adapt

6 definitions found

adapt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Adapt \A*dapt"\, a.
     Fitted; suited. [Obs.] --Swift.
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  Adapt \A*dapt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adapted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Adapting.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F.
     adapter. See Apt, Adept.]
     To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as
     to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
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           For nature, always in the right,
           To your decays adapts my sight.          --Swift.
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           Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. --Angus.
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           Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy
           persons.                                 --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster] Adaptability

adapt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  adapt
      v 1: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our
           native cuisine to the available food resources of the new
           country" [syn: adapt, accommodate]
      2: adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We
         must adjust to the bad economic situation" [syn: adjust,
         conform, adapt]

adapt - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ADAPT
  
     <language> A subset of APT.
  
     [Sammet 1969, p. 606].
  
     (1995-02-14)
  

adapt - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  ADAPT
         Architecture Design, Analysis, and Planning Tool
         

adapt - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  152 Moby Thesaurus words for "adapt":
     acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate with, accord,
     accustom, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with, alter,
     ameliorate, arrange, assimilate, assimilate to, attune,
     be guided by, bend, better, break, break in, break up, capacitate,
     case harden, change, chime in with, comply, comply with, compose,
     condition, confirm, conform, convert, coordinate, correct,
     correspond, cut to, deform, denature, discipline, diversify,
     domesticate, domesticize, enable, equalize, equip, establish,
     fall in with, familiarize, fashion, fit, fix, follow, furnish,
     gear to, gentle, go by, habituate, harden, harmonize, homologate,
     homologize, housebreak, improve, instrument, instrumentate, inure,
     key to, make an adaptation, make conform, make plumb, make uniform,
     measure, meet, meliorate, melodize, mitigate, modify, modulate,
     mold, musicalize, mutate, naturalize, observe, orchestrate, orient,
     orient the map, orientate, overthrow, proportion, put in trim,
     put in tune, put to music, quadrate, qualify, re-create, realign,
     rebuild, reconcile, reconstruct, rectify, redesign, refit, reform,
     regulate, remake, remodel, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp,
     revive, right, ring the changes, rub off corners, score, season,
     set, set right, set to music, settle, shape, shift the scene,
     shuffle the cards, similarize, square, straighten, subvert, suit,
     sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, tame, temper, train,
     transcribe, transpose, trim to, true, true up, tune,
     turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down,
     vary, wont, work a change, worsen, write, yield