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Adoption vs Cyrillization - What's the difference?

adoption | cyrillization |

As nouns the difference between adoption and cyrillization

is that 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 while cyrillization is .

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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , 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.

    cyrillization

    English

    (wikipedia Cyrillization)

    Alternative forms

    * Cyrillicization, Cyrillisation, cyrillization

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The transliteration of text into the Cyrillic alphabet.
  • The adoption of the Cyrillic alphabet for a language's writing system.
  • * 1998 , Avraham Greenbaum, “Yiddish Language Politics in the Ukraine, 1930–1936”, in Dov-Ber Kerler (editor), Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature & Society , Rowman Altamira, ISBN 978-0-7619-9025-3, page 25,
    • As far as I know, Cyrillization of Yiddish was never suggested by anyone.