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adapt::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | adjust, conform |
| Type of | get used to |
| Has types | acclimatise, acclimatize, acclimate, assimilate, focalise, focalize, focus, match, obey, readapt, readjust, square |
| Derivation | adaptable, adaptation, adaption, adaptive |
adapt::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accommodate |
| Type of | change, alter, vary |
| Has types | gear, adjust, tailor, naturalise, naturalize, tame, orient, pitch, anglicise, anglicize, transcribe, christianize, cultivate, domesticate, fit, electrify, shoehorn, wire |
| Derivation | adaptor, adaptable, adaptative, adapter |
Examples of adapt
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With bigger blockers in the middle, the outside hitter has been forced to adapt.
From the stltoday.com
Other species have managed to adapt to cataclysmic events or they have perished.
From the timesunion.com
Adapt to consumers'changing behavior rather than try to cling to the status quo.
From the businessweek.com
What's been tough is learning how to be social, and how to adapt to public life.
From the businessweek.com
How do you adapt one of the funniest movies of all time into a Broadway musical?
From the latimes.com
You have to applaud restaurateurs as they try to adapt to these uncertain times.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Even for birds that are adapting or trying to adapt, there are problems looming.
From the independent.co.uk
Grand-Am adjusted tire size regulations to adapt to the big cars'higher weights.
From the theepochtimes.com
America's Financial Network should adapt to the new rules of the global economy.
From the curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com
- Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
- Adjust: adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
- (adaptation) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"
- (adaptation) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- (adaptation) (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- ADAPT is a grassroots disability rights organization with chapters in 30 states. It is known for being part of the radical wing of the disability rights movement due to its history of nonviolent direct action in order to bring attention to the lack of civil rights the disability community has. ...
- Adapt is a 2004 album by Trace Bundy. This 2-disc set includes a full-length studio CD and a full-feature live DVD; recorded live at Flatirons Theater, June 30th, 2004.
- (Adaptation.) Adaptation (rendered as Adaptation.) is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief through self-referential events. ...
- Adaptation is the evolutionary process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat. This process takes place over many generations, and is one of the basic phenomena of biology.
