Crossword clues for adapting
adapting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adapt \A*dapt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adapted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adapting.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See Apt, Adept.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
For nature, always in the right,
To your decays adapts my sight.
--Swift.
Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature.
--Angus.
Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy
persons.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of adapt English)
Usage examples of "adapting".
This important plant holds the soils of riparian habitats and also creates fertile micro-climates, adapting its shape and behavior to the amount of moisture it can get and to the elevation in which it grows, which relates then to the temperature that it must endure.
Europe and North Africa, but not to North America, although it has shown high adaptation in adapting itself to conditions as found in the latter.
Whether natural selection has really thus acted in nature, in modifying and adapting the various forms of life to their several conditions and stations, must be judged of by the general tenour and balance of evidence given in the following chapters.
I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations of life.
It was a cold-blooded lottery that paid off often enough to be worthwhile adapting for.
Europe and thence to Asia and Africa, adapting and reshaping as they went.
They were gradually adapting to living off algae they strained out of seawater.
Separated bands of cousins went their diverging genetic ways, adapting to new challenges, discovering diverse techniques for living.
She had asked him about adapting it to work with a spear-thrower when Mamut came into the tent.
Most of the crew suffered from some degree of nausea while adapting to microgravity, and those especially affected, such as AH Tillman and Alex Dyachkov, are still prone to attacks if they spin around too quickly, or if they find themselves without an absolute reference point.