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Adapted

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.

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adapted

vb. (en-past of: adapt)

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adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages" [syn: altered]

Usage examples of "adapted".

My ship abuilding out in the construction orbits was human-designed and human-built, but most of the construction, and all of the drive and communications systems, were adapted from Heechee designs.

Congress States were entitled to enact legislation adapted to the local needs of interstate and foreign commerce, that a pilotage law was of this description, and was, accordingly, constitutionally applicable until Congress acted to the contrary to vessels engaged in the coasting trade.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the norms of Aggressor guerrilla warfare were already adapted for instruction of Americans and their allies in real-world unconventional warfare in the 1950s.

The distance would be inconvenient, but they had brought along a pair of walkers adapted to airlessness and low gravity.

As Hillela had adapted her subject to the kind of expectations she sensed available in the alumnae, so she moved on to more exacting forums around the Eastern Seaboard, the Middle West and even California.

Those two handsome adepts of Terpsichore had never met before, and they began an amorous warfare which made me enjoy my supper immensely, because, as he was a fellow artist, Marina assumed towards Baletti a tone well adapted to the circumstances, and very different to her usual manner with other men.

Their long-armed, apish forms seemed adapted to the rough going--the way was almost half steady climbing up, and down.

Bunsen cells, it will be precipitated in an arborescent brittle form, ill adapted for weighing.

The horses, as well as the men, were clothed in complete armor, the joints of which were artfully adapted to the motions of their bodies.

The biologist had adapted an infrared screen and could follow the movements of the jelly-fish.

Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose, and read by a professional elocutionist, not an adherent of the order, Mrs.

Hannah soon enough adapted, taking up with a certain George Madden, an emancipist who had become a wealthy grain merchant, and also acted as a district constable.

The great cantilever bridges have been erected in the same way, and they are specially adapted for erection by building out.

To supply this my deficiency, I henceforth never failed to offer up, each morning and evening, extemporary ones, and which, though puerilely adapted to little impressions or wants, yet flowed the more truly from the heart, and cherished an affectionate, and therefore, truly religious feeling, towards my Almighty Father.

His superior Vulcan eyesight had quickly adapted to the darkness, and he was able to read the faint markings of his tricorder.