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Adapted vs Handly - What's the difference?

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Adapted is a related term of handly.


As a verb adapted

is (adapt).

As an adjective handly is

of or pertaining to the hand; manual.

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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    handly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
  • * 1921 , Peter George Mode, Source book and bibliographical guide for American church history :
  • George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
  • * 1971 , World justice: Volume 12:
  • [...] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off -set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
  • * 2009 , Philip Durkin, The Oxford guide to etymology :
  • The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.
  • Handy; manageable.
  • * 1859 , The Spectator: Volume 32:
  • The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.