Organize vs Adjust - What's the difference?
organize | adjust |
To (l) in working order.
To (l) in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
* Cranch
To (l) with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
* Ray
(music) To sing in parts.
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To improve or rectify.
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, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
In transitive terms the difference between organize and adjust
is that organize is to furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle while adjust is to settle an insurance claim.organize
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Alternative forms
* organiseVerb
(organiz)- This original and supreme will organizes the government.
- These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.
- to organize an anthem
- (Busby)
Derived terms
* organized * organizer * organization * self-organizeExternal links
* * ----adjust
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Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
