Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation.
- intransitive verb To cause to be able to survive and reproduce under certain conditions. Used in the passive.
- intransitive verb To become adapted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
immunize . - To make suitable; make to correspond; fit or suit; proportion.
- To fit by alteration; modify or remodel for a different purpose: as, to
adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture. To make by altering or fitting something else; produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form. - Adapted; fit; suitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by
to orfor . - adjective obsolete Fitted; suited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
suitable ; to make tocorrespond ; to fit or suit; toproportion . - verb transitive To
fit byalteration ; tomodify orremodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture. - verb transitive To make by altering or fitting something else; to
produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form. - verb intransitive To change oneself so as to be adapted.
- adjective Adapted;
fit ;suited ;suitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- verb adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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If the ability to adapt is limited, the possibility to be a foster parent reduce.
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If the ability to adapt is limited, the possibility to be a foster parent reduce.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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You can not do that in Latin base languages so people adapt the English word or have to describe the object or concept.
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fbharjo commented on the word adapt
add to 'apt' (list) adapt
July 1, 2011