Overwrite vs Adapt - What's the difference?
overwrite | adapt |
(computing) To destroy old data by recording new data over it.
To cover in writing.
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 overwrite and adapt
is that overwrite is (computing) to destroy old data by recording new data over it while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.overwrite
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(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.