Adopt vs. Implement — What's the Difference?

Legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own

A tool, utensil, or other piece of equipment that is used for a particular purpose

Choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)

Performance of an obligation.

Take on or assume (an attitude or position)

Put (a decision, plan, agreement, etc.) into effect

(of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road).

A tool, utensil, or other piece of equipment used in doing work

To take on the legal responsibilities as parent of (a child that is not one's biological child).

An article used to outfit or equip someone

To become the owner or caretaker of (a pet, especially one from a shelter).

A means of achieving an end; an instrument or agent.

To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent

To put into practical effect; carry out

To take up and make one's own

To supply with implements.

To move to or resettle in (a place).

To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.

To take on or assume

A tool or instrument for working with.

To vote to accept

That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, tool, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.

To choose as standard or required in a course

To accomplish; to fulfill.

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.

To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.

To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.

Instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end

To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.

Apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design;

To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

Ensure observance of laws and rules;

To select and take or approve.

Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue;

To beat an opponent ten times in a row.

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;

Take up and practice as one's own

Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;

Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;

Take into one's family;

Put into dramatic form;

Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;