To select and take or approve.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
To elect.
To prefer; to wish; to desire.
To decide to act in a certain way.
The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.