Adapt vs Interpret - What's the difference?
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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 explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
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, title= To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
To act as an interpreter.
In intransitive terms the difference between adapt and interpret
is that adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted while interpret is to act as an interpreter.As verbs the difference between adapt and interpret
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while interpret is to explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.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
*interpret
English
Verb
(en verb)- Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
- And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
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