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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjust
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seasonally adjusted figures/rates/data etc (=ones that are changed according to what usually happens at a particular time of year)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
accordingly
▪ This unit auto-senses the mains voltage, and adjusts accordingly, so is most likely to benefit international travellers.
▪ If renal failure persists, the dosage must be adjusted accordingly.
▪ It's a fact that most strikers of his quality learn very early about their strengths and weaknesses, and adjust accordingly.
▪ If you set new tab stops, the table next will adjust accordingly.
▪ The current textual unit size is adjusted accordingly.
▪ The proportion of discounted seats was adjusted accordingly, down to each flight segment.
▪ Turnover, cost of materials sold, net revenues and administrative expenses have been adjusted accordingly.
▪ Such control requires that the oxygen concentration in the blood be accurately measured, and that breathing rate be adjusted accordingly.
seasonally
▪ A case has to be made, therefore, for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers.
▪ All month-on-month comparisons are seasonally adjusted.
▪ The gain in the seasonally adjusted measure was across all areas.
▪ The unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 percent.
▪ The number is not seasonally adjusted.
▪ Some analysts speculated that this factor could add around 75, 000 jobs to the seasonally adjusted figure the department reports tomorrow.
to
▪ Research also suggests that individuals can adjust to, and offset, the changes affecting them in middle and later life.
▪ Will find increased rest difficult to adjust to.
▪ Their attributions go hand in hand with, and must be adjusted to, our attributions of meaning to utterances.
■ NOUN
body
▪ You will need time to adjust to your new body image.
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
change
▪ The receiving cell can adjust itself to changes in the behaviour of the transmitting cell in two ways.
▪ Most of us adjust quickly to the changes that midlife brings.
▪ Unless there is some other underlying reason or hidden illness it will pass in time, as she adjusts to the change.
▪ We are dealing with a dynamic and changing universe and with an environment that adjusts to our changes.
▪ A second reason for isostatic anomalies is that the lithosphere is not capable of adjusting instantaneously to a change in load.
▪ He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change.
▪ Many find it hard to adjust to the change.
▪ The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation.
clock
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
▪ How do you get the light that your body needs to adjust its clock?
▪ That will give us time to adjust our physiological clocks.
difficulty
▪ I would see no difficulty in adjusting the contract before exchange in that way.
▪ Many children have difficulty adjusting to a full day away from home.
▪ But the economy has difficulty adjusting to that idea.
figures
▪ A case has to be made, therefore, for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers.
▪ The adjusted figures are shown in the second column of Table 6.
▪ However, a case can be made out for cyclically adjusting such figures so that the long-term trend of unemployment may be observed.
height
▪ Features include telescopic design to adjust height and ergonomic handle.
▪ Stafford strode to the podium, adjusted the height of the microphone and commenced his talk.
▪ Once they have established this position, they should adjust the height of their screen and chair to suit.
▪ Each subject was able to adjust both the height and the angle of a toilet seat by remote control.
income
▪ Fiscal Welfare: the tax system which adjusts the level of income on which tax is payable through reliefs and allowances.
▪ If adjusted gross income is high enough, large amounts of business expense deductions will be lost under this 2 percent formula.
▪ The full deduction would be available for couples filing jointly with adjusted gross incomes of up to $ 100, 000.
inflation
▪ So the interest rate should also be adjusted for inflation.
▪ Even serial killers get cost-of-living raises if they happen to have a pension adjusted for inflation.
▪ The 1992 equivalent, simply adjusting for inflation, would be £25.50 per child.
▪ Technically, Gingrich is correct that the numbers go up if not adjusted for inflation.
▪ Real disposable incomes of partners-adjusted for inflation and progressive income taxation-have stabilised.
▪ The Watergate investigation received an initial authorization of $ 1. 8 million, adjusted for inflation.
▪ These dividends have provided most of the return on shares, if capital values are adjusted for inflation.
▪ The costs, which were not adjusted for inflation, outstripped median household incomes over the same period by 152 percentage points.
level
▪ Some adjust levels of existing taxes; some involve technical or administrative questions; a few may suggest wholly new forms of taxation.
▪ In this case, parents can adjust the type and level of sensory information they provide.
▪ Fiscal Welfare: the tax system which adjusts the level of income on which tax is payable through reliefs and allowances.
▪ Individual mode allows for separate control of each effect, switching them on or off or adjusting their levels.
life
▪ As we'd adjust to life without him.
▪ In the movie, Reynolds plays a widow sublimely adjusted to retired life in San Francisco.
▪ But this isolates them and stops them adjusting to life in a stepfamily.
▪ Both children have required counseling to adjust to life in the United States, she said.
▪ There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly.
▪ Now 35 and living in Leucadia, Morgan has adjusted to life after the accident.
▪ It was crewed by amateur sailors and one of them says adjusting to ordinary life has been difficult.
▪ The time off from competition enabled the players to regroup emotionally and adjust to life without Young.
policy
▪ The problems are most evident when tariffs have been cut without adjusting other macro-economic policies.
▪ The Party experienced considerable problems in adjusting its policy to one of delaying retirement.
▪ Each area of responsibility requires good preparation and hard work in sharing, adjusting and reaching agreed policies and practices.
position
▪ Carefully, Kirov adjusted his position, his eyes focused on that cracked sink-edge.
▪ As you adjust to your new position, you should also be listening to yourself.
▪ Therefore there are benefits to both liquid and illiquid banks in using the money market to adjust liquidity positions near to its ideal.
▪ Price from about £265 Left: The Verbania garden chair from Rovergarden can adjust to five different positions.
