Associations to the word «Adapt»

Wiktionary

ADAPT, verb. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
ADAPT, verb. (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.
ADAPT, verb. (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.
ADAPT, verb. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
ADAPT, adjective. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

Dictionary definition

ADAPT, verb. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country".
ADAPT, verb. Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation".

Wise words

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