adapt

Verb
Synonyms: accommodateadjustconform

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose“Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country”Synonyms: accommodate
  2. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions“We must adjust to the bad economic situation”Synonyms: adjustconform
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Adapt \A*dapt"\, a. Fitted; suited. [Obs.] --Swift. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. --Swift. [1913 Webster]

Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. --Angus. [1913 Webster]

Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Adaptability

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

ADAPT

<language> A subset of APT.

[Sammet 1969, p. 606].

(1995-02-14)

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