▪ Vologsky squirmed in his flight couch, adjusting his position.
▪ Mystified I adjusted my position so I could see, and dabbled an experimental finger or two in the tank.
price
▪ If they did not adjust prices immediately then market activity would bring about the changes.
▪ This liquidity, and the market maker's ability to adjust prices for news events, is essential for big investors.
▪ It would be surprising for importers to voluntarily adjust their prices upwards.
rate
▪ So the interest rate should also be adjusted for inflation.
▪ The unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, dropped from 3.9 to 3.6 percent.
▪ By far the greatest effect on the crude mortality rates was when mortality rates due to immaturity were adjusted for low birth rate.
▪ The aim is for the rates to be adjusted so that, overall, the employer's national insurance contribution does not rise.
▪ With this theory, exchange rates will adjust so that the same bundle of goods costs the same in all countries.
▪ Conclusion - Perinatal mortality rates should be adjusted for case mix and referral patterns to get a meaningful result.
▪ Both scan width and scan rate can be adjusted over the full frequency range.
▪ Such control requires that the oxygen concentration in the blood be accurately measured, and that breathing rate be adjusted accordingly.
temperature
▪ It can be adjusted to any temperature between 20°C and 99°C, and it can be used in conjunction with all operating modes.
▪ Employees will also be able to adjust the temperature of their offices with individual controls.
▪ The heater had been adjusted to give a temperature of 76°F, and the filter was bubbling away nicely.
▪ Check occasionally and adjust temperature so that the coating does not burn.
▪ The trick was to adjust the temperature in their cages from 27 degrees celsius to 20 degrees over three weeks.
▪ The away mode, as it adjusts the lights and temperature, also activates the security system.
▪ He turned on the shower and waited for the hot water to flow through so that he could adjust the temperature.
time
▪ You will need time to adjust to your new body image.
▪ Moreover, banks must be given time to adjust to changing reserve requirements.
▪ There's no time to adjust mind and muscles for a different pursuit.
▪ There was no time to adjust the seat, however.
▪ The pause gave Edmund Jason time to adjust to his presence.
▪ That will give us time to adjust our physiological clocks.
▪ It's taken me a long time to adjust to that country.
▪ As a result, you have not had enough time to adjust to it.
value
▪ I adjust the value upward to reflect third-party effects through indirect business taxes. 5.
▪ I adjust the value upward from 1967 dollars to 1978 dollars. 6.
weight
▪ The mixture is coagulated and titanium dioxide is added to adjust the weight.
▪ The trick comes in adjusting the weights on hidden layers.
▪ A total of 29 loads has produced an adjusted weight of 600t.
▪ The neuron will be trained by adjusting only the two weights W1 and W2.
▪ Total energy content should be adjusted to obtain weight loss in obese subjects.
▪ The objective is to adjust weights so that the error in the output layer is reduced.
▪ Back propagation algorithms first adjust weights connected to the output layer.
▪ Only the winner is permitted an output, and only the winner plus its neighbors are permitted to adjust their weights.
■ VERB
allow
▪ It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood.
▪ Exercise will raise your body temperature, allowing you to adjust to your new circadian rhythm.
▪ This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette.
▪ It allows speakers to adjust their messages to their receivers' response.
▪ Delgard paused at the top of the stairs, allowing his eyes to adjust to the poor light.
▪ You need an active revision system which allows you to adjust your knowledge to different questions.
▪ It allows you to adjust the carburettor heat to prevent induction icing.
▪ This allows a court to adjust its decision according to the other party involved.
help
▪ Pray that the Lord would help Robert adjust to his new school.
▪ Fathers have few supports to help them adjust to a more active role with their wives and babies.
▪ Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning.
▪ Manufactured by Austin House, these little gizmos are designed to help adjust on-board air pressure to the eardrums.
▪ These can help many people to adjust more happily to the changes retirement brings about in their lives.
▪ Four Winds had not helped Margarett to adjust to a life without work or a household without children.
▪ It would help them adjust to the culture and tell them when they're being abused and how to answer back.
need
▪ You will need time to adjust to your new body image.
▪ How do you get the light that your body needs to adjust its clock?
▪ These attribute values will need to be adjusted following the event.
▪ The tops of the curtains needed adjusting.
▪ In this respect, Figure 2 lists the variety of management practices that may need adjusting.
▪ Several practice laps are necessary to determine what needs adjusting and what parts must be replaced.
▪ The tension disc at the top of the yarn mast will need adjusting for the thread.
▪ Longer class periods and block schedules provide the flexibility needed to adjust teaching styles and organize field trips.
try
▪ She would then try to adjust her flight path to the fist by altering direction into the wind.
▪ She plays Beth, a transplanted Los Angeles teen trying to adjust to her new life in a tiny Washington state hamlet.
▪ Jack allowed the feeling of rest to come up on him slowly, trying to adjust himself to the lack of fear.
▪ I tried smoothing and adjusting my clothes.
▪ Meantime Wentworth members try to adjust to new faces and new ideas.
▪ I was trying hard to adjust to this fact but finding it difficult.
▪ Civvies is a fictionalised account of ex-paratroopers trying to adjust to civilian life.
▪ I tried to adjust my view of Topaz's death to what he'd just told me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ""You don't have to come,'' Lewis said, as he adjusted his tie in a mirror.
Adjust the heat so that the soup doesn't boil.
▪ I don't think the color control on this TV is properly adjusted.
▪ It's amazing how quickly kids adjust.
▪ Seat belts adjust to fit short or tall drivers.
▪ The amount of any of these ingredients can be adjusted according to your taste.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All month-on-month comparisons are seasonally adjusted.
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
▪ The ambulance man adjusts the flow of oxygen into the mask.
▪ The method used for the adjusting process is called the learning rule.
▪ The Watergate investigation received an initial authorization of $ 1. 8 million, adjusted for inflation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjust

