Adapt vs Reproduce - What's the difference?
adapt | reproduce |
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 produce an image or copy of something.
(biology) To generate offspring (sexually or asexually), or organisms.
To produce again; to recreate.
To bring something to mind; to recall.
As verbs the difference between adapt and reproduce
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while reproduce is to produce an image or copy of something.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
*reproduce
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Verb
(reproduc)- Humans and other mammals reproduce with their genitals.
