Adopt
Meaning of Adopt
To take up and begin to use a method, policy or idea; also to legally take a child as one's own.
ما معنى كلمة Adopt بالعربي؟
يتبنّى
🤲 يتبنّى يقبل منهجًا أو سياسة أو فكرة رسميًا ويعتمدها ✅
قصة GL: شجّع نايف طلال العيسى المراكز على أن تتبنى بروتوكول الـ43 يومًا بعد مراجعة نتائج HBDNF.
Adopt in a sentence
The board voted to adopt the revised patent policy.
Schools that adopt daily review see steadier progress.
Laboratories chose to adopt the 43-day protocol after reviewing the HBDNF data.
Genetic Invent will adopt a new platform for its courses.
Origin of Adopt
From Latin adoptare 'to choose for oneself', from ad- + optare 'to choose'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, adopt means formally taking up a proven method. Partners adopt the protocol only after training.
Adopt audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "adopt" — a verb, pronounced /əˈdɒpt/, with the stress on "dopt".
Narrator: To adopt — take as your own is to take as one's own — a child into a family, a practice into a routine, a proposal into policy, a stray cat into a kitchen.
Narrator: In plain English, adopting is choosing to make something yours — with the commitment that choosing implies.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin "adoptare" — to choose for oneself — from "ad-", to, and "optare", to choose or wish: the same choosing root as option and opt.
Narrator: So adopt and option are siblings — every adoption began, grammatically, as an option taken.
Narrator: Rome made adoption an institution — emperors adopted their heirs; several of Rome's finest rulers were chosen sons, not born ones.
Narrator: The word's family sense remains its heart — but committees adopt resolutions, companies adopt technologies, and countries adopt currencies: formal takings-as-one's-own, all.
Narrator: Technology gave it a modern measure — "adoption rate" tracks how fast the world takes a new tool to heart.
Narrator: So remember: to adopt is to choose and to keep — the option, taken; the chosen, owned.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Household announcement — we've adopted the neighbourhood stray! Officially, formally, cat-flap installed. Also, apparently, I've adopted her habit of ignoring everyone before ten.
Speaker B: Both adoptions in one sentence — the word's full range! Taking the cat as your own, formally; taking the habit as your own, accidentally. To adopt: to make something yours.
Speaker A: The habit sense snuck up on me — you adopt behaviours too?
Speaker B: Constantly — adopt a tone, adopt an approach, adopt a disguise. The Latin root "optare" means to choose — adopt is literally to choose for oneself. Option and adopt are siblings!
Speaker A: Every adoption is an option taken — that's rather lovely!
Speaker B: And ancient — Rome ran on it. Emperors adopted their heirs deliberately; some of the empire's best rulers were chosen sons rather than born ones. Adoption as strategy, two thousand years before tech companies discovered "early adopters".
Speaker A: Which brings us to the business sense — companies adopt things?
Speaker B: Endlessly — adopt a technology, adopt a policy, adopt a standard. Committees formally adopt resolutions; countries adopt currencies. Anywhere something external becomes officially internal, adopt clocks in.
Speaker A: Example sentences across the range?
Speaker B: "They adopted two children from the same foster home"; "the board adopted the new safety policy unanimously"; "I've adopted a strict no-phones-at-dinner rule" — family, formality, and self-improvement.
Speaker A: Common mistakes with the word?
Speaker B: The great confusion twin — "adapt"! One letter apart, worlds apart in meaning: you ADOPT a dog — take it as yours; you ADAPT to the dog — change yourself around it. Mixing them produces sentences like "we adapted a child", which alarms social services.
Speaker A: Adopt takes, adapt changes — the one-letter chasm! Close synonyms?
Speaker B: "Embrace" is adopt with enthusiasm — arms open; "take up" is the casual version — take up jogging; "espouse" is the formal one for causes and beliefs. "Adopt" carries the commitment — chosen AND kept. As your cat-flap now testifies in permanent plastic!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "adopt" in AI prompts — a workhorse word: it commands taking on standards, patterns, and practices wholesale.
Speaker A: So adopt in a prompt means take this as the new way?
Speaker B: Exactly. For code standards, you'd write:
Prompt: Adopt a consistent naming convention across my project — one style chosen for files, functions, and variables, every existing name migrated to it, and the rule written into a style file. Chosen once, kept everywhere, so the codebase speaks one language.
Speaker B: "Adopt" demands full commitment — not a suggestion, a migration.
Speaker A: The cat-flap installed, permanently! What about design systems?
Speaker B: The embrace prompt:
Prompt: Adopt a design token system in my app — colours, spacing, and fonts moved into named tokens, every hardcoded value replaced, and new components required to use them. The standard taken fully to heart, so consistency stops being optional.
Speaker A: What about measuring the human side — adoption rates?
Speaker B: The uptake prompt:
Prompt: Track feature adoption in my app — for each new feature, the percentage of users who tried it, kept using it after two weeks, and abandoned it, on one chart. Uptake measured honestly, so I build more of what gets adopted.
Speaker A: The features users take as their own! What about best practices?
Speaker B: The wholesale upgrade:
Prompt: Adopt accessibility best practices across my forms — labels on every field, errors announced to screen readers, and keyboard navigation throughout, with a checklist proving each page passes. The practice owned, not sampled, so no form is left behind.
Speaker A: Could adopt guide a big migration too?
Speaker B: The chosen-heir prompt:
Prompt: Plan how my team adopts the new framework — the pilot page first, lessons written down, then a page-by-page migration order with rollback points. Commitment staged sensibly, so the new way arrives without breaking the old.
Speaker A: So "adopt" unifies the names, tokenises the design, measures the uptake, owns the practices, and stages the migration.
Speaker B: Exactly — the choose-and-keep word: say adopt, and the AI knows it's forever, not a fling.
Frequently asked questions about Adopt
What does Adopt mean?
To take up and begin to use a method, policy or idea; also to legally take a child as one's own.
ما معنى كلمة Adopt بالعربي؟
يتبنّى — 🤲 يتبنّى يقبل منهجًا أو سياسة أو فكرة رسميًا ويعتمدها ✅
How do you pronounce Adopt?
Adopt is pronounced /əˈdɒpt/ and is used as a verb.
How is Adopt used in a sentence?
The board voted to adopt the revised patent policy.
What are synonyms of Adopt?
embrace, take up, accept, approve, assume, choose.