adapt in English dictionary

  • adapt

    Meanings and definitions of "adapt"

    • (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
    • (transitive) 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.
    • (transitive) 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.
    • (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
    • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • adjective
      Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      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.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      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.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To change oneself so as to be adapted.
    • To make suitable
    • To fit by alteration
    • To make by altering (e.g. adapt a book)
    • adapted (adjective)
    • adapt (e.g. a novel)
    • To change to reach a certain scope or condition.
    • verb
      adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
    • verb
      make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"

    Synonyms of "adapt" in English dictionary

    accommodate, conform, adjust are the top synonyms of "adapt" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of adapt

    • adapt ( comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
    • adapt ( third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)
    • adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
    • adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)
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