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Adjutant
- noun - an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- large Indian stork with a military gait
Adjutory
- - Serving to help or assist; helping.
Adjutrix
- - A female helper or assistant.
Admitted
- verb -
- admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
- allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
- allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club building"; "This pipe admits air"
- declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
- give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the yard"
- have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people"
- serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one adult to the show"
Adnation
- - The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Adoptees
- noun - someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
Adopters
- noun - a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
Adopting
- verb - choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
- put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
- 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 on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?"
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
Adoption
- noun - a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
- the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"