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Adapt vs Capacitate - What's the difference?

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Adapt is a related term of capacitate.


In lang=en terms the difference between adapt and capacitate

is that adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted while capacitate is to make capable.

As verbs the difference between adapt and capacitate

is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while capacitate is to make capable.

As an adjective adapt

is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

adapt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
  • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
  • (Jonathan Swift)

    References

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    capacitate

    English

    Verb

    (capacitat)
  • To make capable.
  • By this instruction we may be capacitated to observe those errors. — Dryden.
  • (zoology) To alter sperm to allow to fertilize eggs.
  • Derived terms

    * incapacitate * capacitation ----