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adapt

verb, adj — 5 senses

adapt

verb

/əˈdæpt/

Etymology From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

1

To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

2

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

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

To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

  • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Derived terms
adaptable, adaptate, adaptation, adaptative, adapter, adaption, adaptitude, adaptly, adaptness, adaptogen, adaptor, coadapt, counteradapt, deadapt, maladapt, misadapt, nonadapting, osmoadapt, overadapt, preadapt, readapt, unadapt
Related terms
adaptability, adaptableness, adaptably, adaptational, adaptatively, adaptativeness, adaptedness, adaptional, adaptive, adaptively, adaptiveness, adaptorial

adapt

adj

Etymology From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

1

Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

  • This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.c. 1709, Merlin's Prophecy, Jonathan Swift:

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