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Wikidiffcom vs Adopt - What's the difference?

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As a verb adopt is

(with relationship specified) to take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.

wikidiffcom

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Wikidiffcom has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

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 .