adapt
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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
VerbEdit
adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
- Synonym: proportion
- (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
- (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
- (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
to make suitable
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to fit by alteration
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to make by altering
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to change to make oneself suitable
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AdjectiveEdit
adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
- Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)
TranslationsEdit
adapted (adjective)
ReferencesEdit
- adapt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.