Adapted vs Disposed - What's the difference?
adapted | disposed |
(adapt)
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.
(dispose)
Inclined; minded.
*(Bible), (w) xviii.27:
*:when he was disposed to pass into Achaia
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(lb) Inclined to mirth; jolly.
:(Beaumont and Fletcher)
As verbs the difference between adapted and disposed
is that adapted is (adapt) while disposed is (dispose).As an adjective disposed is
inclined; minded.adapted
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Verb
(head)adapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.