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Definition of Adapt

1. Verb. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose. "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"

2. Verb. Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions. "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"

Definition of Adapt

1. a. Fitted; suited.

2. v. t. 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.

Definition of Adapt

1. Verb. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion. ¹

2. 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. ¹

3. 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. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted. ¹

5. Adjective. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adapt

1. to make suitable [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: suitable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adapt

adamently adamite adams-stokes syndrome adamsite adamsites adance adangle adansonia adansonias adapalene

adapiform adapiforms adapoid adapoids adapt (current term) adaptabilities adaptability adaptable adaptableness adaptably

adaptation adaptation diseases adaptation syndrome of Selye adaptational adaptationally adaptationism adaptationist adaptationists adaptations

Literary usage of Adapt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Ideally represented connections are believed in, therefore, just in so far as they are for us conditions to which we must adapt ourselves in the pursuit of ..."

2. Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded by John Elliott Cairnes, ( (1874)
"It is as follows: The supply of a commodity always tends to adapt itself to the demand at the normal price. I may here say briefly, that by the normal price ..."

3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Musical Instruments—Sounds reproduced—Words modified to adapt sound to sense—Reduplication—Graduation of rowels to express distance and ..."

4. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1821)
"... and translated into English, with such alterations and additions as were found necessary, in order to adapt it to the use of the American student, pp. ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... having departed from extreme literalness only when it seemed necessary to secure some approach to the spirit of the original. adapt to this special ..."

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