Adrogate vs. Adopt — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adrogate and Adopt
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Definitions
Adrogate➦
To adopt (a person who is his own master).
Adopt➦
Legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own
There are many people eager to adopt a baby
Adrogate➦
To adopt (a person who is his own master).
Adopt➦
Choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)
This approach has been adopted by many big banks
Adopt➦
Take on or assume (an attitude or position)
He adopted a patronizing tone
Adopt➦
(of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road).
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Adopt➦
To take on the legal responsibilities as parent of (a child that is not one's biological child).
Adopt➦
To become the owner or caretaker of (a pet, especially one from a shelter).
Adopt➦
To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent
Adopt a new technique.
Adopt➦
To take up and make one's own
Adopt a new idea.
Adopt➦
To move to or resettle in (a place).
Adopt➦
To take on or assume
Adopted an air of importance.
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Adopt➦
To vote to accept
Adopt a resolution.
Adopt➦
To choose as standard or required in a course
Adopt a new line of English textbooks.
Adopt➦
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
Adopt➦
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
Adopt➦
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
Adopt➦
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
Adopt➦
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
He adopted a new look in order to fit in with his new workmates.
Adopt➦
To select and take or approve.
To adopt the view or policy of another
These are resolutions that were adopted.
Adopt➦
To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.
Adopt➦
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.
Adopt➦
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.
Adopt➦
Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;
She followed the feminist movement
The candidate espouses Republican ideals
Adopt➦
Take up and practice as one's own
Adopt➦
Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;
When will the new President assume office?
Adopt➦
Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;
His voice took on a sad tone
The story took a new turn
He adopted an air of superiority
She assumed strange manners
The gods assume human or animal form in these fables
Adopt➦
Take into one's family;
They adopted two children from Nicaragua
Adopt➦
Put into dramatic form;
Adopt a book for a screenplay
Adopt➦
Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;
She embraced Catholocism
They adopted the Jewish faith
