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Definition of Adopt |
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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. 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. Related Definitions: Adopt, Adopted, And, Another, Approve, As, Be, By, Child, Choice, Citizen, Friend, Heir, In, Into, Is, Naturally, Not, Of, One, Or, Other, Own, Place, Policy, Receive, Relationship, Select, So, Take, The, These, To, View, Voluntarily, Were, What |
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Adopt Quotations
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. Marilyn Monroe We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles. Jim Cramer Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Quentin Crisp The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world. Al Sharpton Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
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Adopt Translations
adopt in Dutch is zich eigen maken, adopteren adopt in French is adoptent, adopter, adoptez, adoptons adopt in Italian is mi incarico, adottare, mi incarico adopt in Latin is adopto adopt in Portuguese is adoptar, adote adopt in Spanish is adoptar, ahijar, emprender adopt in Swedish is adoptera, anta |
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