Configured vs Adapted - What's the difference?
configured | adapted |
(configure)
To set up or arrange something in such a way that it is ready for operation for a particular purpose, or to someone's particular liking
(adapt)
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 verbs the difference between configured and adapted
is that configured is past tense of configure while adapted is past tense of adapt.configured
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(head)configure
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(configur)Derived terms
* configurableadapted
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(head)adapt
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(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
