Adapt vs Proportionally - What's the difference?
adapt | proportionally |
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.
As a verb adapt
is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As an adverb proportionally is
in proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively.adapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.