracle, it's gross. I'd rather adopt a baby - I don't need a kid that looks like me. I was not a cute kid. I looked like a cross between that chick from the Indigo Girlsand the other chick from the Indigo Girls! (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

I see. You couldn't have one of your own so you decided to adopt. (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg)

They are unwilling to adopt the spirit of the Revolution, and we do not want them! (Scarface; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

I wish music could adopt me ("Music"; performing artist: Erick Sermon)

Dr. Mephisto immediately began procedings to adopt little Kevin. ("Mephisto and Kevin"; performing artist: Primus)

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Books

• Adopt the Perfect Dog: A Practical Guide to Choosing and Training an Adult Dog (reference)

• Adopting in America: How to Adopt Within One Year. (reference)

• How to Adopt Internationally: A Guide for Agency-Directed and Independent Adoptions (2000-2002 Edition) (reference)

• How to Adopt Your Stepchild in California (5th Ed) (reference)

• Russian Adoption Handbook: How to Adopt a Child from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (reference)

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Shown are McKinley High School students with their teacher conducting scientific experiments at the schools laboratory. McKinley High School is part of NCI's "Adopt A School" Program.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Adopt a Smoker : Help a friend quit.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Federal officials adopt ingenious plan to cool Treasury.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. (reference)

The Governing Body may adopt the same procedure either of its own motion or on receipt of a complaint from a Delegate to the Conference. (reference)

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Bruno was only too happy to adopt the suggestion.

To adopt a trivial word, that is to say, a popular and a true one, they looked glum.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Do not keep, feed, or adopt raccoons as pets! Raccoons are wild animals. (references)

Therefore, the panel recommends that most states adopt a policy of screening all newborns. (references)

Never adopt wild animals or bring them into your home. Do not try to nurse sick animals to health. (references)

Business

Polish companies are beginning to adopt the ways of their western competitors. (references)

As a member of the European Union, Austria is obligated to adopt European standards. (references)

State-run enterprises sometimes adopt turnkey operation procedures for major projects. (references)

Children

China

The new law dropped a restriction that parents who adopt a child must be childless. (references)

China

In the past, individuals under the age of 35 could adopt only children with special needs. (references)

China

It also allows for multiple adoptions and lowers the age at which couples are eligible to adopt. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bolivia

Newspapers are privately owned, and most adopt antigovernment positions. (references)

Armenia

On its accession to the Council of Europe in January, the Government pledged to adopt a law on alternative military service within 3 years of accession. (references)

Iraq

Non-Arab citizens are forced to either change their ethnicity on their identity documents and adopt Arabic names or be expelled to the Kurd-controlled northern governates. (references)

Economic History

Slovak Rep

This suggests that the unions may adopt a firmer line in the future. (references)

India

As local entrepreneurs will quickly adopt the same business opportunity. (references)

Barbados

Local companies adopt the cost plus method for pricing of their products. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

However, the Government did not adopt any of these recommendations. (references)

Colombia

Guerrillas, particularly the FARC, pressed the Government and Congress to adopt a permanent prisoner exchange law. (references)

Iceland

He concluded that the Ministry of Justice needed to adopt clearer guidelines to prevent the arbitrary use of solitary confinement by prison authorities. (references)

Minorities

Ethiopia

For example, in Oromiya in 1999, the regional government required that all primary schools adopt Oromiffa as the language of instruction. (references)

Moldova

The 1990 citizenship law offered an equal opportunity to all Soviet citizens residing in the country at the time of independence to adopt Moldovan citizenship. (references)

Tanzania

These ethnic groups continued to seek compensation for past government discrimination seeking to make them adopt a more modern lifestyle and to restrict their access to pastoral lands that were turned into large government wheat farms. (references)

Political Economy

BULGARIA

Bulgarian authorities expect to adopt 80 percent of the applicable EU standards by 2005. (references)

Sudan

Non-Muslims may adopt only non-Muslim children; no such restrictions apply to Muslim parents. (references)