Adjust \Ad*just"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjusting.] [OF. ajuster, ajoster (whence F. ajouter to add), LL. adjuxtare to fit; fr. L. ad + juxta near; confused later with L. ad and justus just, right, whence F. ajuster to adjust. See Just, v. t. and cf. Adjute.]

  1. To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

  2. To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.

    Adjusting the orthography.
    --Johnson.

  3. To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

  4. To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.

    Syn: To adapt; suit; arrange; regulate; accommodate; set right; rectify; settle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adjust

late 14c., ajusten, "to correct, remedy;" reborrowed by c.1600 in sense "arrange, settle, compose," from Middle French adjuster, Old French ajouter "to join" (12c.), from Late Latin adiuxtare "to bring near," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + iuxta "next," related to iungere "to join" (see jugular).\n

\nInfluenced by folk etymology derivation from Latin iustus "just, equitable, fair." Meaning "to arrange (something) so as to conform with (a standard or another thing)" is from 1660s. Insurance sense is from 1755. Meaning "to get used to" first recorded 1924. Related: Adjusted; adjusting.

Wiktionary
adjust

vb. (context transitive English) To modify.

WordNet
adjust
  1. v. alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" [syn: set, correct]

  2. place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table" [syn: align, aline, line up] [ant: skew]

  3. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" [syn: conform, adapt]

  4. make correspondent or conformable; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"

  5. decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim

Usage examples of "adjust".

It was only natural that once everyone had had time to adjust to the tragic void created by his departure, they would turn to that one person who could so ably fill the gap, that one person whose standards of excellence were above reproach, that one person whom they could rely upon to continue the noble traditions of the fair-Irina Stoddard!

Hotel, and has been attended by the most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease, and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly successful.

He followed immediately after, covering her with his naked body, then immediately adjusted himself, side to side and up and down so that his chest hairs abraded her nipples and his erection rested between her legs.

I had adjusted them for maximum acuity at distances ranging from two inches to five feet.

The confirmation of that truth becomes irresistible when we see how reason and conscience, with delighted avidity, seize upon its adaptedness alike to the brightest features and the darkest defects of the present life, whose imperfect symmetries and segments are harmoniously filled out by the adjusting complement of a future state.

He adjusted his aerator more comfortably and climbed into the waiting truck.

Meanwhile, he busied himself adjusting his microscope and test-tubes and getting the agar slides ready for examination.

Even Signora Strega-Borgia had joined in, apparently overcoming whatever it was that had ailed her and devouring course after course of Tituss birthday banquet, badly prepared by Marie Bain and surreptitiously adjusted by Mrs McLachlan.

In the dingy little dining-room of the Albergo Monte Gazza, a mountain inn miles from anywhere, situation arduous for walkers and pointless for cars, tariff humanely adjusted to the purses of the penniless, his poise and finish made him a grotesque.

He allowed his eyes to adjust, then gazed at the serene form of the alchemist for a minitix.

Master Algologist Dephliny muttered, adjusting the microswitch implanted above his left occipital arch to quell the shaking in his right hand.

The speech also informed the house that her majesty had ordered the return of her minister to the court of Persia, and announced that the differences which had arisen between Spain and Portugal about the execution of a treaty concluded by those powers in 1835, for regulating the navigation of the Douro had been amicably adjusted.

That told the LSO that he had the meatball in sight, confirmed that his aircraft was a Tomcat so that the arrestor cables could be properly adjusted for the hurtling weight of the aircraft, and that his fuel was reading five thousand pounds.

She adjusted her hat, an open velveteen circlet clogged with stiff net veiling, which had been spun askew by the collision with her husband.

Amys and Bair adjusted their shawls and frowned, their irritation beginning to turn to concern.