Adapting
to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly:
they adapted themselves to the change quickly. he adapted the novel for movies.
to adjust oneself to different conditions, environment, etc.:
to adapt easily to all circ-mstances.
contemporary examples
adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
jonathan tropper: how i write noah charney july 2, 2013
some of this is just a natural part of adapting to the natural climate change that is happening in the arctic.
russia preps its north pole invasion dave majumdar november 7, 2014
in fact, planned parenthood is moving ahead and adapting to cope with the more stringent regulations.
pro-choice texas will not back down emily shire march 27, 2014
she has also been adapting books for the screen and “playing around with making short films.”
evan rachel wood grows up rachel syme june 15, 2009
paul thomas anderson, director of boogie nights and there will be blood, has taken on the task of adapting vice for the screen.
viral video of the day: the ‘inherent vice’ trailer is loopy fun alex chancey september 29, 2014
historical examples
the carriers were doing a certain work, which required brisk movements, and were adapting the song and the refrain to them.
foma gordyeff maxim gorky
don santiago had the secret of adapting himself to the weaknesses of his flock.
mayflower (flor de mayo) vicente blasco ibez
it was a tribute to her power of adapting herself to her environment.
the literary sense e. nesbit
very well, we of genoa and texcoco are adapting to the present situation.
adaptation dallas mccord reynolds
he also succeeded experimentally in adapting his engine to a road carriage.
inventions in the century william henry doolittle
verb
(often foll by to) to adjust (someone or something, esp oneself) to different conditions, a new environment, etc
(transitive) to fit, change, or modify to suit a new or different purpose: to adapt a play for use in schools
v.
early 15c. (implied in adapted) “to fit (something, for some purpose),” from middle french adapter (14c.), from latin adaptare “adjust,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + aptare “join,” from aptus “fitted” (see apt). meaning “to undergo modification so as to fit new circ-mstances” (intransitive) is from 1956. related: adapting.
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