Adoption vs. Adaption — What's the Difference?

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents.

Adaptation.

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

Adaptation.

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

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

To take up and make one's own

To move to or resettle in (a place).

To take on or assume

To vote to accept

To choose as standard or required in a course

The act of adopting. en

The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

(computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

(theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.

Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception;

A legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source;