Adapt vs Contemporize - What's the difference?
adapt | contemporize | Synonyms |
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 bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context
* {{quote-book, 1948, Gordon Allport & Leo Postman, The Psychology of Rumor
, passage=In the few instances where the initial description is couched in the past tense, immediate reversal occurs and the scene is contemporized by the listener.}}
(marketing) To modify, repackage, or present a well-known or traditional product or brand in a way that appeals to contemporary consumers.
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Contemporize is a synonym of adapt.
As verbs the difference between adapt and contemporize
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while contemporize is to bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context.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
*contemporize
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Alternative forms
* contemporiseVerb
(contemporiz)citation
- Oscar Mayer tapped him to try to find some way to reposition bologna and other troubled meats that were declining in popularity and sales...when Drane began working on the project, his orders were to “figure out how to contemporize what we’ve got.”