Adapt vs Rewrite - What's the difference?
adapt | rewrite |
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 write again, differently (to modify).
To write again (without changing).
As verbs the difference between adapt and rewrite
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while rewrite is to write again, differently (to modify).As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As a noun rewrite is
the act of writing again or anew.adapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.