As verbs the difference between adapt and adjusting
is that
adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while
adjusting is present participle of lang=en.
As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
As a noun adjusting is
adjustment.
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
Related terms
* adaptational
* adaptatively
* adaptativeness
* adaptedness
* adaptability
* adaptableness
* adaptably
* adaptional
* adaptive
* adaptively
* adaptiveness
* adaptorial
Adjective
( en adjective)
Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
- (Jonathan Swift)
References
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adjusting English
Verb
(head)
Noun
( en noun)
adjustment
* 1919 , The Cornell Countryman (volumes 17-18, page 264)
- The big economic shiftings and adjustings pinch us now and then; and we shall save energy if we adapt ourselves forthwith, without reviling the rest of the family.
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