Acclimatise vs Adapt - What's the difference?
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To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
To change oneself so as to be adapted.
Acclimatise is a related term of adapt.
As verbs the difference between acclimatise and adapt
is that acclimatise is while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.acclimatise
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The England manager can be encouraged by more evidence that Rickie Lambert has quickly acclimatised to international football, with another headed goal to add to the one he scored against Scotland, but Welbeck's ban comes at a time when Wayne Rooney and Andy Carroll are already out and Daniel Sturridge is likely to join them.
adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.