Adapt vs. Adopt

Adaptverb

(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit

Adaptverb

(transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust

Adaptverb

(transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character

Adaptverb

(intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.

Adaptadjective

Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

Adaptadjective

Fitted; suited.

Adaptverb

To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; - sometimes followed by to or for.

Adaptverb

make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;

Adaptverb

adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions;

Adoptverb

(transitive) To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)

Adoptverb

(transitive) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Adoptverb

(transitive) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.

Adoptverb

(transitive) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.

Adoptverb

(transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

Adoptverb

(transitive) To select and take or approve.

Adoptverb

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Adoptverb

To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

Adoptverb

choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;

Adoptverb

take up and practice as one's own

Adoptverb

take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;

Adoptverb

take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;

Adoptverb

take into one's family;

Adoptverb

put into dramatic form;

Adoptverb

take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;

Adoptverb

legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own

Adoptverb

choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)

Adoptverb

choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence.

Adoptverb

take on or assume (an attitude or position)

Adoptverb

choose (someone) as a candidate for office

Adoptverb

formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion)

Adoptverb

(of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road).