Incorporate vs Adopt - What's the difference?
incorporate | adopt |
To include (something) as a part.
* Addison
To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
To admit as a member of a company
To form into a legal company.
(US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
* Shakespeare
To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
(obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
(with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
(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.
(with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
(with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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To select and take or approve.
In transitive terms the difference between incorporate and adopt
is that incorporate is to form into a legal company while adopt is to select and take or approve.As an adjective incorporate
is corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.incorporate
English
Verb
(incorporat)- The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
- to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
- The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
- Incorporate air into the mixture.
- The company was incorporated in 1980.
- By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
Derived terms
* incorporatedAdjective
(en adjective)- As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
- a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
- Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
- an incorporate banking association
Anagrams
* ----adopt
English
Verb
(en verb)- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted .