Adapt vs Edit - What's the difference?
adapt | edit |
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 change a text, or a document.
To be the editor of a publication.
In transitive terms the difference between adapt and edit
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 edit is to be the editor of a publication.As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As a noun edit is
a change to the text of a document.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
*edit
English
Verb
(en verb)- I want to edit this sentence.
- Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.
- He edits the Bee.
