Adaption vs. Adapt — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adaption and Adapt
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Adaption
Adaptation.
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.
Adaption
Adaptation.
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).
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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Adapt
To become able to survive and reproduce under certain conditions
Hawks have adapted to living in cities.
Adapt
(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
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
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
Adapt
(intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Adapt
Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
Adapt
Fitted; suited.
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.
Adapt
Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;
Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country
Adapt
Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions;
We must adjust to the bad economic situation
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