Adapt vs Contents - What's the difference?
adapt | contents |
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.
(usually plural) That which is contained.
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, chapter=1 (pluralonly) A table of contents, a list of chapters, etc. in a book, and the page numbers on which they start.
As verbs the difference between adapt and contents
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while contents is (content).As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As a noun contents is
.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
*contents
English
Noun
(head)- It is not covered in your homeowner's policy. You need contents insurance.
- The contents of the cup had a familiar aroma.
citation, passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,
- I always start a book by reading the dustjacket and the contents before I really dig in to the content itself.