Mutate vs Adapt - What's the difference?
mutate | 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.
In intransitive terms the difference between mutate and adapt
is that mutate is to undergo mutation while adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted.In transitive terms the difference between mutate and adapt
is that mutate is to cause mutation 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 an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.adapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
