adopt

/əˈdɑpt/

意味: 採用する・養子にする

例文: June adopted a cloud and named it Bob.
　　  ジューンは雲を養子にして「ボブ」と命名。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: adopt a child（子どもを養子にする）, adopt a policy（方針を採用する）, adopt a new approach（新しいやり方を採用する）

定義: 他人の子どもを正式に自分の子どもとして迎えること。または考え方・方法・習慣などを取り入れて使い始めることも意味します。

adoptは約60,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
Verb: take up and practice as one’s own
Verb: take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
Verb: take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
Verb: take into one’s family
Verb: put into dramatic form
Verb: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one’s own

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Many families choose to adopt pets from local shelters.(多くの家族が地元のシェルターからペットを飼うことを選びます。)
I decided to adopt a new hobby during the pandemic.(私はパンデミック中に新しい趣味を始めることに決めました。)
The committee unanimously agreed to adopt the proposed environmental policy.(委員会は提案された環境政策を全会一致で採択しました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: She followed the feminist movement
Verb: The candidate espouses Republican ideals
Verb: When will the new President assume office?
Verb: His voice took on a sad tone
Verb: The story took a new turn
Verb: he adopted an air of superiority
Verb: She assumed strange manners
Verb: The gods assume human or animal form in these fables
Verb: They adopted two children from Nicaragua
Verb: adopt a book for a screenplay
Verb: She embraced Catholicism
Verb: They adopted the Jewish faith

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): acquire, adopt, assume, borrow, dramatise, dramatize, embrace, espouse, follow, sweep up, take, take in, take on, take over, take up

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): accept, change, choose, take, take office, write

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accede, accept, acetylate, acknowledge, adjust, adopt, alkalinize, americanize, annotate, anoint, approbate, ascend, assibilate, assign, assimilate, assume, author, barbarize, bear, believe, boil, break, break into, brutalize, calcify, capacitate, carbonate, caseate, catch, catch on, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, clinker, collapse, collect, come, come in, come round, commute, complexify, concretize, conjugate, convert, cool, crack, crash, cream off, creolize, cull out, cure, damage, darken, dash off, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deoxidize, deprive, desalinate, destabilize, develop, dial, die, digest, dim, discolor, dissimilate, distill, draft, dramatize, draw, dress, drift, drop, dry, dull, elect, empanel, espouse, evaporate, excerpt, fail, fall, fall for, felt, feminize, field, flip, flocculate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freshen, gel, gelatinize, give way, glaze, go out, gradate, grow, gum, harden, have, honor, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, impound, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, introject, ionize, isomerize, keratinize, leave, liberalize, lighten, lyric, make, mature, mellow, modernize, modify, mold, move, mutate, narrow, nominate, normalize, obsolesce, occult, opacify, oxidise, oxidize, pall, paragraph, pass, pick, plasticize, play out, plump, pocket, prim, professionalize, profile, promote, purify, recall, recede, receive, recombine, reference, reflate, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, reorient, repress, resign, respect, resume, reticulate, rewrite, rise, roll, salinate, saponify, screen, script, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shallow, shear, shift, sieve, sieve out, single out, smoothen, snap up, soften, solarize, specify, spot, stabilize, stagnate, steepen, stiffen, stratify, strengthen, sublime, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, swing, synthesize, take a bow, take away, take back, think of, tighten, transaminate, transform, transpire, turn, turn on, ulcerate, unburden, undergo, undulate, vascularize, verse, vesiculate, vitrify, vote, vote in, vulcanize, warm, warm up, welcome, write copy, write off, write on, write out

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): adhere, re-assume, resume, take up

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: adoptable, adoptee, adopter, adoption, adoptive, assumption, drama, dramatisation, dramatist, dramatization, embrace, espousal, following

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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