Adjust vs Tailor - What's the difference?
adjust | tailor |
To modify.
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, title= To improve or rectify.
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, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
(Australia) The fish .
To make, repair, or alter clothes.
To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
In transitive terms the difference between adjust and tailor
is that adjust is to settle an insurance claim while tailor is to restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.As a noun tailor is
a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.adjust
English
Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
Synonyms
* (to modify something) change, edit, modify, setDerived terms
(terms derived from adjust) * adjustable * adjuster * adjustment * disadjust * misadjust * overadjust * readjustExternal links
* (Adjustment)tailor
English
(wikipedia tailor)Alternative forms
* tailour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummySynonyms
* (fish ) bluefishVerb
(en verb)- .