Tailored vs Adapted - What's the difference?
tailored | adapted |
Adjusted by a tailor, fitted.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 Made by a tailor.
(tailor)
(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.
As verbs the difference between tailored and adapted
is that tailored is past tense of tailor while adapted is past tense of adapt.As an adjective tailored
is adjusted by a tailor, fitted.tailored
English
Adjective
(head)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*adapted
English
Verb
(head)adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
