different between adoption vs adopt

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)

English

Etymology

From Middle French adopter, from Latin adopt?; ad +? opt? (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- +? opt.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d?pt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?pt/

Verb

adopt (third-person singular simple present adopts, present participle adopting, simple past and past participle adopted)

1. (transitive) To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)
   1. (transitive) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

      A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.

   2. (transitive) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.

      We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.

   3. (transitive) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
2. (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
3. (transitive) To select and take or approve.

   to adopt the view or policy of another

   These resolutions were adopted.

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article XIV, Section 71, p. 156,^[2]

     Every society should adopt an order of business adapted to its special wants.

4. (transitive, informal, humorous, chess) to win ten consecutive games against an opponent

Usage notes

In the sense of taking a child into one's family, Modern English makes a distinction between fostering (which is implied to be temporary or informal) and adopting (which is permanent and makes the child legally recognized as part of the family). In older usage the two terms were more interchangeable.

Related terms

• adoptee
• adoption
• adoptive
• adoptive father
• adoptive mother
• adopt out

Translations

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?dopt]

Verb

adopt

1. first-person singular present indicative of adopta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of adopta