Adapt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation.
  • verb-intransitive. To become adapted: a species that has adapted well to winter climes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • v. To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel 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.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To change oneself so as to be adapted.
  • adj. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Fitted; suited.
  • v. To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • Same as immunize.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
  • v. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
  • Verb Form
    adapted    adapting    adaptively    adapts   
    Cross Reference
    qualify   
    Form
    adapted    adapting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fitted    suited    adjust    prepare    accommodate    fit    conform    suit    coördinate    coordinate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    apt    capped    clapped    entrapped    flapped    kept    lapped    mapped    napped    rapped