Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!

Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Definition of Adapt
Adapt

Fitted; suited.

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.

Related Definitions:
Adjust, Alter, As, By, Fit, Fitted, Followed, For, Make, New, Or, So, Sometimes, Suit, Suitable, Suited, To, Use


Adapt Quotations

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Nolan Ryan

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
Edwin Louis Cole

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim

Adapt Translations

adapt in Dutch is afstemmen, aanpassen, adapteren
adapt in French is adaptez, aligner, adapter, adaptent, adaptons
adapt in German is anpassen, angleichen
adapt in Italian is uniformare
adapt in Latin is adapto, commodo, accommodo
adapt in Norwegian is tilpasse, bearbeide
adapt in Portuguese is adapte
adapt in Spanish is asimilar, acomodar, adaptar


Quotes   Bookmark and Share     Copyright 2009 BrainyMedia.com