ADAPT
WordNet
verb
(1) Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
"We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
(2) Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
"Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From < < + < ; see apt.
Verb
- To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
- 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.
- 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.
Related terms
- adaptational
- adaptatively
- adaptativeness
- adaptedness
- adaptability
- adaptableness
- adaptably
- adaptional
- adaptive
- adaptively
- adaptiveness
- adaptorial