ALL meanings of adopt
a·dopt
A a - verb adopt If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it. 3
- verb adopt If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter. 3
- verb adopt If you adopt a physical position, you move yourself into it. 3
- verb adopt If you adopt a country, you choose it as a place to live. 3
- verb adopt If you adopt an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation. 3
- verb adopt to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child 3
- verb adopt to choose and follow (a plan, technique, etc) 3
- verb adopt to take over (an idea, etc) as if it were one's own 3
- verb adopt to take on; assume 3
- verb adopt to accept (a report, etc) 3
- verb transitive adopt to choose and bring into a certain relationship; specif., to take into one's own family by legal process and raise as one's own child 3
- verb transitive adopt to take up and use (an idea, a practice, etc.) as one's own 3
- verb transitive adopt to choose and follow (a course) 3
- verb transitive adopt to vote to accept (a committee report, motion, etc.) 3
- verb transitive adopt to select as a required textbook 3
- noun adopt Legally take another's child and bring it up as one's own. 1
- verb with object adopt to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname. 1
- verb with object adopt to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act. 1
- verb with object adopt to take or receive into any kind of new relationship: to adopt a person as a protégé. 1
- verb with object adopt to select as a basic or required textbook or series of textbooks in a course. 1
- verb with object adopt to vote to accept: The House adopted the report. 1
- verb with object adopt to accept or act in accordance with (a plan, principle, etc.). 1
- transitive verb adopt become legal parent of: a child 1
- transitive verb adopt assume, take on: an attitude, etc. 1
- transitive verb adopt use: an idea 1
- transitive verb adopt give a home to: a pet 1
- transitive verb adopt animal: sponsor 1
- verb adopt (Transitive Verb) (with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. 0
- verb adopt (Transitive Verb) (with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 0
- verb adopt (Transitive Verb) (with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild. 0
- verb adopt (Transitive Verb) (with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility. 0
- verb adopt (Transitive Verb) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. 0
- verb adopt (Transitive Verb) To select and take or approve. 0