Cater vs Adapt - What's the difference?
cater | adapt |
To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
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.
As a proper noun cater
is .As a verb adapt is
to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.cater
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Did you hire someone to cater our party next week?
- I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
Derived terms
* caterer * cater for * cater toEtymology 2
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Anagrams
* ----adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.