adopting 的 3 个定义
- to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- to take responsibility for raising as one's own, specifically by a formal legal act: After more than 300 days in foster care, the twins were adopted by a family that was able to keep the siblings together.
- to acquire: Local animal rescue groups use social media to persuade people to adopt dogs and cats from them instead of purchasing puppies and kittens from pet shops or breeders.
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- to take a nonbiological child into one’s home and raise as one’s own.
- to acquire a pet, especially one from an animal rescue organization: “Adopt! Don’t shop!” is the popular slogan promoted by one nonprofit animal advocacy group.
- adopt out, to place in a home by means of adoption: The shelter provides basic medical care and vaccinations to the animals they will be adopting out.
adopting 近义词
choose or take something as one's own
legally care for another's child
更多adopting例句
- The Sense, however, is alone as the first Fitbit to adopt an ECG sensor, bringing it up to speed with the new Apple Watch on that front.
- For farms to adopt climate-friendly practices, they need restaurants that reward them for doing so.
- New York adopted some of the toughest measures, and it now has the third-lowest per-capita case rate among the 50 states.
- Even in normal circumstances, when people are not under stress, it is difficult to adopt AI tools into a process and make sure it’s all properly regulated.
- The networks may benefit from more people having adopted streaming this year and the people who canceled their pay-TV subscriptions looking to subscribe to streamers offering TV programming.
- Now Wisconsin is considering making it mandatory for parents who adopt overseas to have their children “re-adopted” in the state.
- Some of the most explosive opportunities could be based around things that the Western world seems reluctant to adopt.
- “It doesn't require the association to immediately adopt the listed protections,” Hruby wrote.
- How many shootings will it take before we adopt common sense gun control?
- Almost every country present pledged to either adopt a church or rebuild a school.
- The French adopt the same derivation, calling it "asbeste" (minèral filamenteux et incombustible).
- They may adopt such rules as they like provided they are not contrary to the laws of the land.
- Very soon I induced my directors to adopt the view that the railway company must encourage and help the project.
- But don't adopt the role of inquisitor—because I'm as good as dead, and dead men tell no tales.
- It decided to adopt Mr. Dickinson's petition; and to this measure John Adams submitted.