Restrict vs Adapt - What's the difference?
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To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
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.
Restrict is a related term of adapt.
As verbs the difference between restrict and adapt
is that restrict is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As adjectives the difference between restrict and adapt
is that restrict is (obsolete) restricted while adapt is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.restrict
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Verb
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- If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.
Synonyms
* (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerceAnagrams
* *adapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.