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Webster 1913 Edition
Adapt
A-dapt′
,Adj.
Fitted; suited.
[Obs.]
Swift.
A-dapt′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Adapted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Adapting
.] 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.
For nature, always in the right,
To your decays
To your decays
adapts
my sight. Swift.
Appeals
adapted
to his [man’s] whole nature. Angus.
Streets ill
adapted
for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adapt
ADAPT'
v.t. [L. ad. and apto, to fit; Gr.]To make suitable; to fit or suit; as, to adapt an instrument to its uses; we have provision adapted to our wants. It is applied to things material or immaterial.
Definition 2024
adapt
adapt
English
Verb
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; to proportion.
- (transitive) 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.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Derived terms
terms derived from adapt (verb)
Related terms
terms related to adapt (verb)
Translations
to make suitable
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to fit by alteration
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to make by altering
to change to make oneself suitable
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Adjective
adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
Translations
adapted (adjective)
References
- adapt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911