Adapt vs Evolve - What's the difference?
adapt | evolve |
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 move in regular procession through a system.
* Sir M. Hale
* (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
* (w) (1819-1885)
To change, transform, develop.
* 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
As verbs the difference between adapt and evolve
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while evolve is to move in regular procession through a system.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
*evolve
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Verb
- The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
- You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}