Enact vs Adapt - What's the difference?
enact | adapt |
(legal) to make (a bill) into law
to act the part of; to play
* Shakespeare
to do; to effect
* Shakespeare
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.
In transitive terms the difference between enact and adapt
is that enact is to do; to effect while adapt is 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.As verbs the difference between enact and adapt
is that enact is to make (a bill) into law while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As a noun enact
is purpose; determination.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.enact
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Verb
(en verb)- I did enact Julius Caesar.
- The king enacts more wonders than a man.
Derived terms
* enactability * enactable * enactably * enaction * enactoradapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.