Apt vs Adopt - What's the difference?
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Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
(of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
* (1628–1699)
* (1834-1913)
* (Fairfax Harrison) (1869-1938)
Ready]]; especially fitted or [[qualify, qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
* (rfdate) Johnson
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:(Although I) live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.
(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.
As a noun apt
is .As a proper noun apt
is .As a verb adopt is
(with relationship specified) to take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.apt
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt , since the election night will bring out the lunatics.
- a river apt to be forded by a lamb
- My vines and peacheswere apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.
- This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
- An apt wit.
Synonyms
(split by senses) * disposed, predisposed, inclined, liable, tending towards * appropriate, suitable, meet * fit, qualified * prompt, quick * ready * See alsoDerived terms
() * aptly * aptnessAnagrams
*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 .