Adapt vs Accord - What's the difference?
adapt | accord |
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.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
* 1769 ,
* Francis Bacon
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
* 17th' ' century , "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", ,
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
(legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
(international law) An international agreement.
(obsolete) Assent
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
* Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
(lb) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
*1590 , (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) , p.150:
*:[H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
(lb) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
*, Book III:
*:But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
(lb) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
*1593 , (William Shakespeare), , III-i:
*:For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
*1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , :
*:[T]hy actions to thy words accord ;
*
*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(lb) To agree in pitch and tone.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
*1951 , United Nations' , article 14:
*:In respect of the protection of industrial property,a refugee shall be accorded' in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is ' accorded to nationals of that country.
To give consent.
To arrive at an agreement.
As verbs the difference between adapt and accord
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while accord is (lb) to make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As a noun accord is
agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Derived terms
* adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptorReferences
*accord
English
Noun
(en noun)- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- a mediator of an accord and peace between them
- Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
- the accord of light and shade in painting
- (Blackstone)
- The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord .
- That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.