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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"
Adoptive
- adjective - acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country"
- of parents and children; related by adoption; "adoptive parents"
Adultery
- noun - extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"
Adustion
- - The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
Aerating
- verb - aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
- expose to fresh air; "aerate your old sneakers"
- impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen; "oxygenate blood"
Aeration
- noun - the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent
- the process of exposing to air (so as to purify); "the aeration of the soil"