Acquired vs Adapted - What's the difference?
acquired | adapted |
(acquire)
(medicine) Developed postfetally; not congenital.
(adapt)
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.
As verbs the difference between acquired and adapted
is that acquired is (acquire) while adapted is (adapt).As an adjective acquired
is (medicine) developed postfetally; not congenital.acquired
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(-)adapted
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(head)adapt
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(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.