Adapt is a verb that means "to change for a new situation or purpose. Learner's Dictionary mobile search. Learner's Dictionary. Ask the Editor. Shin Chen from China asked for help with the words adept, adapt, and adopt. These three words look and sound almost exactly alike, which is why they are so confusing. I hope this helps. He was adept at using computers.
She has adapted to college life. The teachers adapted the curriculum so that students at all levels could benefit from it. The classrooms have to be adapted for modern teaching practices.
Adapt can be used as an intransitive verb as well. Here, it means to adjust oneself to a new conditions or situation. With the change of management, the employees had to quickly adapt to the change. Children soon adapted to the new culture; it was the elders who had trouble adapting. The child quickly adapted to the new culture. Adopt is derived from the Latin adoptare meaning to take by choice or choose by oneself.
Irrespective of the huge difference between Adoption and Adaptation in their meanings the two words are often confused due to the appearing similarity in their spellings and sounds.
In fact, the word adoption comes from the verb adopt while the word adaptation comes from the verb adapt. The second definition is used to talk about people. When we say that someone adapts him or herself, we mean that the person is changing , adjusting or getting used to a new situation or circumstance. This definition can also be used to talk about companies and organizations.
When companies and organizations change or adjust to something new, they are also adapting. Finally, adapt means to change a book or text and make it suitable for a TV program or movie. These days, many movies are adapted from novels.
The noun of adapt is adaptation. Something that is capable of adapting is adaptable , whereas something that is not capable of adapting is not adaptable or unadaptable. When we adapt something, we don't need to use any preposition after adapt. But when people or institutions adapt themselves, we have to say that they adapt to a specific situation.
The word adopt has two definitions, both related to choosing or accepting something. The most common use of the word is the meaning of taking in a child a child from another family, or a child who has no family and raising it as one's own.
Children who are taken in by families in this way are said to have been adopted. Adopt can also be used to say that you accept or agree to a certain idea. This use of the word is quite formal, and is common in business settings.
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