| NOUN | act | adoption, acceptance, acceptation, espousal | the act of accepting with approval |
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| act | adoption | a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood | |
| act | adoption, borrowing | the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source / source |
| Sounds | ahdaa'pshahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception. | |
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| Example | "its adoption by society" | |
| Synonyms | acceptance, acceptation, espousal | |
| Narrower | embrace, bosom | A close affectionate and protective acceptance |
| Broader | blessing, approval, approving | The formal act of approving |
| Spanish | aceptación, adopción | |
| Catalan | acceptació, adopció | |
| Verbs | adopt | choose and follow |
| Meaning | 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). | |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Broader | proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings | (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked |
| Spanish | adopción | |
| Catalan | adopció | |
| Verbs | adopt | take into one's family |
| Meaning | The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source / source. | |
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| Synonym | borrowing | |
| Narrower | crossover | The appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining / combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience |
| misappropriation | wrongful / wrongful borrowing | |
| naturalization, naturalisation | changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | |
| Broader | appropriation | A deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner |
| Spanish | adopción | |
| Catalan | adopció, manlleu | |
| Verbs | adopt | take up the cause, ideology / ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own |
| adopt | take up and practice as one's own | |
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