Enact vs Adopt - What's the difference?
enact | adopt |
(legal) to make (a bill) into law
to act the part of; to play
* Shakespeare
to do; to effect
* Shakespeare
(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 enact and adopt
is that enact is to do; to effect while adopt is to select and take or approve.As verbs the difference between enact and adopt
is that enact is to make (a bill) into law while adopt is to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.As a noun enact
is purpose; determination.enact
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Verb
(en verb)- I did enact Julius Caesar.
- The king enacts more wonders than a man.
Derived terms
* enactability * enactable * enactably * enaction * enactoradopt
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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 .