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The act of adopting.

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The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

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A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.

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Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

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the adoption of people into hospitals or monasteries

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The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

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the adoption of opinions

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Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

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Our company is considering the adoption of a four-day week.

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An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.

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Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

Examples of adoption in a Sentence

Much as she wanted the baby, she felt adoption was the best choice.

Could you have Alex get the adoption paperwork started?

As soon as Lori was able, she signed the adoption papers and left the state with her sister.

It was an open adoption and Lori had every right to see Destiny.

Meetings in connexion with the adoption and promulgation of the Covenant were held in the old parish church of Beath.

The adoption of a reseau photographed upon the plate has greatly facilitated the procedure.

In his adoption of a purely defensive policy at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, he miscalculated the temper of the Athenians, whose morale would have been better sustained by a greater show of activity.

Shields (1825-1904), who afterwards entered the Protestant Episcopal Church, republished and urged the adoption of the Book of Common Prayer as amended by the Westminster Divines in the royal commission of 1661; and Henry Van Dyke was prominent in the latter stage of the movement for a liturgy.

With the adoption of relays the signalling between the subscribers and the exchange became automatic, and, with the introduction of the principle of double and automatic supervision on the cord circuits, it became possible for the operators to tell at any instant the state of a connexion.

But since the general adoption of the theory of evolution, similarity of descent, that is of p/iylogeny, has come to form an essential part of this conception; in other words, in order that their homology may be established the parts compared must be proved to be homogenetic.

Through the adoption of standardized treaties, they can enter into economic agreements, adopt the same weights and measures, and agree to honor the intellectual property of the others.

And that left only adoption.

We talked about this the day you signed the adoption papers.

Like adoption, maybe she would warm to the idea.

There are a number of methods available for adoption in the heating of buildings, but it is a matter of considerable difficulty to suit the method of warming to the class of building to be warmed.

She might get over the phobia about adoption – if that was actually the problem.

So I got to thinking about adoption.

When she signed the adoption papers she was told that it was permanent.

It's an open adoption.

In fact, he had already looked into adoption.

This lowering tendency towards the low church pitch, and the final adoption of the latter as a general mean pitch throughout the 18th century, was no doubt influenced by the introduction of the violin, which would not bear the high tension to which the lutes and viols had been strained.

The first of these was due to the adoption by certain teachers in theological seminaries of the methods and results of the "higher criticism," and two famous heresy cases followed.

In some cases the exchanges are connected together directly; but when the volume of traffic is not sufficient to warrant the adoption of such a course connexions between two exchanges are made through junction centres to which both are connected.

In May 1897 he secured the adoption of the Army Reform Bill,.

He as vainly sought to secure Luther's adoption of a strict rule of church discipline, after the manner of the Moravian Brethren.

And then she saw the note clipped to the adoption form.

Since Carmen had been the one to initiate that adoption, it was safe to assume she was over her adoption phobia.

Fortunately, he had the foresight to make it a legal adoption.

I told her I was the one who insisted on adoption.

The situation with Lori had been her greatest fear of adoption.

Still, her objections to adoption went beyond the custody issue.

She didn't come here to discuss adoption with Mums and AI wasn't something she would ever agree to.

If they could get past the adoption issue, they could give their children a better life than he had.

And yet, there was always the possibility of adoption — maybe sometime in the future — maybe.

I wasn't talking about adoption.

No. If you don't want it, I'll give it up for adoption.

You have to protect her against that, and the only way you can do that is by legal adoption.

The adoption issue that had been an obstacle for Carmen so long now appeared to be fair in her eyes.

Almost immediately after the adoption of the ordinance a mass meeting at Clarksburg recommended that each county in north-western Virginia send delegates to a convention to meet in Wheeling on the 13th of May 1861.

But experience soon proved the superiority of the spider web; its perfection of shape, its lightness and elasticity, have led to its universal adoption.

The philosophy of Descartes fought its first battles and gained its first triumphs in the country of his adoption.

The stricter party urged the adoption of the Westminster standards and conformity thereto; the broader party were unwilling to sacrifice their liberty.

The exact meaning of these features is not clear, but if it be remembered (a) that the Levites of post-exilic literature represent only the result of a long and intricate development, (b) that the name "Levite," in the later stages at least, was extended to include all priestly servants, and (c) that the priesthoods, in tending to become hereditary, included priests who were Levites by adoption and not by descent, it will be recognized that the examination of the evidence for the earlier stages cannot confine itself to those narratives where the specific term alone occurs.

The hydraulic crane is rapid in action, very smooth and silent in working, easy to handle, and not excessive in cost or upkeep, - advantages which have secured its adoption in every part of the world.

Adoption was very common, especially where the father (or mother) was childless or had seen all his children grow up and marry away.

Adoption had to be with consent of the real parents, who usually executed a deed making over the child, who thus ceased to have any claim upon them.

A noticeable feature in the modern A B C indicator, as well as in all modern forms of telegraph instruments, is the adoption of " induced " magnets in the moving portion of the apparatus.

It was found impossible to make the Morse ink writer so sensitive that it could record signals sent over land lines of several hundred miles in length, if the speed of transmission was very much faster than that which could be effected by hand, and this led to the adoption of automatic methods of transmission.

The difficulty of connecting lightships and isolated lighthouses to the mainland by submarine cables, owing to the destructive action of the tides and waves on rocky coasts on the wll- shore ends, led many inventors to look for a way out of the difficulty by the adoption of some form of inductive Smith.

In August Marco Minghetti succeeded in forming a military league and a customs union between Tuscany, Romagna and the duchies, and in procuring the adoption of the Piedmontese codes; and envoys were sent to Paris to mollify Napoleon.

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