adopt

«adopt» in Mova's school dictionary: To take a child into your family legally and raise them… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (adopt, adopts, adopted, adopting)

meaning for a pupil

1) To take a child into your family legally and raise them as your own. tree →

2) To take a pet home from a shelter to care for. tree →

3) To start using a new idea, plan, method or way of behaving. tree →

4) (formal) To vote to accept a plan or law. tree →

sense in the lessons

Family and everyday life: adopt a child, adopt a dog. In school: a class might adopt a new rule or adopt an animal at the zoo (sponsor it). In history and civics: a country adopts a flag or a law. Phrases: adopt a pet, adopted son, adopt a plan, adopt an approach.

examples

• They adopted a baby girl from overseas. tree →
• We adopted a cat from the animal shelter. tree →
• The school adopted a new uniform. tree →
• Our class adopted a penguin at the zoo. tree →
• The council adopted the plan to build a park. tree →
• She adopted a new way of studying and her marks improved. tree →
• I have been recommended to adopt a diction not too remote from that of the Authorised Version. tree →

note

Do not confuse adopt (take as your own) with adapt (change to fit) — a very common trap. Noun: adoption; adjective: adopted (an adopted child), adoptive (adoptive parents).

In the corpora

• The Stranger-man is adopted into the Tribe because he was a gentleman about the mud.
• An adopted or fostered child can choose what to share about their story.
• If you are adopted or in foster care, you share only what you want; your story is yours to tell or keep.
• Adopted children hear all sorts.
• Theo's sister Priya was adopted too, from a different birth family.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «adopt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.