1.choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;
She followed the feminist movement
2.take up and practice as one's own
3.take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;
When will the new President assume office?
4.take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;
His voice took on a sad tone
5.take into one's family;
They adopted two children from Nicaragua
6.put into dramatic form;
adopt a book for a screenplay
7.take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;
She embraced Catholocism