FINLAND

Finland became a member of the EU in 1995, and as a result has had to adopt the EU's tariff schedules. (references)

Political Rights

Bulgaria

Roma groups are demanding that existing political parties adopt platforms pledging more representation and other improvements for Roma in return for Roma support. (references)

Nigeria

Women's rights groups lobbied local and state governments, as well as the Federal Government, to adopt a 30 percent affirmative action program; however, these efforts were unsuccessful. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

With respect to enforcement, Uzbekistan needs to adopt even greater reforms. (references)

Women

Rwanda

The law allows women to inherit property from their fathers and husbands and allows couples to choose the legal property arrangements they wish to adopt. (references)

Malaysia

Despite increased public awareness of the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace, the Government acknowledged in August 2000 that the reluctance of employers to adopt the Code may force it to enact additional legislation regarding sexual harassment. (references)

Venezuela

The 1990 Labor Code specifies that employers must not discriminate against women with regard to pay or working conditions, must not fire them during pregnancy or for 1 year after giving birth, must grant them unpaid leave and benefits for 6 weeks before the birth of a child and 12 weeks after, and must provide them with 10 weeks of unpaid leave if they legally adopt children under 3 years of age. (references)

Worker Rights

Switzerland

Nonunion firms generally adopt the terms and conditions fixed in the unions' collective bargaining. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Upon arrival, the family allegedly was informed that a childless family would adopt their children for the sum of $600 (1,000 dirhams). (references)

Sri Lanka

Any seven workers may form a union, adopt a charter, elect leaders, and publicize their views; however, in practice, such rights can be subject to administrative delays, and are unofficially discouraged. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "adopt": adopt a posture. Additional references.

Beginning with "adopt": adopt-an-orphan, Adopt-a-pet, Adopt-a-player, adopt-a-roll, Adopt-a-vine.

Albanian

adoptoj (domesticate, legitimate, legitimize, vote through). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تبنى (embrace, espousal, espouse, foster, take on, take over). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усвоявам (acquire, assimilate, catch up, digest, master, naturalize, take up), осиновявам (mother), заимствувам (borrow), приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, assume, buy, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, receive, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield). (various references)

Chinese 

采取 (Adopted, Adopting, taken, taking, Taking-off, Took), 採納 (accept), 抱養 , �"�養 (adoption). (various references)

Czech

adoptovat, zavést (bring up, carry, download, inaugurate, introduce, lead on, warp), přijmout za vlastní, přijmout (accept, assume, embrace, receive, see, take up), osvojit si (assume, embrace), odhlasovat, hlásit se (come forward, own, profess, register). (various references)

Danish

adoptere. (various references)

Dutch

zich eigen maken (acquire), adopteren. (various references)

Esperanto

adopti. (various references)

Farsi 

نام گذاردن(هنگام تعمید), قبول کردن (Accept, Accord, Entertain, Matriculate), تعمیددادن (Christen, Dip), اقتباس کردن (Borrow, Extract), اتخاذکردن (Pursue), درمیان خودپذیرفتن (Affiliate), به فرزندی پذیرفتن (Affiliate). (various references)

Finnish

adoptoida, ottaa lapsekseen, ottaa käytäntöön (bring into use, introduce), omaksua. (various references)

French

adopter. (various references)

Frisian

oannimme (accept, receive, take, take in), oanhelje (cite, freshen, gain, increase, put on weight, quote). (various references)

German

adoptieren (to adopt), annehmen (accept, acquire, approve, assume, assumes, contract, embrace, guess, honor, honour, imagine, imbibe, pass, presume, receive, sanctify, suppose, take, take in, take on, to adopt, to assume, to expect, to suppose), übernehmen (accept, assume, borrow, buy, defray, derive, take, take on, take over, to adopt, to take on, to take over, to underwrite, undertake, undertaken). (various references)

Greek 

υιοθετώ (affiliate, espouse, foster). (various references)

Hawaiian

adoptoj. (various references)

Hebrew 

לאמץ יל�". (various references)

