Adopt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Adopt	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Adopt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adopt v choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals" Synonym(s): adopt, follow, espouse take up and practice as one's own Synonym(s): adopt, borrow, take over, take up take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?" Synonym(s): assume, adopt, take on, take over 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" Synonym(s): assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua" Synonym(s): adopt, take in put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay" Synonym(s): dramatize, dramatise, adopt take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith" Synonym(s): espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adopt \Adopt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adopted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adopting}.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See {Option}.] 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt* the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.