adapt
English
Etymology
From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare (“to fit to”), from ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈdæpt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æpt
Verb
adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
- Synonym: proportion
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
- to adapt a story for the stage
- to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
- to bring out a play adapted from the French
- a word of an adapted form
- (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Derived terms
terms derived from adapt (verb)
Related terms
terms related to adapt (verb)
Translations
to make suitable
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to fit by alteration
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to make by altering
to change to make oneself suitable
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Adjective
Translations
adapted (adjective)
References
- adapt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈdap(t)/
Verb
adapt (third-person singular present adapts, present participle adaptin, past adaptit, past participle adaptit)
- to adapt
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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