Wiktionary

adapt

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare (“to fit to”), from ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /əˈdæpt/
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  • Rhymes: -æpt

VerbEdit

adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)

  1. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
    Synonym: proportion
  2. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
    to adapt a story for the stage
    to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture
  3. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
    to bring out a play adapted from the French
    a word of an adapted form
  4. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
    They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from adapt (verb)

Related termsEdit

terms related to adapt (verb)

TranslationsEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)

  1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)

TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • adapt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

adapt (third-person singular present adapts, present participle adaptin, past adaptit, past participle adaptit)

  1. to adapt

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