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adapt

verb
/əˈdæpt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aptos Latin aptus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin apiō ▲ Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin aptō Latin adaptōder. Middle English *adapten English adapt From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

  1. derived from adaptāre
  2. inherited from *adapten✻

Definitions

  1. To make suitable

    To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

  2. To fit by alteration

    To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.

    • to adapt a story for the stage
    • to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture

  3. To make by altering or fitting something else

    To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.

    • to bring out a play adapted from the French
    • a word of an adapted form
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

      • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    2. Adapted

      Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

      • This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.

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Derived

adaptable, adaptate, adaptation, adaptative, adapter, adaption, adaptitude, adaptly, adaptness, adaptogen, adaptor, coadapt, counteradapt, deadapt, maladapt, misadapt, nonadapting, osmoadapt, overadapt, preadapt, readapt, unadapt

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adapt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adapt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at adapt

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA