adopt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɒpt/
ipa: /əˈdɑpt/
rhymes: -ɑpt
rhymes: -ɒpt
Forms: form: adopts
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Etymology: From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptō; ad + optō (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- + opt.
Senses: examples: text: A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
glosses: To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
examples: text: We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
glosses: To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
examples: text: We adopted an elephant at the local zoo.
glosses: To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc.
examples: text: This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
text: Sixteen years ago, the station entered into a new chapter when it was adopted by the Friends of Chirk Station (FoCS) volunteer group, under the Arriva Trains Wales Station Adopters programme.
ref: 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 49:
glosses: To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
examples: text: He adopted a new look in order to fit in with his new workmates.
text: [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
ref: 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
examples: text: to adopt the view or policy of another
text: These are resolutions that were adopted.
text: Every society should adopt an order of business adapted to its special wants.
ref: 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article XIV, Section 71, p. 156:
text: Having found a property that 'feels' right you then have to adopt a hard-headed attitude and consider the realities of life in a new environment.
ref: 1997, “Buying a Rural Property”, in Back to Basics, Surry Hills, NSW: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Limited, page 10:
glosses: To select and take or approve.
examples: text: The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.
text: Nakamura 'Adopts' Komodo On Fathers Day: 20.5-2.5
ref: 2018 June 19, Peter Doggers, “(title)”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 21 May 2022:
text: Wednesday's event will offer the Russian grandmaster three opportunities to adopt Rensch, though just like in the Speed Chess Championship, Nepomniachtchi will have to race against the clock.
ref: 2020 May 27, “Adopt-A-Danny Returns Wednesday With Ian Nepomniachtchi”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 27 May 2020:
text: "That's it, that's it!" the Grandmaster Eric Hansen bellowed after following nine straight losses with a win. "You are not adopting me! Not today, not today!"
ref: 2022 April 12, Jacob Sweet, “The Most Popular Chess Streamer on Twitch”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022:
text: There was wasn't much for Gukesh fans to cheer, but at least he avoided the fate of Maghsoodloo, who was "adopted", i.e. beaten 10 games in a row. Gukesh struck in the 2nd 3+1 game, when he was dangerously close to that mark.
ref: 2022 December 7, Colin McGourty, “Carlsen plays "horribly", beats Gukesh 23:7”, in chess24, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
Derived terms: adoptability
adoptable
adoptance
adoptedly
adoptianism
adoptious
adoptor
nonadopted
nonadopting
preadopt
readopt
unadopt
Related terms: adoptee
adoption
adoptive
adoptive father
adoptive mother
adopt out