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Adapt vs Nonadapting - What's the difference?

adapt | nonadapting |

As adjectives the difference between adapt and nonadapting

is that adapt is adapted; fit; suited; suitable while nonadapting is not adapting.

As a verb adapt

is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.

adapt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
    • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Related terms

    * adaptational * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adaptability * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptional * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptorial

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    References

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    nonadapting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not adapting.
  • * 2007 , Peter J Russell, Stephen L Wolfe, Paul E Hertz, Cecie Starr, Biology: The Dynamic Science, Volume 3
    • Nonadapting receptors, such as those detecting pain, are also essential for survival.