Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for the rapid leveling of a compass, consisting of a spindle, ball, and ball-socket.
- noun One who or that which adopts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who adopts.
- noun (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
adopts
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- The pain of being an early adopter is you often end up collateral damage.
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As one of two social workers who regularly see Jamal (he also has a childcare visitor), Hooper has the task of finding a long-term adopter for the boy.
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As a result, site-visits to observe an innovation in use by an adopter are the main channels of diffusion.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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Problems of implementation are much more serious when the adopter is an organization rather than an individual.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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"If you are an early adopter, that is the risk you run," he says.
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Problems of implementation are usually more serious when the adopter is an organization rather than an individual.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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Problems of implementation are usually more serious when the adopter is an organization rather than an individual.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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After picking the little dog up from the SPCA's Grassy Park kennels, the "adopter" returned it to the woman's home, SPCA spokesperson Sarah Scarth said on Tuesday.
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Jeff Jordan is an "adopter" for Hampton's girls basketball team while they stay in Murfreesboro for the state tournament.
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"adopter" list the district handed out at Wednesday's meeting haven't had it long enough to know if it works.
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bilby commented on the word adopter
"'Foreign citizens who are single have no right to adopt children... and the age difference between the adopter and the child cannot be more than 45 years,' family, youth and sports minister Mr Pavlenko said."
- Elton 'cannot adopt in Ukraine', bbc.co.uk, 14 September 2009.
September 14, 2009