Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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crossover | Yes | No | No | No |
adoption | Yes | No | No | No |
crossover (noun) | adoption (noun) |
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a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception |
the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source |
a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | 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 interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis |