adecuado
adj.
adequate, suitable, appropriate
adecuar
v.
proportion
adecuarse
v.
adapt oneself
adecuado
= adequate, appropriate, apt, desirable, suitable, competent, convenient, correct, eligible, felicitous, fine [finer -comp., finest -sup.], fit [fitter -comp., fittest -sup.], proper, successful, timely, fitting, commensurate, accommodating, timely, fit for purpose, beffiting.
Ex: There must be provision for changes necessary to keep the coverage of subjects adequate for new literature.
Ex: Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
Ex: By building upon a more apt conceptual framework the transfer of information technology can play a role, albeit limited, in the development process.
Ex: It is desirable that they be treated as parts of a single serials record, since this will provide a 'one-stop' file containing all the relevant data, and will produce a file with a number of funtions.
Ex: The approach which is suitable in specialised indexing tools for medical research will need to be very specific in order to differentiate between two closely related subjects.
Ex: Those responsible in libraries must ensure that the users are given competent advice.
Ex: The most convenient manual format for recording terms is to write each term on a card.
Ex: If an entry with cross-references or notes must be corrected, add the correct form and then delete the incorrect form.
Ex: And yet, everyone knows that historically only a very small portion of the eligible users have ever crossed the threshold of a public library.
Ex: This is hardly a felicitous solution to be followed in other similar cases.
Ex: The solution is fine when the qualifying term that the user seeks is present, and is used relatively consistently.
Ex: That was considered to be a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
Ex: With proper authorization, you may request information about the status of the copies displayed.
Ex: Someone's off-the-cuff idea may be the clue that will tap another's thought and lead to a successful solution.
Ex: I believe that the issues brought forth and debated in the following papers and discussions are as timely today as they were when the institutes were first held.
Ex: Since libraries are the lifeblood of research, it seems only fitting then that the education of librarians should include familiarity with research methodology.
Ex: For their indifference, they were rewarded with personnel evaluations which reflected an imaginatively fabricated version of the truth, but which did afford the requisite ego boost and commensurate pay increase.
Ex: Monitors tuned to television news may have to be located in areas that are less than accommodating to the large numbers of users who want to know the fast-breaking events which affect us all.
Ex: I am not very good at fortune telling but I suspect it may be timely for people to communicate briefly on strategy and options with him.
Ex: Commercial pressures are placing demands on the designer to provide solutions which are fit for purpose for all user groups.
Ex: Since I write in English I should really refer to the city as Florence, but Firenze is such a phonically beautiful sounding word, far more befitting of the beautiful Italian city.
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* adecuado para = accommodative to, well suited to/for.
* considerar adecuado = judge + suitable, consider + appropriate.
* creer adecuado = see + fit, think + fit.
* de forma adecuada = adequately.
* de un modo adecuado = appropriately.
* el más adecuado = ideally suited.
* el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
* en el momento adecuado = at the right time.
* lo adecuado = adequacy.
* no ser lo más adecuado para = ill suited to/for.
* poco adecuado = unsuited, unsuitable, inapt.
* prácticas más adecuadas = lessons learned [lessons learnt], best practices.
* proporcionar el + Nombre + adecuado al + Nombre + adecuado en el m = provide + the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
* resultar adecuado = prove + suitable.
* ser adecuado = be right, stand up.
adecuar
= pitch, retrofit.
Ex: Thus pitching instructions at the right level can be difficult.
Ex: This model is attractive both for 'retrofitting' existing software as well as providing flexibility to new systems.
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* adecuar a una necesidad = suit + purpose, tailor to + demand.
* adecuarse = fit, suit.
* adecuarse mejor = best + fit.