Adaptable vs Germane - What's the difference?
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Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
* {{quote-book, author=Sabine Baring-Gould, title=, year=1901
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Related to the topic being discussed or considered.
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, date=August 5
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, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)
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(inorganic chemistry) germanium tetrahydride, GeH4
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any organic derivative of this compound.
Adaptable is a related term of germane.
As an adjective adaptable
is capable of adapting or of being adapted.As a noun germane is
german, member of germanic tribe.adaptable
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(wikipedia germane)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.}}
Book 1, Part 5.
- Yet this much is germane to the present inquiry: