übernehmen — meaning in English

English meaning

• adopt verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
• assume verb To accept something as true without proof.
• carry verb To hold something and move it from one place to another.

Senses

übernehmen is used for these senses in English:

• adopt To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
• assume To take on a position, duty or form
• carry (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
• stand in To substitute for; to replace; (theater) to serve as an understudy.
• take on (idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility for.
• transclude (programming) To replace a template or other input with its rendered text, such as when parsing wikitext. To include by transclusion. To process fetched data in-line.
• transclusion (computing) The inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying.

adopt — full definition

1. verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
2. verb To take a pet or cause under your care, or to start using an idea, method, or practice.

assume — full definition

1. verb To accept something as true without proof.
2. verb To take on a role, responsibility, or form.

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