Adapt vs. Adopted — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adapt and Adopted
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Adapt
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.
Adopted
To take on the legal responsibilities as parent of (a child that is not one's biological child).
Adapt
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).
Adopted
To become the owner or caretaker of (a pet, especially one from a shelter).
Adapt
To change in order to meet the requirements of new circumstances or conditions
The music business had to adapt to digital technology.
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Adopted
To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent
Adopt a new technique.
Adapt
To become able to survive and reproduce under certain conditions
Hawks have adapted to living in cities.
Adopted
To take up and make one's own
Adopt a new idea.
Adapt
(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
Adopted
To move to or resettle in (a place).
Adapt
(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
Adopted
To take on or assume
Adopted an air of importance.
Adapt
(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
Adopted
To vote to accept
Adopt a resolution.
Adapt
(intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Adopted
To choose as standard or required in a course
Adopt a new line of English textbooks.
Adapt
Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
Adopted
Simple past tense and past participle of adopt
Adapt
Fitted; suited.
Adopted
Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
Adapt
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.
For nature, always in the right,To your decays adapts my sight.
Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature.
Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons.
Adopted
Acquired as your own by free choice;
My adopted state
An adoptive country
Adapt
Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;
Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country
Adopted
Having been taken into a specific relationship;
An adopted child
Adapt
Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions;
We must adjust to the bad economic situation
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