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adapt English

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Definitions in simple English

adapt Verb

— If you adapt to changes, conditions, needs, etc., you change to fit them. It was difficult to adapt to the changes, but I work much better now. It's a special military vehicle adapted for use in the snow. — You can adapt book or other work to a movie, musical, or other form of entertainment. Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher", was adapted to a movie in 1960.

adapt

— verb make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country — verb (= adjust, conform) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions We must adjust to the bad economic situation

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adjust accommodate fit conform modify assimilate match change apply alter acclimatize arrange regulate acclimate turn into key gear tune transpose transfer transcribe suit square settle reconcile make practical use make over grow accustomed fashion coordinate become accustomed to attune try on try treat transplant toe the line socialize socialise settle in set select rewrite renovate remould remold remake relocate relate reconstruct

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Simple sentences

You must adapt to a variety of conditions.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Complaining about something is one way to adapt yourself to a new environment.
It is generally hard to adapt to living in a foreign culture.
It is hard to adapt this story for children.
Some plants cannot adapt themselves to the cold.
The young adapt to change easily.
The curry they serve in Japan is milder than real Indian curry. They adapt it to Japanese tastes.
He tried to adapt himself to his new surroundings.
He couldn't adapt to new circumstances.
She found it was difficult to adapt herself to her new surroundings.
A sober-minded man adapts himself to outward things; a reckless man tries to adapt outward things to himself. That's why progress depends on reckless people.
Those who belong to larger, more powerful language communities rarely alter their linguistic practices to adapt to less powerful groups.
We must adapt to today's harsh realities.
I am slow to adapt myself to new circumstances.
Why don't you adapt your way of life to circumstances?
Tom will adapt quickly.
You just have to adapt.

Movie subtitles

And then with the Wadsworths having a large manor we could use while they were away, we thought wouldn't it be jolly good fun to adapt it into real life.
Maybe you need to adapt.
If anybody in Everytown can adapt to that crude oil for our aeroplanes, it's Harding.
You have 48 hours. That's the time it needs to adapt itself.
We want you to adapt your building like this.
I'm designing a building right now where I can use an idea like this and I'd have to adapt it, of course.
It was foolish of me to think that we could adapt ourselves to each other.
With that knowledge, perhaps we can teach men to adapt themselves to some new world of the future.
You'd adapt you to many things.
You adapt, you get used to it.
Maybe even love can be saved, when you adapt to live properly.
Gotta improvise, overcome, adapt.
You must give us a little time to adapt ourselves.
Some snakes can adapt to cold weather, but this one needs warmth.
You should adapt to your environment. Follow local customs.
Your Majesty must first adapt to the climate.
I think I must rather adapt to the thought to never get healthy again.
It's possible I could adapt one of the torpedo guidance systems to the I.C.B.M. so it would home on the saucer when he rises from the Pole.
Adapt a complicated guidance system to a huge ballistic rocket. Convert it to a water-to-air interceptor missile. It was foolish.
One has to adapt - you too.
They can't adapt to this place. It's.
What about those who can't adapt and don't commit suicide?
Adapt yourself.
We are in India, adapt.
Therefore, you'll have to adapt yourself to the RCAF manner of flying.
Such anomalies are to be considered harmful when they disrupt the progress of an individual's everyday existence and diminish his or her ability to adapt to life in society.
You can forget worldly affairs. and. adapt yourself to the balls.
You oriental communities, with all due respect, must try and adapt to our country's new, modern reality, and forget your own barbarian customs which you brought with you.
We do not have to adapt to the environment.
Adapt to Weaponry.
Me, a person with higher education, has to sneak around, adapt and wriggle!
We may be able to adapt some of its power packs to our engines.
Their original purpose was to adapt this planet for productive use.
I can adapt them and use their energy.
Those that were able to adapt to this world are still alive.
Those who couldn't adapt are dead.

News and current affairs

But much of this damage will be avoided by people choosing for themselves to adapt to a change in their environment.
It is during the war after the war that the occupier's inferiority is revealed, with constant reinforcements increasing the number of targets for the insurgents far more quickly than the occupier can adapt to the changing battlefield.
Help for poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to adapt to climate change should not be described as charity or aid, but rather as compensation for damages being imposed on the poorest people on the planet.
Statecraft has yet to adapt.
As the world's leading-edge economy, America faces the hardest work in ensuring growth, for it must create - not only copy and adapt - new technologies, better forms of capital, and more productive business organizations.
They evolve and adapt easily, which means that they learn to sidestep our drugs over time.
Briefly stress consists of a pattern of built-in processes preparing the human organism for physical activity in response to demands and influences that tax its capacity to adapt.
Trade and foreign direct investment have made it much easier for emerging countries to absorb and adapt best-practice technology invented in the advanced economies.
This is true, because the poor are the most vulnerable and have the least resources with which to adapt.
But China is too big and too political to be pushed so fast that it is not permitted sufficient time to adapt properly.
Many technologies that could help countries adapt to the consequences of climate change already exist.
All of this serves to complicate an imperative that is relevant not just to governments, but also to companies and individuals that must adapt to changing circumstances by upgrading their structures, procedures, skills, and mindsets.
Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.
For example, a fundamental problem is that the nature of global trade is constantly evolving, and existing agreements have only limited capacity to adapt.
Second, adequate resources should be made available to poor and vulnerable regions and countries to enable them to adapt to climate change.
Developed countries are thus morally obliged to pay partial compensation to poor and vulnerable countries and regions to cover part of the cost of the investments needed to adapt to climate change.
Committing to massive cuts in carbon emissions will leave future generations poorer and less able to adapt to challenges.
How will they adapt to enable their partner to fulfill his or her career aspirations?
In the short term, Palestine needs more water to provide employment and income from farming; in the longer term, educational, cultural, and political changes are needed in order to develop a capacity to adapt.
As science and technologies evolve, risk assessments and the dialogue between scientists and governments must adapt.
Organizations, businesses, and people all have to adapt to the technologically driven shifts in our economies' structure.
As humans, we are highly evolved to adjust to our surroundings: we tend to adapt to a culture, well-conceived or not, and lose sight of its failings.
The European Central Bank must adapt to the fiscal pact's new rules.
Africa needs additional resources, over and above existing aid commitments, to adapt to climate change.
All that will be decided by the West's globally dominant automobile industry is whether it will adapt and have a chance to survive or go the way of other old Western industries: to the developing world.
Globalization accelerates the pace of economic and social change in developing countries, which means that new institutions must adapt even before they fully take root.
In the nineteenth century, when the Tunisian craft guilds failed to adapt to industrialization, they became irrelevant, and the amins, or guild masters, were left as figureheads in shell institutions.
In this age of uncertainty, when even the nature of the threats that nations face is uncertain, Japan's strategic and military planners must continue to seek ways to adapt the SDF to today's myriad current threats.

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