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Adopted vs Adoption - What's the difference?

adopted | adoption |

As a verb adopted

is (adopt).

As a noun adoption is

the act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

adopted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (adopt)

    • adopt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.
    • A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
  • (with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
    • We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
  • (with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
    • This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
  • To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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  • To select and take or approve.
    • to adopt the view or policy of another
    These resolutions were adopted .

    Related terms

    * adoptee * adoption * adoptive * adoptive father * adoptive mother * adopt out

    adoption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
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    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}
    A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption .
  • Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
  • The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
  • (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
    • Our school is considering the adoption of Wiktionary as the standard dictionary.