Transmute vs Adjust - What's the difference?
transmute | adjust |
To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To improve or rectify.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
As verbs the difference between transmute and adjust
is that transmute is while adjust is to modify.As an adjective transmute
is transmuted.transmute
English
Verb
(transmut)- The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
- Did the base metals transmute to gold?
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.}}