Adapt vs Bestow - 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.
To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; stow; place.
* 1611 , King James Bible, Luke 12:17:
* 1977 , ", HarperCollins, page 358:
To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation.
* 1838 , Ben Jonson, The works of Ben Jonson :
To dispose of.
* 1810 , Robert Dodsley, Sir Walter Scott, The Ancient British drama :
To give; confer; impart gratuitously; present something to someone as a gift or honour.
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* 1831 , (Mary Shelley),
To give in marriage.
To apply; make use of; use; employ.
* 1887 , John Marston, Arthur Henry Bullen, The Works of John Marston :
(obsolete) To behave or deport.
In transitive terms the difference between adapt and bestow
is that adapt is 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 while bestow is to apply; make use of; use; employ.As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.adapt
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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
*bestow
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Verb
(en verb)- And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits.
- Of the Three Rings that the Elves had preserved unsullied no open word was ever spoken among the Wise, and few even of the Eldar knew where they were bestowed .
- Well, my masters, I'll leave him with you; now I see him bestowed , I'll go look for my goods, and Numps.
- Here are blank warrants of all dispositions; give me but the name and nature of your malefactor, and I'll bestow him according to his merits.
- Medals were bestowed on the winning team.
The Large Hadron Collider Game”
- CERN bestows slush fund on the LHC. Take all pennies from the CERN space.
- Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.
- [...] I determine to bestow Some time in learning languages abroad; [...]