different between abandonment vs adoption

English

Etymology

From French abandonnement, from abandonner (“to abandon, relinquish”). abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre à bandon (“to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another”), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (“order, decree, ban”). Equivalent to abandon +? -ment. (See also English banns.)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bæn.dn?.mn?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bæn.dn?.mn?t/

Noun

abandonment (countable and uncountable, plural abandonments)

1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16^th century.]
2. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

   Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.

3. An abandoned building or structure.

   High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.

4. (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. [Early 19^th century.]
5. (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. [Early 19^th century.]
6. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
7. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
8. The self-surrender to an outside influence. [Mid 19^th century.]
9. Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions. [Mid 19^th century.]

Synonyms

Antonyms

Related terms

• abandonable
• abandoned
• abandonee
• abandoner

Translations

References

Further reading

• abandonment at OneLook Dictionary Search
• abandonment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d?p.??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?p.??n/
• Hyphenation: adop?tion

Noun

adoption (countable and uncountable, plural adoptions)

1. The act of adopting. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

   A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.

3. Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

4. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

5. (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

6. (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
7. (informal, humorous, chess) Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

Derived terms

• adoptionism, adoptionist

Translations

References

adoption in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Finnish

Noun

adoption

1. Genitive singular form of adoptio.

Anagrams

• adoptoin

French

Etymology

From Latin adopti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?p.sj??/

Noun

adoption f (plural adoptions)

1. adoption

Related terms

• adopter

Further reading

• “adoption” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

adoption c

1. adoption

Declension

Related terms

• adoptera
• adoptiv

References

• adoption in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)