adapt
v.
conform; change, make suitable; match, fit; adapt oneself, become adjusted
adapt
Verb
1. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
(synonym) accommodate
(hypernym) change, alter, vary
(hyponym) adjust
(derivation) adapter, adaptor
2. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
(synonym) adjust, conform
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) readjust, readapt
(derivation) adaptation, adjustment
Adapting
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Adapt
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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APT.
[Sammet 1969, p. 606].
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ADJustment
adcommodatus| adcommodata -um| adcommodatior -or -us| adcommodatissimus -a -um ADJ
fit/suitable/appropriate; suiting the interests (of); favorably disposed (to)