adopted lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• take into one's family "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect "His voice took on a sad tone" "The story took a new turn" "he adopted an air of superiority" "She assumed strange manners" "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"
• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own "She embraced Catholicism" "They adopted the Jewish faith"
• put into dramatic form "adopt a book for a screenplay"
• take up and practice as one's own
• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans "She followed the feminist movement" "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities "When will the new President assume office?"
• of parents and children; related by adoption "adoptive parents"
• acquired as your own by free choice "my adopted state" "an adoptive country"
• having been taken into a specific relationship "an adopted child"