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Adapted vs Becoming - What's the difference?

adapted | becoming | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between adapted and becoming

is that adapted is past tense of adapt while becoming is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun becoming is

the act or process in which something becomes.

As an adjective becoming is

pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous.

adapted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (adapt)

  • 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

    Adjective

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

    References

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    becoming

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, philosophy) The act or process in which something becomes.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous
  • decent, respectable