adapt
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare (“to fit to”), from ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
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 [edit]
terms derived from adapt (verb)
Related terms [edit]
terms related to adapt (verb)
Translations [edit]
To make suitable
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To fit by alteration
To make by altering (e.g. adapt a book)
to change to make oneself suitable
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Adjective [edit]
adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
- Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
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Translations [edit]
adapted (adjective)
References [edit]
- adapt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
