Adjustment vs Alter - What's the difference?
adjustment | alter |
a small change; a minor correction; a modification
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
As a noun adjustment
is a small change; a minor correction; a modification.As an adjective alter is
.adjustment
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Noun
(en noun)- The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
- When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.
Synonyms
* change * correction * modificationSee also
* (wikipedia)alter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
