adapt

adapt

fit, adjust, alter, or modify: She will adapt the costume to fit.
Not to be confused with:adept – thoroughly proficient; an expert: He is adept at landscaping difficult lots.adopt – take another’s child as one’s own: I will adopt my late sister’s boy.; to accept: adopt a proposal

a·dapt

A0078000 (ə-dăpt′)v. a·dapt·ed, a·dapt·ing, a·dapts v.tr.1. To make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation: adapted the novel into a movie; adapted the company policy to take internet use into account.2. To cause to be able to survive and reproduce under certain conditions. Used in the passive: "Every species is adapted to a rather restricted selection of properties of the environment" (Ernst Mayr).v.intr. To become adapted: a species that has adapted to a low-oxygen environment.

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[Middle English adapten, from Latin adaptāre : ad-, ad- + aptāre, to fit (from aptus, fitting; see apt).]

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a·dapt′ed·ness n.Synonyms: adapt, accommodate, adjust, conform, fit¹
These verbs mean to make suitable to or consistent with a particular situation or use: adapted themselves to city life; can't accommodate myself to the new requirements; adjusting their behavior to the rules; conforming my life to accord with my moral principles; fitting the punishment to the crime.

adapt

(əˈdæpt) vb1. (often foll by to) to adjust (someone or something, esp oneself) to different conditions, a new environment, etc2. (tr) to fit, change, or modify to suit a new or different purpose: to adapt a play for use in schools. [C17: from Latin adaptāre, from ad- to + aptāre to fit, from aptus apt] aˈdaptable adj aˌdaptaˈbility, aˈdaptableness n aˈdaptive adj

a•dapt

(əˈdæpt)

v.t. 1. to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly. v.i. 2. to adjust oneself to different conditions, environment, etc. [1605–15; < Latin adaptāre to fit, adjust. See ad-, apt] a•dapt′ed•ness, n. syn: See adjust.

adapt

Past participle: adapted
Gerund: adapting

Imperative
adapt
adapt

Present
I adapt
you adapt
he/she/it adapts
we adapt
you adapt
they adapt

Preterite
I adapted
you adapted
he/she/it adapted
we adapted
you adapted
they adapted

Present Continuous
I am adapting
you are adapting
he/she/it is adapting
we are adapting
you are adapting
they are adapting

Present Perfect
I have adapted
you have adapted
he/she/it has adapted
we have adapted
you have adapted
they have adapted

Past Continuous
I was adapting
you were adapting
he/she/it was adapting
we were adapting
you were adapting
they were adapting

Past Perfect
I had adapted
you had adapted
he/she/it had adapted
we had adapted
you had adapted
they had adapted

Future
I will adapt
you will adapt
he/she/it will adapt
we will adapt
you will adapt
they will adapt

Future Perfect
I will have adapted
you will have adapted
he/she/it will have adapted
we will have adapted
you will have adapted
they will have adapted

Future Continuous
I will be adapting
you will be adapting
he/she/it will be adapting
we will be adapting
you will be adapting
they will be adapting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been adapting
you have been adapting
he/she/it has been adapting
we have been adapting
you have been adapting
they have been adapting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been adapting
you will have been adapting
he/she/it will have been adapting
we will have been adapting
you will have been adapting
they will have been adapting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been adapting
you had been adapting
he/she/it had been adapting
we had been adapting
you had been adapting
they had been adapting

Conditional
I would adapt
you would adapt
he/she/it would adapt
we would adapt
you would adapt
they would adapt

Past Conditional
I would have adapted
you would have adapted
he/she/it would have adapted
we would have adapted
you would have adapted
they would have adapted

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	adapt - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"accommodatevary, alter, change - become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"adjust - make correspondent or conformable; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"gear, pitch - set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"fit - insert or adjust several objects or people; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"anglicise, anglicize - make English in appearance; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London"shoehorn - fit for a specific purpose even when not well suitedtailor, orient - adjust to a specific need or market; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings"domesticate, tame - make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"domesticate, tame, cultivate, naturalise, naturalize - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"Christianize - adapt in the name of Christianity; "some people want to Christianize ancient pagan sites"naturalise, naturalize - adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting"electrify, wire - equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance"transcribe - rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
	2.	adapt - adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"conform, adjustchange - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"readjust, readapt - adjust anew; "After moving back to America, he had to readjust"readapt - adapt anew; "He readapted himself"assimilate - become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"focalise, focalize, focus - become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused"acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize - get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt"match - be equal or harmonize; "The two pieces match"obey - be obedient tosquare - cause to match, as of ideas or acts

adapt

verb1. adjust, change, match, alter, modify, accommodate, comply, conform, reconcile, harmonize, familiarize, habituate, acclimatize Things will be different and we will have to adapt.2. convert, change, prepare, fit, fashion, make, shape, suit, qualify, transform, alter, modify, tailor, remodel, tweak (informal), metamorphose, customize Shelves were built to adapt the library for use as an office.

adapt

verbTo make or become suitable to a particular situation or use:acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, adjust, conform, fashion, fit, reconcile, square, suit, tailor.

Translations

改编使适应

adapt

(əˈdӕpt) verb to change or alter (so as to fit a different situation etc). She always adapted easily to new circumstances; He has adapted the play for television. 使適應，改編 使适应，改编 ˌadapˈtation (ӕ-) noun 適應，改編本 适应，改编本 aˈdaptable adjective willing or able to change to fit in with different circumstances. Children are usually very adaptable. 能適應的 能适应的aˌdaptaˈbility noun 適應性 适应性aˈdaptor noun a device which enables an electrical plug of one type to be used in a socket of another type, or several plugs to be used in the same socket at the same time. 轉接器 接续器

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