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Adoption vs Biological - What's the difference?

adoption | biological |

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.

As an adjective biological is

of or relating to biology.

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.
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    biological

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to biology.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
  • Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
  • Synonyms

    * biologic

    See also

    * adoptive * biological clock * biological father * biological mother * birth mother