Adrogate vs. Adopt — What's the Difference?

To adopt (a person who is his own master).

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

To adopt (a person who is his own master).

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

Take on or assume (an attitude or position)

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To select and take or approve.

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;