Hungarian

adoptál (to affiliate), felvesz szokást, elfogad (accept, acknowledge, adapt, receive, recognize, take, take in, to adopt, to pass, to receive, to take for granted, to take from), befogad (accept, take it into, to accommodate, to admit, to house, to receive, to take in, to take into), örökbefogad, örökbe fogad (to adopt, to affiliate, to father). (various references)

Icelandic

ættleiða. (various references)

Indonesian

menyetujui (accede, accept, accord, acquiescent, agree, approve, approving, assent), mengangkat (appoint, assign, carry, designate, doff, elevate, heave, lift, nab, pick up, promote, raise, take up). (various references)

Irish

uchtaigh. (various references)

Italian

adottare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

採�"� (use). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さいよう (slender hips, slim waist, use). (various references)

Korean 

채택하십시�". (various references)

Manx

doltey (adopted child, cadet, foster, initiate, initiation, protege, pupil, ward). (various references)

Papiamen

adoptá. (various references)

Pig Latin

adoptay

Portuguese

adotar (embracing, father, Foster), admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, assume, avow, concede, confess, grant, lead on, let in, receive, take in), aceitar (accept, adhere, admit, assume, have, huge, receive, subscribe, take, take in, take on, undertake), abraçar princípios, tomar a seu cargo (undertake), seguir (accompany, course, deduce, follow, following, get along, go against, go along, keep on, proceed, professed, pursue, run, spin, take to one's heels, track, trail), escolher (choose, cull, elect, like, list price, optative, pick and choose, pick out, run up, select, single, sort, sort out, take, to choose). (various references)

Romanian

adopta (affiliate, assume, choose, embrace, espouse, follow, legitimate, receive, take), admite (accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, allow of, appoint, approve, assume, avow, Brook, concede, confess, contain, enter, grant, receive, suffer, take for granted, tolerate, vouchsafe), accepta (abide by, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, agree, approve, assent, assume, carry down, embrace, grant, hold, honor, honour, postulate, protect, receive, take, take in, take on), primi o decizie, deprinde (accustom, habituate, inure, learn, master, play in, season into). (various references)

Russian 

усыновлять (mother), усвоить (master), усваивать (assimilate, assimilates, digest, internalize, metabolize), принимать (accept, accepted, assume, embrace, incorporate, pass, receive, receive a visit, take in, take on, take over, take up), перенимать (take over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usvojiti, prihvatiti (accept, go for, hive), pozajmiti (advance, borrow, lend, loan), posvojiti. (various references)

Spanish

adoptar (assume, catch, embrace, espouse, go in for), prohijar (affiliate, mother). (various references)

Swedish

anta (accept, admit, approve, embrace, engage, expect, guess, pass, presume, put on, suppose, surmise, suspect, take), adoptera. (various references)

Tagalog

ampunín. (various references)

Turkish

seçmek (be particular about, choose, co opt, constitute, coopt, cull, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, elect, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick, pick out, plump for, postulate, select, single out, spot), sahip çıkmak (claim, lay claim to, make a claim to, protect, stake out a claim), nüfusuna geçirmek, kabul etmek (accede, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, affiliate, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, receive, recognize, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, thole, turn thumbs up on, witness), evlât edinmek, benimsemek (assimilate, be sold on, commandeer, embrace, espouse, interiorize, internalize, latch on to, seize, seize upon, take up seriously), çalmak (abstract, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukranian 

усиновляти (affiliate, legitimate, legitimize, mother), удочеряти, вибирати (choose, elect, opt, pick, pick on, select, single out), засвоювати (assimilate, digest, internalize, learn), запозичувати (plagiarize), приймати (accept, assume, embrace, initiate, receive, take in, take on, take over, tidy), переймати (inherit), добирати (winnow). (various references)

Welsh

mabwysiadu (affiliate). (various references)

