to adopt
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4.5
- verb
- /əˈdɑpt/
:
adaptar
- The director decided to adopt the best-selling novel for her next film adaptation.
With Elena Ferrante, for example, the Italian writer who now has there's an HBO show and and Maggie Gyllenhaal actually adopted another of her novels.
- With Elena Ferrante, for example, the Italian writer who now has there's an HBO show and and Maggie Gyllenhaal actually adopted another of her novels.
- And they adopted, adapted, it can't happen here to the stage, which meant, you know, it's very much truncated down.
Examples
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Adopting this Korean-style ostinato with Orff instruments would be another good approach to introduce Arirang to students.
Academic text (2013) -
Well, it was when the film really got, I guess, adopted by rappers and the rap movement.
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Or she might simply adopt it for Howards End.
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And they adopted, adapted, it can't happen here to the stage, which meant, you know, it's very much truncated down.
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All of the nine doctoral dissertations mentioned earlier adopt more or less a Marxist social theory.
Academic text (1997) -
The program evaluation standards adopted by CEC have significant potential to strengthen the preparation of special educators.
Academic text (2002) -
The variation structure adopted in chapter 16 would thus be a mise en abyme of the overall structure of the novel.
Academic text (2003) -
For the stage production, they had to adopt the storyline to fit the live performance format.
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The playwright adopted the famous book's characters, bringing them to life in a new theatrical way.
Synonyms
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4.1
To make a story into a play or film
To make a book or story into a film
To make something more dramatic and like a stage show
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Etymology
The word adopt comes from Latin ad- 'to' and optare 'choose', the same root as option, so to adopt a book for the stage is to choose it and make it into a new form.