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ADOPTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acquired as your own by free choice
Example:
an adoptive country
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Antonym:
native (belonging to one by birth)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb adopt
Context examples:
"No, I don't," was Jo's decided answer, as she petted the fat poodle, whom she had adopted, out of respect to his former mistress.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Adopted fraternity will not do in this case.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She is my niece; but when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my daughter.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The research group led by Yoichiro Yamamoto and Go Kimura, in collaboration with a number of university hospitals in Japan, adopted an approach called "unsupervised learning."
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This speaks to the impact that the dietary practice might have, even when adopted by younger people in good health.
(Moderate calorie restriction in young and middle-aged adults significantly reduces heart and metabolic risk factors independent of weight loss, National Institutes of Health)
But upon infection, T cells adopted barcodes similar to those of their ILC counterparts.
(Rapid-response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes, NIH)
The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs—a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
"Well, it would serve to cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn, which he had adopted, when quite a young man, on the principal of its being very ungenteel to be curious.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He held his guard somewhat lower to screen this vulnerable point, and he danced round his opponent with a lightness which showed that his wind had not been impaired by the body-blows, whilst the smith still adopted the impassive tactics with which he had commenced.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They passed some months in great happiness at Dawlish; for she had many relations and old acquaintances to cut—and he drew several plans for magnificent cottages;—and from thence returning to town, procured the forgiveness of Mrs. Ferrars, by the simple expedient of asking it, which, at Lucy's instigation, was adopted.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
