Adoption
[ə'dɒpʃ(ə)n] or [ə'dɑpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; 'its adoption by society'; 'the proposal found wide acceptance'.
(noun.) 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).
Editor: Olaf--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
(n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Typist: Sol
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Appropriation.[2]. Approval, espousal, support, maintenance.[3]. Affiliation, adopting, fathering.
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Examples
- In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My opponent had the advantage of birth over me (he was a citizen by adoption) and carried off the prize. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Prior to its adoption steam was admitted to the cylinder during the whole time the piston was making its stroke from one end of the cylinder to the other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This and other difficulties led finally to the adoption of the circular type, whose continuous cut and high speed saved much time and presented many other advantages. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Entire surrender, and wholehearted adoption of the course of action demanded by others are almost impossible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How could such a covenant, such adoption, be sanctioned by the Church? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He realized, however, that the enormous investment for copper would militate against the commercial adoption of electric lighting on an extended scale. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The adoption of this form was due to Fairbairn, the celebrated English inventor and engineer of iron structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Why do you injuriously introduce the name of my mother by adoption? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The adoption of the Paixhans long-chambered guns, designed to throw heavy shells horizontally as well as at a slight elevation and as easily as solid shot, was attended with great results. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He converted the reciprocating motion of the piston into a rotary motion by the adoption of the crank, and introduced the well-known parallel motion, and many other improvements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The year 1900 is to witness the compulsory adoption of automatic car couplings on all cars. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This fact has led to its adoption as a means of regulating the mechanism of clocks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The evidence given before the Committee was greatly in favor of steam carriages, and tended to show that there was no insuperable difficulty to the general adoption of them. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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