adapt

From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare (“to fit to”), from ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

• IPA^(key): /əˈdæpt/

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• Rhymes: -æpt

adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)

1. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit

   Synonym: proportion

2. (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

3. (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

4. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.

   They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)

1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

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• adapt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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• IPA^(key): /əˈdap(t)/

adapt (third-person singular present adapts, present participle adaptin, past adaptit, past participle adaptit)

1. to adapt

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.