�u . . . ti. (various references)

adoptaverat, adoptavit, adopto, consul, consulam, consulat, consulatur, consule, consulendum, consulens, consulere, consulerentque, consuleret, consuleretis, consulite, consultum, consuluerunt, consulueruntque, consuluisti, consuluit, consuluitque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adopt": adoptabilities, adoptability, adoptable, adopted, adoptee, adoptees, adopter, adopters, adoptianism, adoptianisms, adopting, adoption, adoptionism, adoptionisms, adoptionist, adoptionists, adoptions, adoptive, adoptively, adopts. (additional references)

Words ending with "adopt": preadopt, readopt. (additional references)

Words containing "adopt": preadopted, preadopting, preadopts, readopted, readopting, readopts, unadoptable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adopt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abop, acop, adcot, addopt, adeot, adeph, Adepo, adop, adopshn, adopte, adot, adpot, Adprt, Adzope, anop, anopt, atipt, dadot, edot, fadot, idot, odot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: apod, atop, dato, doat, dopa, toad.

-2 letters: ado, apt, dap, dot, oat, opt, pad, pat, pod, pot, tad, tao, tap, tod, top.

-3 letters: ad, at, do, od, op, pa, ta, to.

+1 letter: adopts, dopant.

+2 letters: adaptor, adopted, adoptee, adopter, coapted, dashpot, dopants, footpad, hardtop, hoptoad, notepad, opiated, parotid, pintado, podesta, pothead, readopt, tadpole.

+3 letters: adaption, adaptors, adoptees, adopters, adopting, adoption, adoptive, antipode, clodpate, dashpots, dioptase, dioptral, diplomat, dystopia, footpads, hardtops, hoptoads, notepads, operated, outpaced, parodist, parotids, parotoid, parroted, pastored, petalody, petaloid, phonated, pintados, podestas, podiatry, portaged, portaled, postcard, postdate, postgrad, postpaid, potheads, potshard, preadopt, predator, probated, pronated, prorated, readopts, satinpod, tadpoles, tamponed, tapadero, teardrop, tetrapod, trapdoor, tripodal.

+4 letters: adaptions, adipocyte, adiposity, adoptable, adoptions, antipodal, antipodes, apodictic, appointed, arthropod, atrophied, audiotape, autopsied, backdropt, captioned, clodpates, coadapted, compacted, comparted, copulated, davenport, dioptases, diplomata, diplomate, diplomats, doorplate, dystopian, dystopias, gastropod, godparent, impastoed, oppilated, outleaped, outpassed, outplayed, outprayed, outspread, parodists, parotoids, pastedown, patrolled, perorated, pintadoes, planetoid, platooned, podiatric, populated, portrayed, postcards, postdated, postdates, postgrads, potshards, preadopts, predation, predators, predatory, readopted, satinpods, speedboat, spoliated, strappado, tapaderos, teardrops, tetrapods, trapdoors, trapezoid, videotape, zapateado.

+5 letters: adaptation, adipocytes, adoptively, adsorption, adsorptive, anthropoid, antipodals, antipodean, apodeictic, approbated, arthropods, audiotapes, cooperated, copycatted, davenports, depilation, depilatory, depopulate, deportable, depositary, depredator, deputation, deutoplasm, diplomates, diplomatic, disappoint, doorplates, duplicator, evaporated, gastropods, godparents, hydropathy, idiopathic, juxtaposed, karyotyped, methyldopa, outcapered, outpainted, outplanned, outspanned, outspreads, paddleboat, pantomimed, parasitoid, parenthood, parodistic, pasteboard, pastedowns, patchboard, patronised, patronized, pentaploid, percolated, perforated, personated, petalodies, phenolated, planetoids, podiatries, podiatrist, pollinated, polydactyl, ponytailed, postdating, postdebate, postmarked, postulated, potlatched, preadopted, predations, prismatoid, procreated, proctodaea, prodromata, propagated, proplastid, prorogated, prostrated, protonated, protracted, pteranodon, radiophoto, readopting, reoperated, reprobated, repudiator, rhapsodist, speedboats, sporulated, standpoint, stomatopod, strappados, stylopodia, syncopated, tetraploid, transposed, trapezoids, videotaped, videotapes, zapateados.

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