adopt
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
She followed the feminist movement
Types & categories
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Sense 2 verb
take up and practice as one's own
Types & categories
- accept hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
When will the new President assume office?
Types & categories
- take office hypernym
- resume hyponym
Related & opposite
- laying claim derivation
Sense 4 verb
take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
His voice took on a sad tone
Types & categories
Sense 5 verb
take into one's family
They adopted two children from Nicaragua
Types & categories
- take hypernym
Related & opposite
- adoption derivation
- adoptee derivation
- adoptive parent derivation
- adoptable derivation
- adoptive derivation
Sense 6 verb
put into dramatic form
adopt a book for a screenplay
Types & categories
- pen hypernym
Related & opposite
- dramatization derivation
- dramatization derivation
- drama derivation
- play derivation
- dramatist derivation
- authorship domain topic
Sense 7 verb
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
She embraced Catholicism
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | adoption |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | following |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | abide by |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | choose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | adhere |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | borrowing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | adopted |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | accept |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | laying claim |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | take office |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | resume |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | re-assume |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | adoption |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | adoptee |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | adoptive parent |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | adoptable |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | adoptive |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | take |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatization |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatization |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | drama |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | play |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatist |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | authorship |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | pen |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | borrowing |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | embrace |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | accept |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | fasten on |