different between relationship vs adopt

English

Etymology

From relation +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le??(?)n??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???le???n???p/
• Hyphenation: re?la?tion?ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.
   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative

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